2025, issue 30

Answering your questions on dental tourism

Jo-Anne Taylor
ByJo-Anne Taylor
Published21 April 2025
What do you need to consider when managing patients who plan to go abroad for treatment - or have returned after being treated overseas?

...dealing with a patient who has been treated abroad is no different to a patient who has previously received care anywhere else.

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This page was correct at publication on 21/04/2025. Any guidance is intended as general guidance for members only. If you are a member and need specific advice relating to your own circumstances, please contact one of our advisers.

Jo-Anne Taylor
Dento-legal adviser

B.Ch.d (Hons) MSc, PG Cert Medical Education, PG. Cert Medical Aesthetics, SFHEA. Jo qualified from Leeds Dental Institute in 1991 and spent 16 years providing general dental services in the UK and Australia. She has worked in private and NHS practice as well as in the Community Dental Services. Jo is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has held several teaching posts in Yorkshire and more recently in Hampshire, where among other roles she worked as Associate Head (Education) at the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy. Jo joined the DDU as a telephone adviser in 2020 and began working as a dento-legal adviser in 2021.

Answering your questions on dental tourism