Most clinics make you fill in a form to find out what a veneer costs. We publish it. This guide explains what cosmetic dental treatment in Turkey actually involves, what each option costs per tooth, how long you need to stay in Antalya, and how to tell a careful clinic from a fast one.
Written by the clinical team at LD Klinik, Çağlayan, Muratpaşa, Antalya. Reviewed by Dt. Levent Dağlar. Last updated .
It is not one procedure. It is a group of treatments that change the shape, colour, alignment or completeness of the teeth you show when you smile — and the right one for you depends far more on the condition of your existing teeth than on what you saw online.
The term covers everything from a single afternoon of whitening to a full-arch rebuild on implants. In Antalya you will see all of it advertised under the same banner, often under the same headline price, which is why patients arrive with a number in their head that has nothing to do with their own mouth.
Here is the honest version. Cosmetic dental work in Turkey falls into four groups, and they are not interchangeable:
| Group | What it does | Tooth structure removed | Typical case | From (per tooth) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitening | Lightens the natural shade of your own enamel | None | Healthy, well-aligned teeth that have stained with age, coffee or tobacco | £250 full course |
| Laminate veneers | Thin ceramic facings bonded to the front surface | Minimal — front surface only | Good underlying teeth with shade, chip or small gap complaints | £210 |
| Crowns | Full ceramic caps that cover the whole tooth | Significant — the tooth is reshaped all round | Heavily filled, root-treated, worn, broken or badly rotated teeth | £165 |
| Implant-supported work | Replaces teeth that are missing or unsaveable | N/A — the tooth is already gone | Gaps, failing teeth, long-term denture wearers | £390 implant + abutment |
Prices are LD Klinik's published list prices. Full price list further down this page.
Ceramic hides the surface. It does not treat what is underneath. If you have active gum disease, untreated decay, an unstable bite or a heavy grinding habit, those are dealt with first — otherwise the new work fails early and the guarantee is meaningless. This is the single most common reason a smile makeover goes wrong, and it has nothing to do with the country it was done in.
Using our published per-tooth prices. Choose how many teeth are visible when you smile, pick a material, and the total updates. No form, no email address, no callback.
Most people show 8–10 upper teeth when they smile. A full upper and lower makeover is usually 16–20.
This is an estimate built from published list prices, not a quote. Your final written quotation is fixed before you book a flight and can only change if you ask for something different after an examination. Prices exclude flights; hotel and airport transfers are included in our treatment packages.
These are list prices, not "from" prices. They are the same numbers on our prices page and the same numbers used in your written quotation.
| Treatment | GBP | EUR | USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cosmetic | |||
| Monolithic Zirconium Crown | £165 | €200 | $225 |
| E.max Crown | £210 | €240 | $280 |
| E.max Laminate Veneer | £210 | €240 | $280 |
| Temporary Zirconium Crown | £60 | €70 | $80 |
| Preparation & general | |||
| Professional Teeth Whitening with Cleaning | £250 | €285 | $330 |
| Teeth Cleaning | £60 | €70 | $80 |
| Deep Cleaning | £120 | €140 | $160 |
| Gum Contouring (per tooth) | £60 | €70 | $80 |
| White Filling | £70 | €80 | $95 |
| Root Canal Treatment (per root) | £100 | €115 | $135 |
| Dental Post | £60 | €70 | $80 |
| Tooth Extraction | £50 | €60 | $70 |
| Gum Shield (night guard) | £60 | €70 | $80 |
| Where implants are involved | |||
| Osstem Dental Implant with Abutment | £390 | €450 | $520 |
| Titanium Base (per jaw) | £350 | €400 | $470 |
| Bone Grafting (per cc) | £390 | €450 | $520 |
| Closed Sinus Lifting | £225 | €250 | $300 |
| Open Sinus Lifting | £390 | €450 | $520 |
| Surgical Tooth Extraction | £390 | €450 | $520 |
| Sedation (1 hour) | £390 | €450 | $520 |
Prices verified . Currency conversions are fixed by the clinic and are not live exchange rates, so the figure you are quoted is the figure you pay. See the complete price list.
