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Dear Dr Garita: I would just like to say I am absolutely thrilled with the dental work you did for me. I have never experienced such care and consideration from a dentist. You spent many hours perfecting my teeth,even until the very last day,you gave 100% to your craft and artistic judgement. In the space of 10 days I emerged with an amazing new smile,thanks to all your hard work. Even with the amount of work you did,at no time was I in pain ,except for some discomfort.! I traveled half way around the World from England for you to work your magic ,and it was,without exception, the best thing I've ever done..! I would'nt hesitate to do it again. I would never get such care and attention in England.! Should anyone wish to contact me for reference, I am more than happy to oblige on happitalk@blueyonder.co.uk my sincere good wishes and thankyou again, ROD STARR. Estimado Doctor Garita: Reciba desde NY un carinoso saludo en union de su familia. Le quiero dar mis mas sinceras gracias por el trabajo dental tal maravilloso, no he tenido molestias y toda mi gente me dice que se me ven fenomenales. Un saludo muy especial a tu hijo el Doctor Jose, a las bellas Margot, Carolina, Susy y a Patricia que gracias por el delicioso cafe. Gracias otra vez y que Dios le bendiga esas manos maravillosas. De seguro que los visitare en mi proxima visita a Tiquicia. . My dental situation is very good ever sinceI paid a visit to your clinic. I would like you to know that you have my permishon to use my case for any promo that you like if there any way I can help your practice. Please let me know and I will be back for any futher dental work. Dr. Garita, January 30, 2006 Unlike many other dental patients, I didn't need crowns or bridges or root canals. October 25, 2005 I just wanted to say thankyou again for the fine job all of you did with me when I was down there. I'm very happy with the results and I have to say I actually had fun. The staff was quite attentive and relaxed. I hope to see you again for all my dentistry needs. Benjamin Banks June 1, 2005 Dear Dr. Garita, I just got back from my first dentist visit since I have seen you last September. Now, I have to admit I was a little bit nervous about this first check-up after all the work you have done. Anyway, this is what my dentist said "Oh, what a wonderful job! If you keep this up you will never have a problem again!" I told him about you and that you did all this work in about 10 days. He couldn't believe it. I also made a little
career change. In January I became a Realtor
and I was not afraid to put a big smile on for
my business card. I really can't thank you enough.
I still plan on coming some time by the end
of the year to have the two crowns in the front
replaced. My husband will come along to have
a couple of fillings replaced and to have his Thanks again and say "hello" to the girl's in the office.Sincerely, Tanja Sherin October 5, 2004 The amazing doctors Garita!!!
There are not enough positive adjectives to
describe these incredible doctors. I recently
had extensive dental work
done by this wonderful, caring family unit of
dentists. Dr. Jose V. Garita was my
primary dentist. I am not the best patient,
but Dr. Jose was always kind,
gentle, and patient. His professionalism was
exceptional. As a result of
his dedication to perfection, my teeth are absolutely
beautiful. I could not
be more pleased. I am 54 years old and my teeth
look like they belong to a 20 Celeste M. Fehlig Glad
to hear from you! everything is fine I could
not be happier. My teeth
are
wonderful I was very surprised to receive so
many complements. I must
admit I
was a little nervous about the look but now
I can't think of what I would
do if
I had the teeth I had before. Thank you sooooooo
Much! I will be
returning to
Costa Rica next year I hope to see you soon Miami,
Florida Samantha Thurman March
29th 2004 Friday,
March 19 Costa Rica
Dentist - Saved me US$18,000 As
Dental Prices Skyrocket World-Wide Thousands
Save By Turning to Dentists in Paradise. I was sitting in a plush leather operating chair in the office of a wealthy Florida dentist, his waiting room filled with anxious patients, reception manned by three women working phones and billing. In came the dentist, gray-haired, impeccably dressed, Gucci shoes and shirt, French tie matching his convertible Mercedes outside. He opened his hands wide flashed a gold Rolex, gave a little bow and with a hunter’s smile, asked “How can I help you?” I didn’t know
yet but he would set me off on a journey of
thousands of miles and bring me to rain forests
and volcanoes. I realized now in Florida the years had taken their toll. I needed a lot of work. For the next hour and a half the US dentist took x-rays and went over all the work I needed. Finally, with the help of an assistant, he began tallying up the cost on a large calculator with big bright green numbers. The total came to an unbelievable $24,000. My wife and I were aghast. I said we’d think it over but could he please help me first with the pain in my tooth – the reason I’d come in the first place? Could I have a temporary filling so I wouldn’t be in pain all weekend? He checked his Rolex, frowned and said sorry, there was no time. He wanted $24,000 up front – this job was too big for payments – and yet he wouldn’t take the time to stop my pain? I decided to look elsewhere – maybe a foreign country and I would use the magic of the internet. I‘d heard somewhere that dentists were very inexpensive and good in Costa Rica, modern Mexico and South Africa. I had bad memories of Mexican dentists. South Africa was too far away. I’d try Costa Rica. Using a search engine on the internet called www.google.com, I put in the key words, ‘implants and Costa Rica and dentists’. In a one-sixth of a second search the internet revealed that: ‘cosmetic/restorative dentistry is a major industry in the small Central American country, that each year thousands of men and women visit San Jose, the capital, taking advantage of the low-cost, high-quality care provided by Costa Rica’s cosmetic surgeons and dentists, that more than 14 percent of all visitors to Costa Rica come there for some kind of medical care’. Featured prominently was someone known as Dr. Mario Garita, a ‘world-renowned expert in implants’ and reconstructive dental surgery'. It said he was trained at the University of Miami. But was the internet telling the truth? I spoke to Garita on his cell phone. In perfect English he told me to send my x-rays and he’d get back to me with a price. Was he really as
