My great colleagues

What are the characteristics of my talented Hungarian dental colleagues?

On a Monday morning our waiting room is like a railway station; filled up with waiting people and a buzz of different languages. Monday is the day when dentists must make the most major decisions.

One by one, the new patients enter the dentist chair for examination. A panoramic x-ray is then already taken and displayed on the screen next to the dental chair.

The dentist makes a clinical examination and in a short time, a full treatment plan is presented to the patient. This is of course written in the patient’s native language.

I have never met so experienced dentists as at Kreativ Dental. Creating one after the other complex treatment plan during one day is something very difficult, not many dentists are capable to do that.

Easter at Kreativ Dental

Time flies and it's already Easter. It is unusual for Kreativ Dental to close on national holidays but Easter Monday is one of the exceptions. The reason for why we rarely close is that we need 5 working days to produce prosthetic work and with respect to our patients, we try to always keep open 5 working days a week. But if I should be completely honest; I think a free long weekend is just what the staff at Kreativ Dental needs now.


This is a Swedish tradition; an egg filled with candy, a dream for a dentist.
So hereby, I wish all readers a happy Easter.

I will return soon with more insights into the everyday life of a dentist at Kreativ Dental Budapest.

Viszontlátásra is not a good word to start a blog post with because it means goodbye in Hungarian. I can easily admit that I do not speak or understand much Hungarian, but this is a word you have to know if you live in Hungary. It took me about a week to learn it. I have lived in many parts of the world and get in contact with many languages so I am quite used to learn the most important phrases in every country. Hungarian, however, is something very special. As you can see, from the word I started this post with, it looks and sounds like no other language. I still have ambitions to learn more Hungarian, but as long as all my colleges at the clinic speak more or less perfectly English it goes slowly.

Neither to speak and understand English is easy for some of our patients that’s  why we have translators for Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Italian, French, Finnish, German, Russian and now also Dutch. No person from any country should ever be afraid of coming here because of the language; at Kreativ Dental you can get help in almost any language.

It feels like it's been forever since I was able to sneak away and write some few lines. Here in Budapest spring has come with all the beautiful colors that it brings. Spring and summer also mean high season at the clinic. Who would not like to go to Budapest when the city is at its most beautiful? As I've written before, it is necessary to have a good organization to get everything to “flow” when we have about 600 patients per month. Kreativ Dental has local agents in several countries that cooperate with the clinic. 

Their job is to promote the clinic to their fellow citizens and to provide information and answer questions. Furthermore, they make an appointment for those people who want to become patients at Kreativ Dental. In addition to book an appointment at the clinic, they also do the booking for hotel and airport shuttle. Thanks to a good booking system, this works perfectly.

Kreativ Dental is only one clinic among many clinics in several countries dealing with dental tourism.

Why should you choose Kreativ Dental for your dental treatment?

For me, as a dentist, I can give you lots of good reasons why you should choose Kretaiv Dental, but not making this post to long I will give you three good reasons.

First of all, of course, our dentists who are skilled and professional especially when it comes to reconstruction of destroyed bites.

Secondly, we have the dental laboratory in the same house which gives the technicians the chance to see the patient and then produce individual crowns and dentures.

Last but not least we have a fantastic service build up around our patients. Every country has their own native speaking agent, our own reception at the airport, airport transfer, partner hotels etc.

I will come back to the details about our service, but now I have to go back to the patients.

The start of a day at Kreativ Dental

What a beautiful morning with birds singing and a warming, bright morning sun. Seven thirty in the morning on the way to my job at Kreativ Dental. It is still only February but I can almost smell the spring in the air. Far away, at the end of the long street, I can catch a glimpse of the well-known building with Kreativ Dental in huge letter on the short side of the house. It is a fantastic building in six levels, included the garage. Everything is characterized by perfection; every single detail is well planned.  All this for the patients comfort, not only during treatment, but all the time they spend at Kreativ Dental. More to come about the clinic and treatments, now I have to take care of our patients... Attila Knott, the boss is here watching what I am doing here instead of reviewing my task list :)

Are you afraid of the dentist?

As a dentist, you are not particularly popular. “Necessary pain” we call it in Sweden.

All people, more or less, find it uncomfortable to go to the dentist. Many are so afraid that they avoid it totally. In the end, it has gone so far that they have to go because of the pain or the inability to chew food. Also the self-confidence and social life suffer. It is at this stage of decay many decide; something must be done. They visit   their local dentist and get a “cold shower” of the price that is presented. They start to search for cheaper, good quality dental treatment abroad. A few months later, they slightly nervously enter   the main entrance at Kreativ Dental. Another few days later they go out through the same entrance again significantly eased. They claim to have gotten rid of dental fear. How can that be? My male, Hungarian colleagues do not look nicer than my Norwegian and Swedish colleges (or maybe) and are not less heavy-handed either. This is something I need to research further on, but the fact remains. Patients lose their dental phobia at Kreativ Dental. The reviews we get many times say this is because of the friendly atmosphere of the clinic.