Salvador da Bahia Travel Forum

I am planning on a visit to Salvador da Bahia and want to get major dental work done while there, since the cost is outrageous in the USA. All of the resources I've seen for Brazilian Dentists - particularly those who speak English, are in Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paolo. Can anyone suggest an online list of dentists in Salvador, with links to the clinic's websites? Or can anyone share their experiences with a particular dentist, either good or bad. I really prefer to go to someone who can communicate in English and who regularly sees foreigners who go to Brazil for the lower prices. Thanks.

I believe you know how difficult is to point some professional when you live very far from it. I live in Belo Horizonte/MG.
However I may try to help you sending some hints.
* CROBA is the Odontology Regional Conceil from Bahia. Adress, e-mail and fax
from CROBA are:
- Rua Basilio da Gama, 03; croba@croba.org.br; Fax: (71) 3114-2509
* CROBA link is:
- http://www.croba.org.br/index.php?centro=servicos/CRO.html

Not a single Regional Conceil is obliged to know if its members talk fluently some foreign language. So I believe the valuabler answer for you shall be from
Bahia native citizens. It's easy for "baianos" to answer your question.
I just thought my hints may facilitate you in getting in touch with some unknown odontologist. A citizen from Minas Gerais state who really is 1400Km far from Salvador may hinder your inquirying.
Good luck! Cassiovieggore

Thanks very much for responding so quickly to me!! CROBA looks like a very good place to start. The web page is in Portuguese, but I can use online translation tools to establish contact and ask them if someone there can write back to me in English or Spanish. You have been very helpful to me with this!! I am very excited to visit Brasil and see your country. I will be in Bahia and Pernambuco for 3 weeks and they both look like wonderful places with many interesting things to see and do. Thanks again,
Felipe

If you look on the site for Salvador www.bahia-online.net, you will find contact info for a very good, kind-of-English-speaking (she herself told me she didn´t think she spoke that well, but I didn´´t speak to her in English either) dentist. However, her prices are pretty much equal to prices in the U.S. For some one who speaks English in Salvador, I think that´s going to be the rule. Lower prices in Salvador mean you better be able to explain yourself and understand the response in Portuguese.