What a tooth costs, and where
A single implant is £2,500 in the UK and £500 in Turkey. Every comparison site in Europe makes you fill in a form to find that out.
Four procedures, 11 countries
| Country | Median | Range | Data | vs United Kingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | £2,500 | £1,800–£3,500 | survey | baseline |
| 🇦🇱Albania | £450 | £330–£700 | ~ 12 | −82% |
| 🇹🇷Turkey | £500 | £350–£800 | ~ 24 | −80% |
| 🇵🇱Poland | £650 | £400–£1,000 | ~ 14 | −74% |
| 🇷🇴Romania | £700 | £450–£1,000 | ~ 9 | −72% |
| 🇧🇬Bulgaria | £750 | £550–£1,000 | ~ 8 | −70% |
| 🇭🇺Hungary | £750 | £500–£1,100 | ~ 18 | −70% |
| 🇨🇿Czech Republic | £850 | £600–£1,200 | ~ 7 | −66% |
| 🇭🇷Croatia | £950 | £700–£1,300 | ~ 6 | −62% |
| 🇪🇸Spain | £1,000 | £650–£1,300 | ~ 11 | −60% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | £1,300 | £900–£1,800 | ~ 6 | −48% |
Single dental implant, per tooth. Includes titanium fixture, abutment and final crown. Excludes bone graft, sinus lift, CT scan, sedation.
| Country | Median | Range | Data | vs United Kingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | £12,000 | £9,000–£18,000 | survey | baseline |
| 🇦🇱Albania | £3,800 | £2,800–£5,500 | ~ 12 | −68% |
| 🇹🇷Turkey | £4,500 | £3,000–£6,500 | ~ 24 | −63% |
| 🇷🇴Romania | £5,000 | £3,500–£7,000 | ~ 9 | −58% |
| 🇧🇬Bulgaria | £5,500 | £4,000–£7,500 | ~ 8 | −54% |
| 🇭🇺Hungary | £5,500 | £4,000–£7,500 | ~ 18 | −54% |
| 🇵🇱Poland | £6,500 | £4,500–£8,000 | ~ 14 | −46% |
| 🇨🇿Czech Republic | £7,000 | £5,000–£9,000 | ~ 7 | −42% |
| 🇭🇷Croatia | £7,500 | £5,500–£9,500 | ~ 6 | −38% |
| 🇪🇸Spain | £7,500 | £5,000–£10,000 | ~ 11 | −38% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | £8,500 | £6,000–£11,000 | ~ 6 | −29% |
All-on-4 full arch, per arch. Includes four implants, surgery, abutments and a fixed bridge. Excludes second arch, sedation, zirconia upgrade, bone graft.
| Country | Median | Range | Data | vs United Kingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | £800 | £500–£1,500 | survey | baseline |
| 🇹🇷Turkey | £220 | £150–£350 | ~ 24 | −73% |
| 🇦🇱Albania | £250 | £150–£400 | ~ 12 | −69% |
| 🇷🇴Romania | £280 | £180–£420 | ~ 9 | −65% |
| 🇧🇬Bulgaria | £300 | £200–£450 | ~ 8 | −63% |
| 🇵🇱Poland | £350 | £250–£500 | ~ 14 | −56% |
| 🇭🇺Hungary | £350 | £200–£500 | ~ 18 | −56% |
| 🇨🇿Czech Republic | £400 | £280–£600 | ~ 7 | −50% |
| 🇪🇸Spain | £450 | £300–£650 | ~ 11 | −44% |
| 🇭🇷Croatia | £480 | £320–£700 | ~ 6 | −40% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | £600 | £400–£850 | ~ 6 | −25% |
Porcelain veneer, per tooth. Includes e-Max or pressed ceramic veneer, fitted. Excludes whitening, gum contouring, temporaries beyond the first set.
| Country | Median | Range | Data | vs United Kingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | £800 | £500–£1,200 | survey | baseline |
| 🇦🇱Albania | £160 | £100–£260 | ~ 12 | −80% |
| 🇹🇷Turkey | £200 | £100–£350 | ~ 24 | −75% |
| 🇷🇴Romania | £230 | £130–£380 | ~ 9 | −71% |
| 🇧🇬Bulgaria | £250 | £150–£400 | ~ 8 | −69% |
| 🇵🇱Poland | £300 | £150–£450 | ~ 14 | −63% |
| 🇭🇺Hungary | £300 | £150–£500 | ~ 18 | −63% |
| 🇨🇿Czech Republic | £330 | £200–£500 | ~ 7 | −59% |
| 🇪🇸Spain | £400 | £250–£600 | ~ 11 | −50% |
| 🇭🇷Croatia | £420 | £250–£620 | ~ 6 | −48% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | £500 | £300–£700 | ~ 6 | −38% |
Zirconia crown, per unit. Includes preparation, impression, lab work and fitting. Excludes root canal, post and core, extraction.
