Beyond Boundaries

What’s the price of a smile? The risks of ‘dental tourism’

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Travelling overseas for cut-price dental work - gleaming white veneers and 'reality TV'-style overlays - is increasingly common.

However, hundreds of UK dentists have reported treated patients with serious complications after they've returned home from receiving cosmetic dentistry.

In this edition of Beyond Bourdaries, the head of Aberdeen's Institute for Dentistry Prof Khaled Khalaf shares his thoughts on risks and considerations of so called 'Turkey teeth' with Tamsin and Swathi .

Learn more about studying at the University of Aberdeen, and find a prospectus here.