Karl Loren's Dental Report

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Published 26 August 2007

The dental office was highly recommended to us by a good friend -- she has gone there for years. I can now also recommend the place as clean, modern equipment, capable dentists and staff and amazingly lower prices than in the US.

I did not get a card for each of the dentists practicing there -- they are all part of the same clinic called "Odontologia integral de Mexico."

The head dentist speaks excellent English -- the other dentists speak enough to be understood.

We contacted them through a phone number in San Diego, 619 (819-8671) This number can make an appointment for you and also patch through to the office in Mexico. The office is about one mile inside the border of Mexico - just across the US/Mexican border at Tijuana.

We arrived there on August 22nd, had an initial visit/exam, then stayed in one of the many Tijuana hotels (The Grand Hotel at $140 per night), then stayed for one more night to get more dental work -- left for home on Friday, August 24th.

The address in Tijuana is not easy for people not familiar with the language or the town. However, one time when we had already been there, and drove off for a hotel, we had trouble finding it again. I paid a taxi to lead us to the place and that was easy for him to find and for us to follow -- it cost $7 plus tip.

I had an finial exam by a dentist who told me what she felt I needed -- about 6 cracked crowns to be replaced, two root canals and one three-tooth bridge. This would have cost cost up to $10,000 or more in the US. I don't know the final cost there, but it will be less than $3000.

She said, however, that she would not want to do the crown replacements until I had a "deep cleaning" since she could see the gum problem. Doing the crown repair over infection not handled could endanger the integrity of the new crowns. I accepted that. Some other work could be done without the deep cleaning.

I explained to her, then to the head dentist and then to the periodontist what I wanted to do -- no disagreement -- so I did NOT get the deep cleaning, but also they will wait for my return in four months to do the crown replacements. I got a partial root canal, and an appointment to return for the completion of that root and possibly the second root canal.

The periodontist measured the depth of pockets around each of my teeth and the scanned image of that official dental record is below. He seemed more than willing to help me establish a bench mark for change and a natural remedy to the common gum problem so many people have. I showed him this web site and showed him the exact page here my journal is published -- told him that I would be writing just what I am now writing, and include his name (C. D. Juan Jose Figueroa, Parodoncia / Gum Disease)on the web. He seemed pleased at all this and I expect he will be reading these pages.

Dentists practicing at this Clinic:

C. D. Juan Jose Fiogueroa
Parodoncia / Gum Disease

C. D. Veronica Dias A.
Endodencia / Root Canal

C. D. Valeria Souque
Orthodoncista

C. D. Alan Martinez Perez
Cirujano Dentista

C. D. J. Alberto Florian de la C.
Cosmetic / Biodenistry

Dr. Paul Zuniga Flores
Odontopediatra

C. D. Benjamin Arechiga
Maxillofacial Surgeon - Implants

(I believe there were a few other dentists practicing there, but I did not get all the cards.)

Official Dental Report on the status of Karl Loren's Gum disease on August 22, 2007.

Not yet scanned -- soon.