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Inside Mexico's "Molar City," where Americans find dental care at 80% off

Inside Mexico's "Molar City," where Americans find dental care at 80% off

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 30, 2025
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Inside Mexico's "Molar City," where Americans find dental care at 80% off
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Los Algodones Mexico, known locally as Molar City. (David Buzzard / Shutterstock.com)

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 5,500. Patients come "to be healed or transformed or to put an end to t…

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