Dental treatment is of a high standard but can be costly. EU residents should carry the E111 form entitling them to reciprocal health care in other EU states. For minor aches and pains make straight for the farmacia . Other nationals are strongly advised to get medical and travel insurance before they leave. If none of this works, you could try contacting the new Travel Medicine centre run by the Ancona Health Authority to help tourists and pilgrims visiting the area.
Travellers cheques in major foreign currencies are widely acceptable.
Read the instructions in the event of loss or theft that come with the cheques. The major international credit cards, such as Visa, can be used to get cash in the automatic cash dispensers that are now the norm outside banks across the Marche - don't forget your PIN code. Banks open Monday to Friday 8.30-13.30 and one hour in the afternoon sometime between 14.30 and 16.00, varying between one bank and another. Credit cards in place of cash transactions are not yet as widespread in Italy as in Northern Europe and the States, but they are catching on fast. All but the humbler guest-houses and simpler restaurants in central Italy now accept them as do most petrol stations.