Dental Implants Abroad: Costs, Safety and How to Choose

• Implant with crown £375
• Hotel and VIP transfer included
• Direct flights to Izmir
• Lifetime guarantee on all implants

New to the term? Read what Turkey teeth are — and how to do them right.

How much do dental implants cost abroad?

A dental implant with its abutment and crown typically costs £850–£1,700 in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Bulgaria, against £2,000–£3,000 in the UK.¹ At TUA Dental in Kuşadası, Turkey, the same complete tooth costs £375, with the consultation, 3D CT scan, hotel and VIP transfer included.

The table below compares the destinations UK patients search for most, using the price of one complete tooth — implant, abutment and crown — and the fastest direct flight from London. Prices abroad range from budget implant systems to premium brands with a zirconia crown, and they are for the tooth alone: the consultation, scans and your stay usually come on top, so ask every clinic what its figure includes.

No hidden costs: the price in your treatment plan is the price you pay. Every price we charge is on our full price list, and the UK comparison for implants — including what the NHS covers — is on dental implants: UK vs Turkey.

Why are dental implants cheaper abroad?

Dental implants cost less abroad because running a clinic costs less: rent, salaries and laboratory work cost a fraction of UK prices, and the exchange rate favours anyone paying in pounds. The implants themselves are made by the same international manufacturers wherever they are placed.

A Straumann or Nobel Biocare implant is the same product in London, Budapest or Kuşadası, and so is an E.max or zirconia crown. What does change from clinic to clinic — in any country, including the UK — is everything around the implant: who plans and places it, whether there is a 3D CT scan before surgery, how long the bone is given to heal, which brand is used and whether you get a record of it. That is why the clinic matters far more than the country, and why the rest of this page is about choosing one.

At TUA Dental the price is lower for the same reasons, plus volume: we place more than 1,800 implants a year and make every crown in our own CAD/CAM lab, instead of paying an outside laboratory.

Is it safe to get dental implants abroad?

It can be, when the clinic is well run — and UK guidance tells you exactly how to check. The General Dental Council advises that "you should always be assessed by a qualified dentist before being given a treatment plan and cost estimate", and the NHS treatment abroad checklist warns against a hard sell, a lack of information, pressure to decide quickly, no discussion of possible complications and no mention of aftercare.³

Both point the same way: a named, registered dentist; a written plan and price before you commit; realistic treatment times; a clear answer to what happens if something goes wrong; and aftercare you can reach from home. The NHS also suggests you factor in exchange rates, the possibility of extending your stay and the cost of any return trips — sensible advice that a good clinic answers in writing before you book.³

For Turkey specifically, the UK government's travel advice points patients to the Turkish Ministry of Health's list of approved providers on the HealthTürkiye website; TUA Dental holds the Ministry's International Health Tourism Authorisation and is on that list. Why Turkey teeth go wrong and how to avoid it explains the mistakes behind bad results and how a well-run clinic prevents each one.

How to choose a clinic abroad: the questions to ask

The General Dental Council suggests a set of questions to ask any clinic abroad before you commit, from who will treat you to who you can contact afterwards.³ Here are seven of them, with our answers in writing — the same answers your free treatment plan gives you before you travel.

Ask for your free treatment plan — with these answers in writing+90 551 850 04 90

The real cost: treatment, flights and your stay

An implant trip abroad costs the treatment plus two return flights — one for the implant, one for the crown — and somewhere to stay on both visits. At TUA Dental one implant with zirconia crown and two return flights from London come to around £550–£720, because the hotel and VIP transfer are already included.⁴

When you compare destinations, add the same things to every quote: two sets of flights for an implant, nights in a hotel for each visit unless they are included, transfers, and the consultation and scans if they are charged separately. Then compare the totals, not the headline prices. The cost calculator adds up your own plan at TUA Dental in pounds or euro, next to the typical UK price.

How many trips do implants abroad need?

Two, wherever you go: an implant needs two to three months to fuse with the bone before the final crown goes on — three to six with a bone graft or sinus lift. At TUA Dental the first visit takes three days (up to five) and the second six days (up to eight).

That is a matter of biology, not of the country. On the first visit the 3D CT scan confirms the plan and the implant is placed the same day, in 10–30 minutes under local anaesthetic; after a check on day two and a final check on day three you fly home — after a bone graft or sinus lift, two to three days after the procedure. On the second visit a digital impression is taken, your crown is made in our own lab and fitted. Be wary of any offer that promises implants and final teeth in a few days without explaining why your case allows it. How each visit works is on our dental implants page, and full sets of fixed teeth on All-on-4 and All-on-6.

Aftercare when you're back home

Good aftercare abroad means three things: records your own dentist can read, a guarantee in writing and a person to contact after you fly home. At TUA Dental you go home with an implant passport, your 3D scan and a treatment record, a lifetime guarantee on the implant and five years on the crown, and your coordinator remains your contact.

The General Dental Council suggests telling your own dentist about your plans before you travel, so they can look after you afterwards — and the records you bring home make that easy: any dentist can see exactly which implant was placed, where, and which parts fit it. If anything feels wrong at home, you send your coordinator a photograph and our dentist tells you what to do; if you need to be seen, we tell you whether your own dentist can help or plan a visit with you.

Why UK patients choose Kuşadası for implants

Turkey is the most common destination for British residents travelling abroad for medical treatment: about 196,000 of the 523,000 visits made in 2024, according to the Office for National Statistics.⁵ At TUA Dental in Kuşadası, an implant with zirconia crown costs £375, with the hotel and VIP transfer included; direct flights to Izmir leave from London Stansted, Gatwick, Manchester and Dublin.

• The price, with the stay included. £375 for a complete tooth, £2,660 per jaw for All-on-4; the consultation, 3D CT scan, hotel and VIP transfer are part of it.
• Branded implants with a passport. Straumann, Nobel Biocare, Dentsply Sirona, Neodent and the other brands on our list, each recorded in your implant passport, with a lifetime guarantee on every implant.
• Planning in the clinic. A 3D CT scanner, digital impressions and our own CAD/CAM lab; more than 1,800 implants a year.
• A holiday town, not a hospital district. Kuşadası is a world-famous resort on the Aegean, 45 minutes from Izmir airport, with Ephesus half an hour away — our Kuşadası page has the flights from each airport.

Patients from Ireland pay in euro — an implant with crown is €440 — and can claim 20% back from Revenue with a Form Med 2 for treatment abroad; see our Ireland page and our Med 2 guide.

Real results

Every case is photographed in our clinic before and after. Three implant cases are below; more are in our gallery.

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Last updated: November 7, 2026