Accommodation and airport transfers are built into our treatment packages. You are not booking a hotel yourself and claiming it back.
Temporary crowns are fitted between preparation and final placement so you are never without teeth, and never in the street with stumps.
A 5-year written guarantee on implants and prosthetics, issued as a document with your case details — not a verbal promise at the desk.
Patients usually arrive asking for a named procedure. It is more useful to describe the problem and let the examination pick the method. These are the four routes most cosmetic cases take.
Straight, healthy, unfilled teeth that have yellowed. The correct answer here is whitening — not ceramic. Whitening removes nothing and can be repeated. If a clinic pushes past this to a full set of crowns, ask why.
Underlying teeth are sound. Laminate veneers keep the back and sides of the tooth intact and only resurface what shows. Usually 6–10 upper teeth, occasionally matched on the lower arch.
Teeth already carrying large fillings or root canals cannot reliably hold a thin veneer. Full crowns are the appropriate choice: monolithic zirconium for strength in the back, E.max where light behaviour matters at the front.
Cosmetic work over gaps is a temporary illusion. Implants restore the foundation first, and the ceramic goes on top. This route takes two visits with healing in between, and is planned with a CBCT scan.
A veneer or crown case is normally completed in a single visit of five to seven days. This is the standard sequence. Implant cases follow a different, two-visit path — set out underneath.
Clinical examination, intra-oral scan and CBCT 3D imaging where needed. Your written plan and final price are confirmed before anything begins.
Shape, length, midline and shade are designed digitally against your face and agreed with you on screen. Changes are free at this stage and expensive later.
Teeth are prepared under local anaesthetic and temporary crowns fitted the same day. You leave with teeth, and you test-drive the design.
The finished ceramics are tried in unbonded. Shade, contact points and bite are checked. Anything you dislike is remade before it is cemented.
Final cementation, bite refinement, polish, and your guarantee document with the materials used. Aftercare instructions in your own language.
Implant-supported cosmetic work cannot be compressed into one week without cutting a corner somewhere. The honest sequence is two visits:
If a clinic offers you a permanent, final full-arch result in a single week from extraction, understand what is being promised and ask what happens when the gums recede during healing.
Material choice is the difference between a result that reads as teeth and one that reads as dentistry. Neither material below is universally better — they are used for different jobs.
Highly translucent glass ceramic. Light passes through it the way it passes through enamel, which is why it is the front-tooth material of choice. Used for laminate veneers and single anterior crowns. Less suited to heavy load in the back of the mouth.
Milled from a single block, so there is no porcelain layer to chip off. Considerably stronger under load, which makes it the sensible choice for molars, bridges and long spans. Modern multilayer zirconia has closed much of the old aesthetic gap.
Antalya (AYT) is a major leisure airport, which is the practical reason cosmetic dentistry concentrated here rather than in Istanbul: direct flights, high frequency and low fares from exactly the countries our patients fly from.
| Departing from | Direct flight time to Antalya | Language support at the clinic | Typical trip length |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Approx. 4h 15m – 4h 45m | English | 5–7 nights |
| Ireland | Approx. 4h 45m – 5h | English | 5–7 nights |
| Poland | Approx. 3h – 3h 30m | Polish, English | 5–7 nights |
| Romania | Approx. 2h – 2h 30m | English | 5–7 nights |
| Germany | Approx. 3h 15m – 3h 45m | German, English | 5–7 nights |
Flight durations are typical scheduled direct-service times and vary by departure airport, carrier and season. Check current schedules when booking.
Ask these of every clinic you shortlist, including this one. A clinic that answers all ten in writing, before a deposit, is a clinic worth flying to. We have deliberately not named any competitor — the point is the questions, not the comparison.
You are introduced to your treating clinician on day one and see the same person through the case. Our clinicians are active members of international dental bodies including ITI, ICOI and ESCD, and every dentist who treats you speaks English.
