Planning the Trip
Before which clinic comes whether the trip works at all — what you need at the border, how long the crossing takes, and how many times you have to go. Most people ask these first and find them answered nowhere. Every fact here carries its source and the date we read it, the same rule as the prices in the directory.
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What Documents You Need
What CBP accepts at a land crossing back into the US — and why the birth-certificate rule your clinic's website still prints stopped applying to adults in 2009.
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Border Crossings, Live
Current wait times and opening hours at the ports serving Los Algodones and Tijuana, read live from CBP. Andrade closes at 10pm — plan the day around it.
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How Many Trips You'll Need
One visit, two, or more — what decides it, why implants are not a single-trip procedure, and how to plan the gap.
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How You Actually Pay
Los Algodones runs on US cash, and the clinics that take cards publish a 3-4% processing fee. What each clinic we have read says it accepts, quoted, with the date.
where each destination stands
- Los Algodones and Tijuana — a land crossing from Arizona or California. Documents and port hours are the whole logistics problem; there are no flights to plan. Live crossing times.
- Cancún — a flight, so the trip count matters more than the border does. How many trips.
- Antalya, Istanbul and Izmir — a flight, and for most readers a UK one. The comparison that matters is landed cost against staying home: Mexico or Turkey?
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