Travelling abroad to obtain a dental treatment is safe, although it can depend on the location and sometimes the type of treatment. Firstly, patients who consider a dental treatment abroad should think about whether their local dental practises are “safe” and what this “safe” actually means. Does it mean better materials, qualification of dentists or better equipped clinics? Generally, treatments carried out within EU are of good and very good quality as all dental practises within EU have to comply with strict health & safety regulations. Clinics in other parts of the world, including those in developing countries, are often not required to meet similar standards. Therefore, theoretically the standard should be lower. However, it is not always the case as clinics that care for foreign patients usually provide better services than ones that care for local patients. This is due to the fact, that in order to attract a foreign visitor, the clinic needs to present their credentials and show that they meet the highest standards required for modern dentistry.Dental travelling has existed for centuries and it has only become recently that the UK or Irish media took an interest in it. The main reason for travelling abroad to have teeth done has always been the cost. Dental treatments in countries such us Poland are much lower compared to the UK prices. Additionally, dentistry is a relatively safe profession, where complications happen extremely rarely (unlike some types of plastic surgery where complications are much more likely to happen). Even in extremely rare cases where a patients needs to return to the country of the treatment (i.e. Poland or Spain where dental costs are lower) for some adjustments, the overall cost of the treatment, including the travel costs, is still much lower than in majority of Western European countries. Such cases, however, happen very rarely - on average 0.3% of patients return to execute a guarantee on treatments performed in Poland (source PMS). It is also worth noting that adjustments after treatments happen in all clinics around the world, not only in practises that cater for foreign patients. All in all, dentistry abroad is safe. If it wasn’t, tens of thousands of British and Irish patients wouldn’t go overseas every year to obtain affordable dental treatments