Editorial standards

Who writes our guides

Our guides are written by the Uriym editorial team. Uriym is a healthcare navigation platform that helps people explore care options, understand indicative costs and plan care journeys across borders, today in Guadalajara and Tijuana, Mexico. Uriym is not a medical provider: it does not practice medicine or dentistry, diagnose, prescribe or perform procedures.

Uriym was founded by Adriana Mendez, who grew up in a family that traveled to Mexico for care and has done it herself for the past ten years. She is also a privacy attorney. The questions in these guides are the ones people ask before they make that trip.

What we cover, and why

We write about the decisions people face before traveling for care: what a treatment involves, what it costs, how to check a doctor and a clinic, how to cross the border and get home safely, and what to do if something goes wrong. Our goal is that you finish a guide informed and prepared to make your own decision.

Each guide answers its question in its opening lines. Then it takes the things you can check yourself one at a time, each with why it matters and how to check it, and ends with the questions to ask, a checklist and, where they apply, the warning signs to know. Every risk comes with what you can do about it.

Everything outside the clearly labeled "Where Uriym helps" panel is written to be useful whether or not you ever use Uriym.

Our sources

Every fact in a guide links to where it comes from, and each guide lists its sources. We use, in this order:

• U.S. government agencies, such as the CDC, FDA, National Institutes of Health, State Department, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, TSA, DEA, IRS and Medicare.gov.
• Mexican government agencies, such as COFEPRIS, the Secretaría de Salud, the Secretaría de Educación Pública (for professional licenses), CONACEM, CONAMED and PROFECO.
• Other public bodies, such as England's NHS and the UK's General Dental Council.
• Professional societies, such as the American Dental Association and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, named as professional societies, not regulators.
• Peer-reviewed research, when no official page covers a point.

We do not use clinic or agency marketing, competitors, SEO blogs, AI-written pages, forums or social media as sources. If a fact appears only there, it stays out of the guide.

How we fact-check

We draft guides with AI assistance. Before a guide is published, a separate review checks it claim by claim against the text of each source: every number, rule, risk and attribution. Where a source says "may," the guide does not say "will"; where a source gives a range, the guide does not give a single number; a UK or U.S. rule is never presented as a Mexican one. A claim that can't be confirmed is rewritten to what the source does say, or removed.

After the fact-check, a second review reads the guide for structure and tone: terms explained the first time they're used, each fact and price stated once, and no risk left without what you can do about it. Each guide shows the date it was last checked against its sources, and we keep research notes recording which source supports each claim.

How we handle prices

Prices in our guides are Uriym's indicative ranges, the same ones in the price catalog, shown in U.S. dollars with their unit, such as per tooth or per syringe. They cover the listed treatment only and are not quotes: providers set their own prices, and your cost depends on your consultation and treatment plan. Any other figure comes from a cited official or professional source, with what it covers. We don't publish savings percentages.

About our photos

The photos in our guides are illustrations made with AI image tools. They don't show real patients, clinicians, clinics or treatment results, and nothing in a guide rests on them: every fact comes from a cited source.

Independence and what we won’t do

Uriym works with partner providers. Our guides don't name, rank or recommend individual clinics or doctors, and the parts of a guide that describe Uriym's services are set apart in a clearly labeled panel. We don't publish testimonials, patient counts or guarantees, and we never describe a treatment as "safe" or "risk-free."

Health information is not medical advice

Our guides are general information. Your treating provider decides whether a treatment, and travel for it, is right for you, and your doctor at home should be part of the plan. In a medical emergency, call 911, which works in the United States and in Mexico.

Updates and corrections

Rules, prices and advisories change. Each guide has a date to recheck its time-sensitive facts, and when a guide changes materially, it shows the date it was updated. If you find something wrong or out of date, email support@uriym.com. We check the source, correct the guide and update its date.

Our guides are published in English.