Each year, thousands of tourists cross the border into Mexico for dental work in the small town of Los Algodones. The municipality Vicente Guerrero, better known as ‘Los Algodones’, is located at the ...
In a New Yorker piece, Burkhard Bilger accompanies Americans who cross a dusty strip of the Sonoran Desert into Los Algodones, aka "Molar City," where more than a thousand dentists work in a town of 5 ...
On weekday mornings in late winter, they start to arrive before dawn. They drive in from Arizona or California, catch a shuttle from Yuma, or park their car in a lot in the Sonoran Desert and cross ...
Nancy Nelson le tiene miedo al dentista. Se puede poner tan nerviosa que su mandíbula se descuadra. Pero hace 25 años —hoy tiene más de 60— empezó a venir al dentista en Los Algodones, México, y no ...