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Every case shown is an LD Klinik patient who gave written consent. Individual results vary — what your teeth can achieve depends on your starting point, and no photograph of someone else predicts your outcome.
At LD Klinik it depends entirely on how many teeth are treated and in what material. A monolithic zirconium crown is £165 per tooth, an E.max crown or laminate veneer is £210 per tooth, and professional whitening with cleaning is £250 for the course. A common ten-unit upper smile makeover therefore sits between £1,650 and £2,100 in treatment costs. Implant-supported work starts at £390 per implant with abutment. Your written quotation is itemised per tooth and fixed before you book a flight.
Safety depends on the clinic, not the country. The elements that make it safe are an in-person examination before the plan is finalised, imaging where surgery is involved, documented implant and ceramic brands, temporaries between stages, a try-in before final cementation, and a written guarantee. The cases that went badly and reached the media generally failed on the first of those — the plan was agreed from photographs rather than after an examination.
Five to seven days for a veneer or crown case, completed in a single visit. If implants are part of the plan, you need two visits of five to seven days each, separated by three to six months of healing at home. Anyone offering a final, permanent full-arch implant result in a single week is compressing a stage that should not be compressed.
A veneer is a thin ceramic facing bonded to the front surface of the tooth, removing very little tooth structure. A crown covers the whole tooth and requires it to be reshaped all round. Veneers suit healthy teeth with shade, chip or small gap complaints. Crowns are appropriate for heavily filled, root-treated, worn or badly rotated teeth. The choice is clinical, not cosmetic, and it is irreversible in the case of crowns.
Most people show six to ten upper teeth when smiling, which is why those numbers are most common. Wider smiles reveal the premolars, which is where sixteen and twenty-unit plans come from. The correct number is the point at which the ceramic ends and your natural teeth continue without a visible colour step — determined at your examination, on your own smile line.
That is a design decision, not a material limitation. The very white, very uniform look comes from choosing a bright shade with flat, identical tooth shapes. Natural results use slight length variation, translucency at the edges and a shade matched to your face and age. At LD Klinik the design is agreed with you on screen before any tooth is prepared, and you wear temporaries in that shape before the final ceramics are made.
Preparation and fitting are carried out under local anaesthetic, so the appointments themselves are not painful. Mild sensitivity to hot and cold is normal for a few days after preparation and while wearing temporaries, and settles once the final ceramics are bonded. Surgical procedures such as extractions and implant placement involve more post-operative soreness, managed with standard painkillers. Sedation is available where anxiety is a factor.
With good oral hygiene, regular check-ups and a night guard if you grind, well-fitted ceramic restorations commonly last ten to fifteen years and often longer. What shortens their life is gum disease, decay at the margins, and grinding. LD Klinik provides a 5-year written guarantee on implants and prosthetics; the guarantee document sets out precisely what is covered and what is excluded.
Contact the clinic first — most issues are minor and can be assessed from photographs, and many adjustments can be carried out by a local dentist with our instructions. Where a restoration is covered by the guarantee and needs remaking, that is arranged with us directly. Establish this process in writing before treatment, with any clinic, so that you know who to contact and what is covered before you need it.
Partly. The first two to three days are the clinically busy ones and are not a good time for excursions, sun exposure or alcohol. The back half of the week is lighter and most patients use it to see Antalya. Plan any significant sightseeing for after the final fitting rather than between stages.
Yes, and it is worth saying at the enquiry stage rather than on arrival, so the appointments can be paced accordingly. Longer consultation time, staged appointments and sedation are all available. Sedation is charged at £390 per hour and is agreed in advance as part of your written quotation.
The difference is operating cost, not material cost. Clinical salaries, premises, laboratory work and insurance are substantially lower in Türkiye, while the ceramics and implant systems are bought from the same international manufacturers. The saving is real, but it should never be the only reason to choose a clinic — compare the plan, the materials, the guarantee and the aftercare route before comparing the price.
Message a clear photo of your smile and tell us what you would change. You will get an itemised written quotation with the material named for each tooth — not a headline price, and no obligation to book anything.
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