good as he said? I bought two affordable $354 round-trip tickets on American Airlines from Miami to Costa Rica and set out with my wife into the unknown world of foreign dentistry. Dr. Garita arranged for us to stay at a place called Villa Plenitude, run by a Canadian, Ron Blache-Fraser. I had visited Fraser’s website and his place looked good. Once in Costa Rica, we discovered his recovering hotel was far from downtown San Jose, perched on the edge of a high canyon with a river far below. The rooms were nice, the view, magnificent, the food great. Next morning the Canadian drove us to San Jose and we entered a small security-barred and gated building on a busy street and climbed to the second floor. There was only one girl at the desk and just one person in the waiting room, Walter Ferrari, an American from Texas. While I waited for Dr. Garita to arrive I questioned him carefully. His wife Daisy had been here before and had eleven implants at a ridiculously low price. He smiled and showed me a movie star mouth and told me I’d just love Dr. Garita. Garita was an implant specialist; his father, a pioneer root canal specialist in Central America and a younger brother in charged of the cosmetic reconstructions. When he arrived Dr. Garita flashed a dazzling smile to my wife and took us into his office. We sat under a wall of diplomas showing he’d indeed graduated from the University of Miami Medical Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital specializing in implant surgery and oral reconstruction. His operating room contained exactly the same modern tech expensive equipment used by the ‘Rolex watch’ dentist in Florida. Garita, after taking his own high tech digital x-rays began work on me right away. He started by making impressions of what teeth I still had, then went confidently through my mouth like a landscaper clearing a field, removing my failing crowns and bridges and going after tooth decay. Then he put in temporary teeth. Dr. Garita was totally relaxed and supremely confident. We came to his office for three days in a row then he told us to take a holiday in Costa Rica and come back in three more days. We changed hotels to be near his office and ended up at the romantic Las Cumbres Inn, a magnificent villa on a mountain-side overlooking all of San Jose and two volcanoes. It was run by Elke Arends, a lovely German-born Costa Rican, who specializes in hosting recovering surgical patients. Next we hired a driver and van for $75 US per day who took us across the country 100 miles away on the adventurous road to Arenal Volcano. We sat back and relaxed as he dealt with winding mountain curves and soaring straight-aways past coffee plantations in the breath-taking countryside for which Costa Rica is famous. On this rare day huge active Arenal volcano, which is usually covered by steam and clouds, could be clearly seen. At its bottom was the famed Tabacon hot springs; twelve pools and several waterfalls, supplied by millions of gallons of rushing water heated by the volcano. We joined hundreds of visitors from every country in rainforest-surrounded hot pools and waterfalls. As we soaked in the steaming waters, years of tension melted away. We left at dusk and
began the scary drive up to our hotel Arenal
Lodge. Just getting there was an adventure. We had a romantic dinner and annoyed a family of retired American dentists by telling them why we’d come to Costa Rica. But when we told them the price we were paying they were amazed. They said the same work back home in Pennsylvania, would cost $40,000. Next morning the volcano was completely covered by clouds. We breakfasted and watched in amazement as hotel workers placed fresh fruit on high stands for brightly colored birds. A large fur-covered raccoon-like animal came out of the jungle and begged for fruit, then ran off to hide and eat under the hotel. We walked off on a nature tour and wound our way down the mountain path which we had been warned to stay on because of poisonous snakes. We made our way to a screened building housing lush plants and hundreds of exotic butterflies. We went horseback riding in the rainforest with other guests, ducking under trees and wearing ponchos to keep dry. Too soon, our driver was there to take us on the return trip to San Jose. In his office Dr. Garita removed my temporary teeth and proudly brought in the newly-prepared crowns and bridges like a doctor holding a new-born baby. He set them one at a time inside my mouth. They fit perfectly and were much brighter than my old teeth. The big moment came when Dr. Garita presented us with the agreed-upon bill for his services. I’d had nine crowns, two root canals, one extraction, two bridges and two implants. And the total cost was less than $6,000. I’d saved $18,000. We’d had a wonderful vacation and I’d returned with a mouthful of great teeth. The big test came when I visited my own local dentist. He told me up front that in the United States the molded teeth alone would cost more than the entire dental work done in Costa Rica. Then I opened wide and got his verdict. “This is the most magnificent dental work I have ever seen,” he declared. I left smiling brightly and feeling very clever. I had to get home right away and brush my teeth *This article originally appeared in the Charlotte Observer newspaper.
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