Bone grafting in Istanbul to rebuild jaw bone before dental implants, planned and performed inside Private Florya Hospital with sedation available. Dental Bone Graft A bone graft is a procedure that rebuilds jawbone where bone has been lost, so that the jaw can support a dental implant or hold its shape. It is one of the most common preparatory procedures in modern dentistry, and for many people it is the step that makes implant treatment possible at all. WHY JAWBONE IS LOST The bone of the jaw exists to hold teeth. When a tooth is removed, the bone that surrounded its root no longer has a job to do, and the body gradually reabsorbs it. This happens fastest in the first months after an extraction and then continues slowly for years. The ridge becomes narrower and shorter, which is why someone who lost a tooth a decade ago often has far less bone there than they expect. Bone can also be lost for other reasons: advanced gum disease, which destroys the bone around the roots of teeth still in place; an injury to the jaw; a cyst or an infection; or long-term wear of a denture pressing on the ridge. WHY A GRAFT MAY BE NEEDED A dental implant is placed into bone, and it needs enough bone around it in every direction to be stable and to stay healthy long-term. Where there is not enough height or width, a graft adds what is missing. There are also situations where bone is grafted without an implant in mind — to repair a defect after a cyst or infection has been removed, to rebuild the shape of a ridge that has collapsed under a denture, or to protect the bone around a neighbouring tooth. THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GRAFT MATERIAL Four kinds of material are used in dentistry, and they are often combined. Your own bone (autograft). Taken from elsewhere in your own jaw, most often the back of the lower jaw or the chin. It contains your own living bone cells, which makes it the biological reference standard, but it requires a second site to be operated on. Human donor bone (allograft). Processed and sterilised bone from a tissue bank, supplied under strict regulation. It acts as a scaffold that your own bone grows into and gradually replaces. Animal-derived bone (xenograft). Most commonly of bovine origin, processed so that only the mineral structure remains. It is very widely used, and it is slow to reabsorb, which makes it useful where the shape of the ridge needs to be held over time. Synthetic material (alloplast). Laboratory-made mineral, usually a calcium phosphate, which performs the same scaffolding role without any human or animal origin. Which is used depends on how much bone is needed, where, and what the bone will have to do afterwards. If the origin of the material matters to you for personal, religious or dietary reasons, this is a reasonable question to ask before treatment and there are options in every category. THE MAIN TECHNIQUES Socket preservation is a graft placed into the socket immediately after a tooth is taken out, to limit the shrinkage that would otherwise follow. It is the simplest form, and it is done at the time of the extraction rather than as a separate operation. Ridge augmentation rebuilds a ridge that has already become too narrow or too short, usually using graft material held in place by a membrane and sometimes small fixing pins or screws. Guided bone regeneration is the general term for using a membrane to cover the graft. The membrane keeps the faster-growing gum tissue out while the slower-growing bone fills the space underneath. Block grafting uses a solid piece of bone, fixed in place with small screws, where a larger volume has to be rebuilt. Sinus lifting is a specific technique for the upper back jaw and is covered on its own page. WHAT THE PROCEDURE INVOLVES Most bone grafts are carried out under local anaesthetic, with sedation or general anaesthesia available where the case is larger or the patient prefers it. The gum is opened to expose the bone, the area is prepared, the graft material is placed and shaped, a membrane is positioned over it if one is being used, and the gum is closed with stitches. A small graft takes a matter of minutes. A larger reconstruction takes longer. In some cases an implant can be placed at the same time as the graft; in others the graft has to heal first before the implant can be placed. HEALING The graft material is not new bone in itself. It is a scaffold, and over the following months your own body grows into it and converts it into living bone. That process cannot be rushed. As a general guide, a small graft placed at the same time as an implant heals alongside it, while a graft that must heal before an implant can be placed usually needs somewhere between three and nine months, depending on its size and the material used. The first week is the part you will notice. Swelling is normal and usually peaks around the second or third day. Bruising is common. Discomfort is generally manageable with ordinary painkillers. Your dentist will give you specific instructions, which usually include eating soft food, avoiding the area when brushing, not smoking, and not disturbing the site with your tongue or finger. THINGS THAT AFFECT THE RESULT Smoking is the single most significant factor within a patient's control. It reduces the blood supply that healing depends on and is associated with a higher failure rate for grafts and implants alike. Gum health. Grafting into a mouth with untreated gum disease is building on poor foundations, so gum treatment usually comes first. General health. Poorly controlled diabetes, some medications — particularly certain drugs used for osteoporosis and in cancer care — and treatments such as radiotherapy to the jaws all affect how bone heals, and need to be known about and planned around before any graft is carried out. Following the aftercare instructions, particularly in the first two weeks, while the graft is at its most vulnerable. QUESTIONS PATIENTS ASK Is it painful? The procedure itself is done under anaesthetic, so it is not painful at the time. Afterwards, most people describe soreness and swelling rather than severe pain, and ordinary painkillers are usually enough. Will my body reject the graft? Graft materials are processed so that they contain no living cells and cannot be rejected in the way an organ transplant can. A graft can fail to integrate — most often because of infection, smoking or movement of the site — but that is a different thing from rejection. Is donor or animal-derived material safe? These materials are produced under strict regulatory control and are processed to remove any biological material that could transmit disease. They have been in routine use in dentistry for decades. How long before I can have my implant? It depends entirely on the size of the graft. Sometimes the implant goes in at the same time. Where the graft must heal first, several months are usually needed. What happens if a graft fails? It can usually be redone. The reason for the failure matters, because it needs to be addressed before trying again. Can I avoid needing a graft? Sometimes. Having a graft placed at the time of an extraction limits the bone loss that would otherwise occur. Where bone has already been lost, there are also implant techniques designed for reduced bone volume, which may avoid the need for extensive grafting. See Our Prices Get Your Free Treatment Plan

