anyone have experience with Tijuana, Mexico dental care?

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ontheroadagain

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I read Bob's great blog posting on dentists near Yuma but it's a bit difficult to get there if you have to fly in and rent a car. I found I could fly into San Diego for $240 and take a $5 train to the Tijuana border. Just looking for someone who has been into that area of Mexico<span class="size20 Helvetica20" style="color: #b91806; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><br></span>
 
Not since the 60's but I have been in many border towns and I think you would do just fine doing that. The thing about TJ is that it is just huge and has enormous cross-border traffic. The wait coming back may be a long time but don't know that for sure. I would be comfortable crossing over at any border town in the daytime. If you are concerned about safety just do some online research and find the dentist you want to go to...some of the more established clinics will send someone to meet you at the border and take you back to the entry. Just be careful and be sure who you are getting in the car with...<br><br>Good luck,<br>Bri
 
Thanks Bri<br>I am nervous about safety but agree that if you are alert and stay close to the border area it is safe enough in the day time. I am more concerned with picking a competent dentist without getting scammed or even worse a disease or serious infection. I am hoping to find someone who has been there and can recommend an dentist office.
 
Yep, I get that and I hope you can find it. A thought is to check with the BajaNomads forum and there may be something either on there or someone who will answer you if you ask....<br><br>Frankly I think that given the opportunity, most folks would choose a smaller border crossing to get care at. Otherwise it can be very overwhelming...but there must be lots who do go to TJ....<br>bri
 
I cannot give specifics on dentist in TJ but can offer some general observations that perhaps might help. <br>Tijuana is a funny place. Funny as in interesting and diverse. I've spent quite a bit of time there when I was stationed in CA (USACE) though it was some years back. It's a huge city, gov stats say 1.3 million inhabitants though I'd guess that conservative with a huge flux in population. <br><br>The main centro area is pretty garish, devoted to tourists and the (ahem) SD naval base. There are outlying areas though that are far different. One is Los Playas de Tijuana, the beach area. Can't say about today but it used to be a real gem, totally underused and fairly pristine. (yes pristine, a word not often associated with TJ) I would often go there and watch most of the tourist beach crowd from Cali fly by on their way further south to Rosarita and Ensenada. <br><br>Also near the beaches is the medical district. There is a vibrant alternative medicine community happening in TJ. I was pleasantly surprised by the seemingly routine amount of treatment going on there, the variety of clinics, types of treatment and the steady flow of patients from the north. It was interesting that people found treatments there either not available in the US, sanctioned by the AMA, or at a greatly reduced fee structure. A side bonus that I availed myself of when there was several surprisingly good health food stores in that area that offered real food at reasonable prices.<br><br>I hope this in some way helps. <br>PS: Sometimes after I got to know the score there, I would not drive into MX and on those occasions I would to drive to Chula Vista, reasonably park my rig at an RV sales and storage that was one block from the border trolley, walk across the border and take one of the many inexpensive alternatives to get around, IE: taxi, combi van or route bus.
 
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