Mexico the new dental destination: Americans flock to border town that takes bite out of high prices found in U.S. clinics

The Chicago Tribune reports:

The sales pitches start just a few steps after you cross the border into Mexico. They come in the same half-whispers familiar to tourists who have been offered time-shares and T-shirts.

"Excuse me, sir," a Mexican man politely asks in accented English. "Are you looking for a good dentist?"

"Got one," a silver-haired American says, not even breaking stride.

This is the kind of commerce that has turned a sleepy village on the U.S. border into the latest boomtown of medical tourism, the practice of traveling abroad to get medical care. From face-lifts in Costa Rica to heart surgery in India, medical tourism has become a $60 billion enterprise by one estimate.

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