How health tourism in Türkiye actually works
Türkiye licenses clinics that treat international patients. Most patients never hear about it, which is a shame, because it is the single most useful thing to check before you book.
Patient guides
In-depth articles on the questions that actually matter before treatment abroad — written to help you decide, not to sell you something.
These are the questions patients ask us before they book, answered at the length they deserve rather than in a paragraph. They include the answers that argue against travelling — because the decision only means something if both sides of it are on the page.
If you are at the start of this, read the cost guide first: it explains why two quotes for the same treatment can differ by a third, and what to check in each. If you already hold a plan from another clinic, send it to us and we will tell you in writing what we would do differently and why, at no charge — including the cases where we would do exactly the same thing.
Türkiye licenses clinics that treat international patients. Most patients never hear about it, which is a shame, because it is the single most useful thing to check before you book.
Almost every dental tourism website points at Istanbul. Here is what that concentration costs you clinically, and what Ankara offers instead — including where Istanbul genuinely wins.
Nine things you can verify from your own kitchen table before you spend anything, and the specific answers that should end the conversation.
The hotel and the airport transfer are the cheapest things in an all-inclusive dental package. The costly items are the ones most often outside it.
Implant quotes from Turkish clinics can differ by a factor of three for what looks like the same treatment. Here is what is actually inside those numbers.
Most veneer horror stories come down to one thing: too much enamel removed. These six questions tell you whether a clinic works the careful way.
All-on-4 is often sold as "teeth in a day". That is true of the temporary bridge — and misleading about everything else. Here is the real timeline.
Send a photo or a panoramic X-ray and receive a treatment plan, a schedule and a fixed quote within one working day. No cost, no obligation.