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Medical and Dental Care Back Home

Care back home done with your eyes open: dentists and clinics checked, records carried both ways, full costs and insurance worked out, and follow-up lined up with your doctor abroad.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Medical and Dental Care Back Home, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own health. It is not medical advice and does not replace a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other qualified professional. Check any change to treatment, medicine or diet with them first, and get urgent care if you feel unwell.

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🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Medical and Dental Care Back Home

Getting medical or dental treatment in the Caribbean during visits: finding trusted providers, records, costs, insurance and follow-up care abroad.

  1. Which kinds of care suit a visit home
  2. One-page health summary to carry home
  3. Copies of records from your doctor and dentist abroad
  4. Talking to your own doctor before treatment back home
  5. What your health and travel insurance cover overseas
  6. Shortlist of trusted dentists and clinics back home
  7. Checking a practitioner's registration back home
  8. Full-cost comparison of treatment here and back home
  9. Emergency plan for falling ill during a visit
  10. Paying for treatment with cash, cards and receipts
  11. Health records folder kept current across two countries
  12. Booking appointments back home before each trip
  13. Treatment fund for care back home
  14. Buying regular medicines at pharmacies back home
  15. Claims and receipts log for overseas treatment
  16. Follow-up schedule after treatment back home
  17. Yearly dental and eye check rota across two countries
  18. Keeping in touch with your providers back home
  19. Yearly review of care received back home
  20. Public and private care as a visitor back home
  21. Reading a dental treatment plan and quote
  22. Questions to ask before agreeing to any procedure
  23. Spotting good hygiene and safety at a clinic
  24. Flying safely after dental work or surgery
  25. Results and imaging your doctor abroad can use
  26. Patient rights, consent and complaints back home
  27. Deciding where to have one major procedure
  28. Implant, bridge or denture decision back home
  29. Eye test and new glasses made back home
  30. Second opinion from a specialist back home
  31. Choosing a private hospital for planned treatment
  32. International health cover for long stays at home
  33. Blood tests and screening during a visit home
  34. Splitting long dental treatment across two trips
  35. Treatment week itinerary for the next trip home
  36. First visit to a new dentist back home
  37. Day of a minor procedure back home
  38. Recovery days before the flight back
  39. Follow-up appointment with your doctor after you return
  40. Children's dental and eye checks during the summer at home
  41. Pregnant and travelling home with your records
  42. Managing diabetes or pressure during a long visit home
  43. Registering with a local doctor for a stay of three months
  44. Student home for the holidays with dental work to do
  45. Getting care back home with a disability or mobility needs
  46. Putting right a complication after treatment back home
  47. Planned surgery back home from start to finish
  48. Long-term condition care shared between two countries
  49. Treatment reports translated for your doctor abroad
  50. Ten-year plan for which care happens where

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Which kinds of care suit a visit home

Routine dental work, an eye test, a check-up with a family doctor or a set of blood tests fit neatly into a two-week trip, while anything needing several visits, a long recovery or close monitoring often does not. Sorting the care you are considering into what suits a visit, what needs two trips and what belongs where you live stops you booking treatment the trip cannot carry.

First tasks

  • List every check-up, treatment or procedure you have been putting off
  • Mark each one as one visit, two visits or better done where you live
  • Ask a provider back home how many appointments each item really takes
  • Choose the items to plan into the next trip home

One-page health summary to carry home

Meeting you for the first time, often in a twenty-minute slot, a dentist or doctor needs your conditions, medicines, allergies and past operations at a glance. A single page in plain English, printed and on your phone, saves you reciting your history from memory and catches the allergy or blood thinner that changes how they treat you. It is just as useful if you fall ill unexpectedly.

First tasks

  • Write down every medicine you take with its strength and how often
  • List allergies and the reaction each one caused
  • Add past operations, implants and their dates
  • Ask your pharmacist to check the medicine list for errors
  • Update the summary after any change in medicines or diagnosis @recurring(yearly)

Copies of records from your doctor and dentist abroad

Without your recent X-rays a dentist back home cannot plan a crown well, and without your earlier blood results a doctor cannot judge the new ones. Requesting copies of your dental charts, X-rays, recent results and clinic letters before you travel means the provider back home starts from your history rather than from scratch, and you avoid paying for repeat X-rays.

First tasks

  • Ask your dentist's reception how to request copies of X-rays and charts
  • Download recent results and letters from your patient portal
  • Send a written records request to your doctor's practice
  • Save every file in one folder named by date and provider

Make it yours.

Install Medical and Dental Care Back Home, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.