Where the cheap treatment is
The gap is structural, not clinical
Nothing about the implant changes when it crosses a border. The same Swiss and Korean fixtures, the same zirconia crowns, often surgeons trained at the same European schools. What changes is rent in Marylebone against rent in Kadıköy, and the wage bill behind the chair.
The second reason is closer to home. Around 40% of UK adults cannot get an NHS dentist, waits for routine work run past a year, and implants are almost never available on the NHS at all. Roughly 600,000 British patients now travel each year — increasingly not for cosmetic work but for basic restorative treatment they cannot access at home.
Prices shouldn't be a secret
NHS access has collapsed
Over 40% of UK adults cannot get an NHS dentist. Waits for routine work run past a year, and implants are almost never available on the NHS at all.
Private prices are opaque
A single implant runs £1,800 to £3,500 privately. You will not find that out without booking a consultation first.
"Get a free quote" everywhere
Every comparison platform gates the number behind a contact form. Transparency should not require your phone number.
A tooth is three components, not one
The titanium fixture that goes into the bone. The abutment that connects to it. The crown you can see. Advertised prices almost always quote the first and call it an implant.
Every figure on this site is the finished tooth. It is the largest single correction we make to published prices, and it moves the comparison more than the country does.
Fixed subsidies amplify. Proportional ones absorb.
The subsidy does not shrink when the bill does — so you keep more of a cheaper bill.
The subsidy is a share of the bill — so a cheaper bill means a smaller subsidy.
Paid only if your diagnosis qualifies. Most routine work does not.
No dental cover at all. The whole price gap is yours.
Two trips, four to nine months
- 1 CBCT scan and plan 1 day
Bone volume measured. Whether you need a graft is decided here, not later.
- 2 Extraction if needed same visit
Some clinics graft the socket at the same time to preserve the gum shape.
- 3 Implant placement 1–2 days
Fixture goes into the bone. Swelling for three to five days.
- 4 Fly home —
Nothing visible above the gum but a healing cap.
- 5 Bone integrates 3–6 months
The wait that makes this a two-trip treatment. No way around it.
- 6 Abutment and impression 1 day
Connector fitted, impression taken.
- 7 Lab work 2–5 days
The crown is made. You stay for this.
- 8 Final crown fitted 1 day
This is the "after" in every photograph you have seen.
- 9 Follow-up yearly
Arrange this before you fly, not after.
The number that is usually wrong
Advertised implant prices usually quote the screw on its own.
A "£350 implant" in Istanbul is the titanium fixture. Add the abutment and the crown and the finished tooth is £500–£800. The same trick runs the other way: "implants from £1,500" in London becomes £2,500 once the crown is fitted.
Every figure on this site is for the complete tooth. It is the largest single correction we make to published prices, and it moves the comparison more than anything else.
Where people actually go
Prices for every procedure, what the local regulator guarantees, and the cost of getting there and back twice.
Largest destination by volume, cheapest of the established markets. Istanbul and Antalya.
Cheapest flights of any destination, so the second trip barely costs anything. Kraków, Warsaw.
EU prices within a few hundred pounds of Albania's, and almost nobody writes about it in English.
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechia, Croatia, Hungary, Spain and Portugal alongside the three above, ranked by price.
Two kinds of number, and we say which
Aggregated fee guides
We start from the national registry — CQC in the UK, RPWDL in Poland, REGCESS in Spain — then read each practice's own published fee page. One price per clinic. Units never inferred. Nothing carries the verified badge below fifteen clinics. p10–p90, never min–max.
Editorial
Turkey, Albania, Romania and the rest have no public registry to build a complete clinic list from. For those we compile ranges from published price lists and say how many sources. These ranges are editorial, not computed percentiles — with six or eight sources a percentile would be false precision. Useful for orientation, and labelled as such on every table.
Where we are right now
Every market is currently on editorial estimates, the UK included — 115 sources across 11 countries. The fee-guide aggregation has not been run yet. When it is, the badges change and this paragraph goes. In the meantime you can see every clinic we read, including the ones that would not publish a price.
Transparency is the product
No enquiry forms
No "request a quote", no phone number required, no email gate. We do not sell your contact details to clinics, because we do not collect them.
No paid placement
No clinic buys a position in a price table, and none buys their way out of one. We take no money from the clinics we list.
Statistical honesty
Ranges, never a cherry-picked "from" price. Fifteen published fee pages is the bar a market has to clear before we call it verified — and no market has cleared it yet, which is why every row still says estimate.
See what treatment really costs
Pick a country, or compare all 11 in one table.
Official sources
We are not one of these. Check anything on this page against them before you act on it.
- NHS England NHS — dental charges Current Band 1, 2 and 3 charges
- GDC General Dental Council register Check any UK dentist's registration
- Care Quality Commission Dental services guidance Regulatory standards for UK practices
- European Commission Cross-border healthcare directive Directive 2011/24/EU and national contact points