Medical tourism looking sickly as patients watch their spending

FILE PHOTO: Hungarian dentist Ivan Solymosi checks British patient Bob Martin's implants at the Kreativ Dental Clinic in Budapest, Hungary, February 10, 2023. REUTERS/Marton Monus

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Attila Knott has an empty dental hospital in Hungary.

The foreigners with bad teeth he was counting on never arrived, deterred first by COVID-19 and now by a cost-of-living crisis that has left the medical tourism industry struggling to recover even after the lifting of pandemic travel restrictions.