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We counted every dental clinic on Turkey's biggest medical-tourism listing. Five published a price.

Reviewed by our editorial team·Updated 2026-09-04·General information

If you search for dental implants in Turkey, you land on a directory. It shows you a few hundred clinics, star ratings, and a price like "$400 – $600". It looks like a market you can compare.

We wanted to know what was actually behind that. So between 31 August and 4 September 2026 we did something tedious: we walked every page of the largest such listing for dental implants in Turkey — Bookimed's — recorded every clinic card, and then started opening the clinics' own websites one at a time to see what they publish themselves.

This is what we found. Every number below is a count, taken on a stated date, from a page anyone can open.

The listing advertises 282 clinics. It serves 279.

The page headline reads "Best Dental Implant Clinics in Turkey: 282 Top-Rated Centers". We walked all 29 pages of it, in order, on 31 August 2026. Twenty-six pages carried ten cards each; three carried nine. The listing serves 279 cards, not 282.

That gap of three is small and it is the least interesting thing here. We mention it only because it is the first check anybody could have done, and because we got it wrong ourselves first: we assumed 28 pages of ten plus a short page of two came to exactly 282, which is arithmetic fitted to a headline rather than a count of what is on the pages. Walking the remaining pages is what corrected it.

Not all 279 are clinics

A directory of clinics ought to contain clinics. Sorting every card by what the business actually is:

• 221 are dental clinics or hospitals with a dental department
• 43 could not be identified as dental clinics at all from their listing — several price nothing but rhinoplasty, kidney transplants or breast surgery
• 14 are agencies: medical-travel companies that book other people's clinics
• 1 is a group's marketing name rather than a single premises

We did not delete any of them. Each is recorded with what it appears to be, and where we could not tell, we wrote "unknown" rather than guessing.

More than half of the listings show no price at all

Of the 279 cards, 154 — 55% — print no price of any kind. They show a rating, a city and a "Get a quote" button.

The share is not even. Across the first 140 cards it was 46%. Across all 279 it is 55%. The further down the ranking you go, the less likely a clinic is to show you a number. The cards that look most like a price comparison are at the top; the tail is a contact form.

Then we opened the clinics' own websites

A platform's price is the platform's claim. The clinic's own published price list is a stronger thing: it is what the business itself says it charges. So we took the 60 highest-ranked clinics on that listing and went looking for each one's own website.

Of those 60:

• 5 publish a price list of any kind
• 29 have a working website that publishes no prices — a treatment menu, a contact form, and no figures. Several have a page called prices that is no longer there
• 21 had no own website we could find. That is honestly phrased: for each one we recorded which domains we tried and what each returned, and "we could not find it" is not the same claim as "it does not exist"
• 5 refuse all automated access — they return an error to any request that is not a person in a browser, so we cannot say what they publish

Look closely at those five and it thins further. Three are substantial lists in a currency a British patient would be quoted in — two in euros, one in pounds. The fourth is a single line on a page otherwise selling cosmetic surgery. The fifth is a Turkish lira list aimed at local patients, carrying no effective date, which in an economy where prices move month to month is close to unusable for planning a trip abroad.

Three of sixty publish a price list in a foreign currency that you could actually plan around.

The counter-intuitive part

Several of these clinics run a separate English-language website, or a /en/ section, built specifically for foreign patients. That is where you would expect to find a price in pounds or euros, because that is the audience it exists for.

We opened four of them. Together they run to about 1.5 megabytes of pages. Between them they publish not one figure in any currency.

The English sites these clinics build for international patients are, in our sample, the least likely to carry a price. We are not going to speculate about why. We are only reporting that we looked.

What this does and does not mean

It does not mean these are bad clinics. Not publishing a price is a normal commercial decision, and plenty of good dentists quote only after seeing your mouth and an X-ray. That is a defensible position and in some ways an honest one.

It does not mean the platform is dishonest either. A directory that lists 279 businesses is a real directory.

What it means is narrower and more useful to you: a listing that looks like a price comparison is mostly not one. More than half the entries have no price. Of the ones that do, the number is the platform's summary, not the clinic's own published list — and when you go to the clinic's own site to check it, five times out of sixty is how often you find one.

So the comparison you think you are making, you are usually not making.

What to do with that

• Ask for the itemised list, in writing, before you travel. Not "how much for implants" — the fixture, the abutment, the crown, and what happens if a graft is needed. Our guide on the real cost of dental implants abroad sets out what to ask for.
• Treat a platform's "from" price as advertising, not a quote. It is a summary written by an intermediary, and the clinic may never have published it.
• A clinic that will not put a number in writing before you fly is telling you something. It may be entirely reasonable. It is still information.
• Check the person, not just the price. How to check a dentist's credentials covers the registers.

Our method, so you can check it

• Dates. The listing was walked 31 August – 1 September 2026. Clinic websites were opened 3–4 September 2026.
• What we counted. Every card on all 29 pages of the listing, recorded with the page it came from and its position on that page.
• How we decided a clinic had a website. A domain counted only if it returned a page, the clinic's own name appeared in that page's text, the page contained dental content, and it was not a parked or for-sale domain. We adopted that test after a looser one — does a domain respond at all — wrongly told us that a New York jewellery manufacturer and two parked domains were clinic websites.
• What we did not do. We did not visit any clinic, we did not contact them, and we are not ranking them. We have not named individual clinics here, because none of them is a vetted partner of ours and a page like this is not the place to attach a business's name to a judgement it has had no chance to answer.
• Where we were wrong. Twice, and both are noted above: the 282 arithmetic, and the website test. We keep the corrections in the open because a page that only ever reports its successes is not a page you should trust with a number.

We publish the prices we could verify, how many clinics we could not price at all, and the bar a clinic has to clear before we will call it a partner. This count is the reason that bar exists.