Living in Thailand

[Traffic777]

What's the best way to go about renting a 2bdrm place in Pattaya for a month?

Agencies, driving around or a word of mouth?

Thank you

[RCA Knight]

I used to do my dental in Thailand years ago, but recent years dental in Thailand is getting much more expensive than many countries with very good private health and dental care.

Now I do all my dental in Brazil, in Sao Paulo mostly, which has a super super health care and dental care in the private sector and cheaper than Thailnad as well. Agree that Hungary is popular with dental work and has super dental care and cheaper than Thailand too. I also heard India has great and cheap dentistry in private sector. I have known quite some people travel there and do the dental work at the same times.

[Tiger 888]

The Dental Hospital owned and run by the King's personal dentist - Sukhumvit soi 49 across from Villa Supermaket. IMHO, if a little more expensive, the best in BKK, if not Thailand. Yes, they do manual cleaning, or at least did 4 months ago when I had my last clean. I've had a couple of root canals and crowns done there and am impressed by the follow-up service in which they check to make sure that everything is ok at no additional charge.

To get there - go up soi 49 to the end, where the road splits and go left and then right. The hospital is diagonally across the road, just past Villa.

I had a root canal treatment done there. Very very professional, but very expensive too. For less than double the price you can get this done in Germany, in Hungary for half the price. And the Hungarians are famous for good dentists. Some Austrians go there for treatments they have to pay themselves, whereas in Austria the health insurance would have paid it.

There is a very good German dentist in Pattaya, who even has his own lab to make his own crowns, at half the price of the Bangkok Dental Hospital.
Details available via PM if needed.

[LittleBigMan]

OTH, Daddy07,

Thanks for the tip. I will be returning to LOS in mid February and certainly check out both suggestion in Bkk and Pattaya.

Thanks, LBM

[Daddy07]

To get to my question! Does anyone know or can suggest a place in Pattaya, if not Bangkok is O.K. that can direct me to a Dentist that is still using the old method of cleaning by using the old pick? and finish the job with a good old fashion polishing of the teeth? Thanks, LBM

Hi LBM,

I've recently made an appointment with a dentist at the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital recommended by a member of the Pattaya Expat's club. I'll be there in February and will get a few crowns, restorations, cleaning, and possibly the laser teeth whitening procedure at prices quoted about 1/4 the cost of the same services in the US. I'm not sure, but I believe the dentists at the new hospital will offer a higher level of service than a sole proprietor dentist. There are several dentists on the staff practicing in every speciality. Here is a link listing them all. http://www.dentalpattaya.com/dentalcenter/ You could call the center and ask them to recommend a dentist who will clean your teeth the way you like.

Daddy

[Old Thai Hand]

traveler1234,

good to hear from you. the work that i have been receiving from apc in the past has been great. had a bad tooth ache a while back thought that i needed a root canal but after he took a x-ray and examine me told me that the tooth was cracked and we decided to remove it 500 baht. i'm happy with his decision and his work but the every six month cleaning i like to have i have not happy. these days the new method is to use a high speed disc to remove the plague and the speed is the problem it goes so fast that if it pressed too hard it is extremely sensitive to the patient. i prefer the old fashion method where they take the time to scrape each tooth. it takes longer but less sensitive.

still looking for a good dentist that cleans the old fashion way and polishes the tooths to get rid of all that coffee i like to drink!

i'll give b-hospital a visit next time to check their method. thanks for the tip!
lbm

the dental hospital owned and run by the king's personal dentist - sukhumvit soi 49 across from villa supermaket. imho, if a little more expensive, the best in bkk, if not thailand. yes, they do manual cleaning, or at least did 4 months ago when i had my last clean. i've had a couple of root canals and crowns done there and am impressed by the follow-up service in which they check to make sure that everything is ok at no additional charge.

to get there - go up soi 49 to the end, where the road splits and go left and then right. the hospital is diagonally across the road, just past villa.

