Fuad Husain Akbar, Fridawaty Rivai, Andi Zulkifli Abdullah, Abdul Hair Awang, Yoris Adi Maretta
More often than not, privileged people from developing countries travel to developed countries for medical care purposes. However this trend is starting to shift in the other direction meaning more people from developed countries are traveling to developing countries for a better quality care but with a cheaper rate. These medical tourists search for variety of medical services classified as follows preventive care, operative care (e.g. knee, eye, and hip surgery), dental care (crown, dental bleaching, and dental implant), cosmetic surgery (e.g. tummy tuck/abdominoplasty and liposuction), organ, tissue, and cell transplant (e.g. stem cell, organ transplant), and cardiology.1 Dental tourism is one of the services that can be found in medial tourism which characterized by medical tourists accessing dental care provided by other country in a cheaper rate compared to their own.2 Media‘s portrayal of medical tourism, including dental tourism, suggest that this practice enables patient and provider to choose between many location and environment which has different systems to regulate or choose different treatment and working experience.3,4. © IJSTR 2020.
Department Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia; Department of Hospital Management, Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia; Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia; Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia; Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
