How Much Do Dental Implants Cost in the UK?

• Implant with crown £375
• UK typically £2,000–£3,000
• Lifetime implant guarantee
• Hotel and VIP transfer included

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

BeforeAfter

See all before-and-after photos →

How much does a dental implant cost in the UK?

A single dental implant with a crown typically costs £2,000–£3,000 in the UK, and £2,800–£4,500 in central London.¹ That price covers the three parts of the tooth — the titanium implant, the abutment that connects it and the crown on top — but not always the scan, the extraction or any bone grafting.

The spread is wide because clinics quote in different ways. Some headline prices are for the implant alone, with the abutment (£200–£500) and crown (£500–£1,200) added later; a quote below about £1,500 is usually one of those.¹ Others include the consultation, 3D scan and aftercare in one figure. The only fair comparison is item by item, which is how the table below and our own treatment plans are written.

UK implant prices by treatment

For more than one tooth, UK prices scale quickly: an implant bridge on two implants carrying three teeth typically costs £3,500–£9,000, an implant-retained denture £4,000–£9,000 per jaw, and a bone graft or sinus lift adds £400–£2,500 when it is needed.¹ Full sets of teeth on implants are on their own page: full mouth implants in the UK vs Turkey.

If you are searching for the cheapest dental implants in the UK: the lowest headline prices are around £1,200–£1,500, and they are almost always for the implant alone, with the abutment and crown — the parts you actually see and chew with — priced afterwards.¹ A complete tooth rarely comes in under about £1,800 anywhere in the UK. At TUA Dental the complete tooth, implant, abutment and zirconia crown, is £375.

Does the NHS pay for dental implants?

Rarely. The NHS says that implants are "usually only available privately and are expensive"; NHS funding is limited to exceptional clinical needs, such as after mouth cancer, serious injury or a condition you were born with. If you do qualify, the course of treatment falls under Band 3, £332.10 in England.

What the NHS does provide for missing teeth is a denture or a bridge under Band 3. For a tooth lost to decay or gum disease — the reason most people need an implant — the route is private treatment, and the question becomes where and at what price. (Source: nhs.uk, dental implants and NHS dental charges, October 2026.)

Free dental implants, grants and charities: what's actually available

There is no government grant for dental implants in the UK, and dental charities, as a rule, do not fund implants. The NHS Low Income Scheme (HC2 and HC3 certificates) reduces or covers NHS dental charges — Band 1 to Band 3 — but it does not apply to private treatment, and implants are private.

Two things do exist, and both are narrow. Dental teaching hospitals occasionally treat selected patients for training purposes, with long waits and strict selection; and dental charities offer emergency and basic care, not implants. For most people the realistic route to an affordable implant is not a grant but a lower price for the same treatment — which is what the rest of this page is about.

How much do dental implants cost in Turkey?

At TUA Dental in Kuşadası, a dental implant costs £230, or £375 with a zirconia crown — abutment, 3D CT scan and treatment plan included. Bone grafting, if your scan shows you need it, is from £130 per cc and a sinus lift from £210 per side; hotel and VIP transfer are included with your treatment.

No hidden costs: the price in your treatment plan is the price you pay.

The implants are the brands UK dentists place — Straumann, Nobel Biocare, Dentsply Sirona, Neodent, Medentika, Osstem, MegaGen, Dentium, Nucleoss, Bilimplant and Implance — and every implant comes with its own implant passport recording the brand, size and position. Crowns are monolithic zirconia, made in our own CAD/CAM lab. How the treatment is done, step by step, is on our dental implants page; every price we charge is on our full price list.

Get your free treatment plan with every item priced+90 551 850 04 90

UK vs Turkey: like for like

Like for like, a dental implant with a zirconia crown at TUA Dental costs 81–89% less than the typical UK price: £375 against £2,000–£3,500. The comparison below uses the same implant brands and a ceramic crown on both sides, and it grows with every tooth.

The UK figures are the complete-tooth prices from the first table, not the implant-only headlines; ours include the consultation, 3D scan, treatment plan, hotel and VIP transfer. For a full set of teeth on four or six implants, see full mouth implants: UK vs Turkey.

The total cost of an implant trip

One implant with a zirconia crown, flights included, comes to around £550–£720: £375 for the treatment and two return flights from London to Izmir at typically £90–£170 each in the winter months.² That is between a fifth and a third of what one implant costs in the UK — and the hotel and VIP transfer are already included.

Tell us your nearest airport — we plan both visits around the flights+90 551 850 04 90

Why is it cheaper in Turkey, and what stays the same?

The price is lower because the clinic's costs are lower — rent, salaries and laboratory work in Kuşadası cost a fraction of what they cost in the UK — and because a clinic that places more than 1,800 implants a year buys implants and ceramics at volume. What stays the same is the implant itself: the same brands, the same 3D planning, the same digital impressions.

• The implant. Straumann, Nobel Biocare, Neodent and the other brands on our list — bought from the same manufacturers, with an implant passport for each one.
• The planning. A 3D CT scan before every implant, digital impressions instead of putty, and a crown milled in our own CAD/CAM lab.
• The people. Five dentists, one of them a specialist in periodontology; Principal Dentist Tuğçe Arslan has placed more than 2,200 implants.
• The costs. Five treatment rooms, a 3D CT scanner and a laboratory run on Turkish rents and salaries, with an exchange rate that favours anyone paying in pounds.

Two visits: 3 days + 6 days

A dental implant takes two short visits to Kuşadası: three days (up to five) for the implant, and six days (up to eight) two to three months later for the crown. The implant is placed on day one and you fly home on day three, after a final check — the same with a bone graft; with a sinus lift the first visit takes five days.

On the first visit your dentist takes the 3D CT scan, confirms the plan and places the implant in 10–30 minutes under local anaesthetic. During the healing months the implant fuses with the bone; your coordinator stays in touch. On the second visit a digital impression is taken, your zirconia crown is made in our own lab, tried in and fitted. Hotel and VIP transfer are included on both visits, and your coordinator plans the dates around direct flights to Izmir. The full step-by-step process is on our dental implants page.

Aftercare back in the UK

Your implant carries a lifetime guarantee and your zirconia crown a five-year guarantee, and you go home with an implant passport, your 3D scan and a treatment report. With those, any dentist in the UK can see exactly what was placed and look after your check-ups and cleaning.

Aftercare does not stop at the airport: your coordinator remains your contact, and if anything feels wrong you send a photo first and our dentist tells you what to do. Our guide to Turkey teeth gone wrong explains how to check a clinic's aftercare before you book — and what good aftercare looks like.

Real results

Before-and-after photos of our implant patients are in our gallery, every one taken in our clinic. Three of them are below.

BeforeAfterBeforeAfterBeforeAfter

See all before-and-after photos →

Last updated: November 7, 2026