The Truth About €399 Dental Implants: What Is Missing From That Price

A very low implant price is usually accurate and incomplete at the same time. Here is what it excludes, how the final bill is built back up, and what is genuinely being cut.

Written and kept up to date by the CureBooking medical travel team · Last updated October 2026

The short answer

A headline price like €399 is normally the implant fixture alone — the titanium post. It does not include the crown that goes on top, and an implant without a crown is not a tooth.

Add the parts that are always needed and the real figure appears: the abutment, the crown, the 3D scan, the examination. Our own prices are deliberately itemised for this reason: implant from €500, zirconia crown from €160, CBCT €250, examination €70 — so you can see what a complete tooth costs instead of what its cheapest component costs.

The offers worth worrying about are not the ones that are merely incomplete. They are the ones where the saving is real and comes out of the clinical work: no 3D scan before placement, an unbranded implant with no passport, a crown from an outsourced laboratory, too many implants in one sitting, and nobody to call afterwards.

How a €399 quote becomes the real bill

Line	Often excluded from the headline	Our price
Examination	Yes	€70
CBCT 3D scan	Yes — sometimes skipped entirely	€250
Implant fixture	This is the headline	from €500
Abutment	Usually bundled with the crown, sometimes separate	in the crown price
Crown on the implant	Yes — the biggest omission	from €160
Bone graft, if needed	Yes	€250
Sinus lift, if needed	Yes	€300
Second visit for the final crown	Rarely mentioned	in the plan

Grafting and a sinus lift are charged only where the scan shows they are needed — a plan that includes them by default for everyone is padding, and one that never mentions them has not looked.

The four savings that actually cost you

No 3D scan. The two serious complications of implant placement — nerve injury in the lower jaw, sinus perforation in the upper — are visible on a CBCT before they happen. Skipping the scan saves €250 and removes the step that prevents them.
An unbranded implant with no documentation. If no dentist in your own country can identify the system, a loose abutment screw in year three becomes a removal rather than a repair. Ask for the system name and an implant passport in your name; we issue one as standard with Straumann Group (Neodent) systems.
An outsourced laboratory. When the technician is in another city, a crown that does not quite fit is more likely to be cemented anyway, because the alternative is a courier round trip and a missed flight. A margin that is slightly off is invisible on the day and becomes decay in five years.
Volume over sequence: a full mouth in one week, or sixteen units prepared in two days. Bone does not fuse to titanium in a week, and a bite built in a hurry is a bite you live with.

What a fair low price looks like

Turkish prices are genuinely much lower than Western European ones, and the reason is not a cheaper standard of dentistry: staffing, premises and laboratory costs are a fraction, and clinics that treat international patients daily keep their teams and laboratories fully occupied. That is where the saving legitimately comes from.

So a low price is not automatically a warning. An unitemised price is. A complete written plan at €500 to €700 per implant plus €160 or more per crown, with a 3D scan, a named implant system, a passport, an in-house laboratory and a written warranty, is a real offer. The same total with none of those things named is a number, not an offer.

The five-minute test on any quote

Does the price include the crown? If not, the price is for a post, not a tooth.
Which implant system, by name and manufacturer? Will I get a passport?
Is a CBCT taken before placement and is it in the price?
Is the crown made in your own laboratory?
How many visits, how many nights, and what is fitted in between?
What does the warranty cover, for how long, and what voids it?

What we do differently, and what we will not claim

Our price list is published per item rather than as one bundled figure, because bundling is where the omissions hide. Your written quote follows a photograph or X-ray review before you book anything, and it names the implant system, the crown material and the number of visits.

What you will not find on this site: a success percentage, an award, a count of happy patients, or a before-and-after gallery we cannot prove belongs to a consenting patient. We removed a set of AI-generated before-and-after images from this site in September 2026 for exactly that reason. The real numbers we do publish — the licence (ST-0974), the implant systems, the warranties, and the partner clinic's 4.6 rating from 227 Google reviews as of September 2026 — are the ones that have a source.

Questions people ask

Is a €399 implant a scam?

Usually not a scam, just incomplete — it is the fixture price without the crown. It becomes a problem when the discount is funded by skipping the scan, the branded system or the follow-up. Ask what is included and the picture resolves quickly.

How much should a complete implant tooth cost in Turkey?

With us, from €660 for an implant and a zirconia crown, plus the €250 scan and €70 examination, and grafting only if the scan shows it is needed. Your figure comes in writing after a review of your X-rays, not over the phone.

Are cheap implants lower-quality titanium?

The metal is rarely the issue. The difference is in the surface treatment, the manufacturing tolerances of the connection between implant and abutment, the clinical research behind the system, and whether replacement parts will exist in ten years.

Can I bring a cheap quote and ask you to match it?

You can ask, and you will get an honest answer about what the two quotes contain rather than a matched number. If a competitor includes the same scan, system, laboratory and warranty for less, that is a real comparison and worth having.