How are these dental prices collected?

From national healthcare registries — CQC in the UK, RPWDL in Poland, REGCESS in Spain — we build a complete list of registered practices, then read each one’s own published fee page. One price per clinic, units never inferred, and nothing published below fifteen clinics.

What is the difference between verified and estimated prices?

Verified figures are aggregated from clinics’ own published fee guides via our pipeline. Editorial estimates are compiled from published price lists where no national registry exists to build a complete clinic list from. Every table marks which is which.

Methodology

How we collect prices

Two kinds of number appear on this site and they are not equivalent. We label which is which on every table, because a site that blurs the two is not worth reading.

✓ Verified — aggregated fee guides

We start from the national healthcare registry — CQC in the UK, RPWDL in Poland, REGCESS in Spain — which gives a complete, verifiable list of registered dental practices rather than a self-selected directory. We then visit each practice's own website and read its published fee page. A price is only recorded if the clinic published it.

Then the gates:

One price per clinic per treatment, so a large chain cannot skew a median.
Units are never inferred. If a page does not say whether £450 is the implant alone or the finished tooth, the figure is discarded rather than guessed.
Minimum 15 clinics. Below that the row is not published at all. Several rows on this site are missing for exactly this reason.
p10–p90, never min–max. One unusually cheap practice and one Harley Street specialist should not define a range.
Manual verification of a random sample against the source pages before anything is published.

~ Estimate — editorial

Turkey, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechia, Croatia and Portugal have no public registry we can build a complete clinic list from. For those markets we compile ranges from published clinic price lists and industry sources, and we say how many. These are useful for orientation and should not be read as the same thing as the verified rows.

We would rather publish a labelled estimate than nothing, and rather publish nothing than an estimate dressed as data.

What every price includes

Advertised implant prices routinely quote the titanium fixture alone and add the abutment and crown later. Every implant figure on this site is for the complete tooth. This is the single most common way published comparisons mislead, and correcting it changes the numbers more than any other adjustment we make.

Currency and dates

Prices are held in local currency and converted using ECB reference rates. Every table shows when the data was collected. Fee pages change; we re-crawl each market quarterly.

What we don't do

No enquiry forms. No "request a quote". No phone number required to see a price.
No clinic pays to appear in a price table or to be excluded from one.
No self-reported prices. If a clinic has not published it, we have not recorded it.

Official sources

We are not one of these. Check anything on this page against them before you act on it.