[LittleBigMan]

traveler1234,

good to hear from you. the work that i have been receiving from apc in the past has been great. had a bad tooth ache a while back thought that i needed a root canal but after he took a x-ray and examine me told me that the tooth was cracked and we decided to remove it 500 baht. i'm happy with his decision and his work but the every six month cleaning i like to have i have not happy. these days the new method is to use a high speed disc to remove the plague and the speed is the problem it goes so fast that if it pressed too hard it is extremely sensitive to the patient. i prefer the old fashion method where they take the time to scrape each tooth. it takes longer but less sensitive.

still looking for a good dentist that cleans the old fashion way and polishes the tooths to get rid of all that coffee i like to drink!

i'll give b-hospital a visit next time to check their method. thanks for the tip!
lbm

[Traveler1234]

My crown popped out on flight from HK to Bkk. When I landed, went over to Bumingrad Hp, dental section (3rd floor I think) as a walk in patient and got great service. Doc spent over 30 minutes cleaning crown, my tooth and cemented back in....less than $30.

[LittleBigMan]

LBM, has been using the Dentist in Pattaya on Soi 5, APC for the last two years. From previous work ( not cleaning ) I have had very good results and certainly the price is right. I'm one that take very good care of my choppers but in November I scheduled a cleaning but wasn't happy with the technique. As many dentist in the states has turn to using a power instrutment to do the cleaning so has the dentist at APC. Now I'm a person that has a high pain threshold but during the cleaning in several area's particularly in the front lower it was very, very, very, very sensitive I felt like Dustin Hoffman in the movie Marathon Man and I jump a few times.

To get to my question! Does anyone know or can suggest a place in Pattaya, if not Bangkok is O.K. that can direct me to a Dentist that is still using the old method of cleaning by using the old pick? and finish the job with a good old fashion polishing of the teeth?

Thanks,
LBM

[Dinghy]

I thought "pump story" had some sexual connotations, but it's all rather mechanical, isn't it?

<ducking and running....>

INCOMING!!

[Retired Army]

RA,

what passion and emotion ?
Sorry, but I don't think the "pump story" has any potential for the Fight Club

What, you don't recognize sarcasm?

[The Traveler]

With all the passion and emotion this topic envokes maybe we should move it to the fight club where we can slug it out.

RA,

what passion and emotion ?
Sorry, but I don't think the "pump story" has any potential for the Fight Club

[Meaty]

(Compiled by Bangkokpost.com from Agencies)

A Swiss man was arrested on charges of insulting the monarchy by painting over images of His Majesty the King, police said today.

Jufer Oliver Rudolf, 57, was caught Tuesday on surveillance cameras spray painting over portraits of His Majesty with black paint at several locations in Chiang Mai, police Lt. Col Kittiphan Kamwan said. He was detained Wednesday night, and faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted, the police said.

Pol Lt Col Kittiphan said Rudolf claimed he was drunk.

The military has launched a separate investigation into the incident, suggesting Rudolf may have been hired by someone opposed to the Sept 19 coup.

"The suspect must have been hired by someone so I have ordered soldiers to investigate the incident and bring the mastermind of this crime to justice,'' said Saprang Kanlayanamitr, a member of the Council for National Security.

Source: http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_....php?id=114830

[Chitrapa]

Yesterday, when I talked to my gf on the phone, she told me she spoke FOUR languages.

"Four?"

The first two were easy to guess: English and Thai.

Since I had paid for 7 months of English and computer classes in Bangkok, I'm not about to admit she doesn't speak my mother tongue...lol.

Also, as I wrote in an previous report, she had no problems talking to everyone in Cambodia. Thus, Khmer was added to the list.

Then I remembered, when we were in Laos, she had no difficulties to communicating with ALL the locals. Finally, Isaan-Lao has rounded out the list of languages.

I'd like to thank everyone for the recent dialect/language discussion. For now, I'm going to stick to learning Thai.

Water?

Has anybody actually tested the water coming out of their pipes?

[LittleBigMan]

Sorry that I brought up the topic of water. I hope that things do not proceed to the fight club. Being the Kings birthday everyone should forget about water pump and get back to pumping the ladies!
Enjoy! LBM