How You Too Can Get a Face Lift in Thailand and Not Break the Bank

The state of health care being what it is in the US today, you might want to consider coming to Thailand on a medical vacation. In the last few years, this has become very popular as Americans realize they can get the same quality of care they receive in the US for about one tenth of the price. Included in the money it costs is also a round-trip ticket to Bangkok, and often a week's vacation on a top Thai beach to recuperate after surgery. Medical tourism in Thailand is the 'in thing'.

To give you an idea of the average cost of medical treatment in Bangkok, here are some of the treatments I or some of my friends' have experienced, and also what we paid for them.

I haven't had any pricey work done but I have had several dental treatments. A root canal at a Thai dentist, which was a higher standard than my dentist in the US with all the latest equipment , cost me a little over $100. A similar root canal I had in the US five years ago was $945. The only difference in care? I waited for over an hour in the US dentist office before I was taken in to see the dentist. In Thailand, the receptionist showed me into the dentist the minute I arrived.

A friend broke his collar bone in Bangkok when he fell out of a tuk-tuk. (Yes it is possible to injure yourself in a tuk-tuk). A trip to the hospital, an appointment with a doctor, x-rays and a cast plus a follow up visit to have the cast removed was an amazing $132. Similar treatment in the US would easily be between $3,000 and $5,000.

One of my mother's friends recently had a chin lift in the US. The cost of the surgery was almost $8,000. In Bangkok at Bumrungrad International Hospital, recently named the top hospital in all of Southeast Asia, a chin lift is around $1,600. Eye lifts are about the same.