Full smile makeover with crowns or veneers in Istanbul, done inside a general hospital. Hotel and transfers arranged, 5-year treatment guarantee. Hollywood Smile in Turkey "Hollywood Smile" is not a dental treatment. It is a package — and in most clinics the number of teeth in that package was decided before anyone looked in your mouth. This page explains what is actually being sold, what it costs your teeth, and what we do differently. IS "HOLLYWOOD SMILE" A REAL DENTAL TREATMENT? No. It is a marketing term, and we would rather tell you that on our own page than let you find out afterwards. There is no dental classification, clinical guideline or nomenclature anywhere that defines a "Hollywood Smile". The closest the British dental literature comes is a 2018 British Dental Journal piece that treats it as a cultural ideal — "straight and pearly white teeth" — with no measurements, no diagnostic criteria and no procedure attached. We searched the position statements of the General Dental Council, the British Dental Association, the American Dental Association and the FDI World Dental Federation. None of them has a definition of the term. It exists in advertising, not in dentistry. So what is in the box when you buy one? WHAT IS ACTUALLY IN A HOLLYWOOD SMILE PACKAGE? Look at how these packages are priced on the booking platforms, in their own words: 20 zirconia crowns for around $5,500 24 crowns with gum treatment for $6,990 "Each additional crown beyond 20 costs about $200" Read the unit. The product is crowns, priced per crown, sold in blocks of twenty — and the word "veneer" is often used for the same item in the same sentence. A veneer is a thin facing on the front of the tooth. A crown covers the whole tooth, all the way round. The difference is how much of your own tooth is cut away: Tooth structure removed Veneerup to 30% Full ceramic crown (front tooth)62–73% (Kelleher, British Dental Journal, 2012) Two-thirds of a healthy front tooth is a large, permanent thing to give up. It does not grow back, and no guarantee anywhere replaces it. That is the transaction inside the phrase "Hollywood Smile". Whether it is the right transaction for you is a clinical question — which is why it cannot be answered by a package size. HOW MANY TEETH DOES A HOLLYWOOD SMILE NEED? There is no clinical literature that supports 20 teeth, or 28, or 32. We looked for it. It does not exist. Those numbers track price tiers, not anatomy. The platforms say so themselves when they charge "$200 per additional crown" — that is a pricing rule, not a diagnosis. What the literature does give us is how many teeth actually show. In a published smile analysis of 157 people, teeth were visible back to the first premolars in 35.7% of subjects, and the number of teeth on display differed significantly between men and women (BDJ Open, 2020). A separate 2023 study found that the ideal width of your smile is defined relative to your own eye spacing, not a fixed figure. And here is the part that argues directly against big numbers: a 2025 study of 180 observers found that width disproportion matters progressively less as you move from the central incisor toward the canine. The aesthetic return per tooth falls the further back you go. The same study found something worth knowing before anyone sells you a full-arch case: a midline deviation of up to 2 mm was not noticeable to laypeople or to dentists. The flaws patients come in worrying about are often not the flaws that affect how a smile reads. So the honest answer to "how many teeth" is: as many as are visible in your smile and have something actually wrong with them. Usually that is fewer than twenty. Sometimes it is four. A clinic that fixes the number before the examination has reversed the order of the diagnosis. LET'S TALK ABOUT "TURKEY TEETH" PROPERLY You have seen the coverage. We are not going to pretend it does not exist, and we are not going to tell you it is all unfair — because some of it is not. Here is what the evidence actually says, including the parts that are inconvenient for us. What British dentists report. The British Dental Association surveyed 1,000 UK dentists in 2022. 86% had treated patients with problems following overseas treatment. The treatment most likely to need follow-up was crowns, at 87%. On cost of repair: 65% reported over £500, 51% over £1,000, and 20% over £5,000. More than 40% of that remedial work was carried out on the NHS. We publish that on our own treatment page because you are going to find it anyway, and because a clinic that has read it should be easier to trust than one that has not. What that survey does not say. It is a survey of dentists' experience, not a study of patient outcomes. It tells you how many dentists see problems. It does not tell you what proportion of patients have them. Those are different questions, and the difference matters. And the number nobody can source. You will see figures quoted for what percentage of "Turkey teeth" cases fail. We went looking for the study behind them. There is no case series, no cohort study and no registry. Any specific failure percentage you are shown for Turkish dentistry is unsourced — including any we might be tempted to quote at you. What the peer-reviewed analysis of the coverage found. In 2025 the British Dental Journal published a framework analysis of 131 UK newspaper articles about dental tourism. Its findings: 92.4% of the coverage appeared in tabloids; 80.9% in The Sun or Daily Mail titles. The authors describe the way "Turkey teeth" has come to stand for all overseas dentistry as "unfair and inappropriate." The coverage failed to distinguish cosmetic dental tourism from people travelling simply because they could not get an NHS appointment. The authors state that no objective evidence demonstrates that overseas care produces worse outcomes than domestic treatment. That is not a Turkish clinic defending itself. That is the British dental profession's own journal. So what is the real problem? The same literature answers it. The UK dentists quoted in that coverage were unanimous in recommending the least destructive option first — whitening, bonding, orthodontics — over cutting teeth down for crowns. The problem is not the country. It is selling twenty crowns to a mouth that needed eight veneers, or whitening, or nothing at all. That happens in Istanbul. It also happens on Harley Street. It happens wherever the package is decided before the examination. WHAT HAPPENS TO A HEALTHY TOOTH WHEN YOU CROWN IT This is the part of the conversation that package pricing is designed to skip. A crown on a front tooth removes 62–73% of the tooth (Kelleher, BDJ 2012). Crowns that are not placed by a specialist or are not executed properly can subsequently lead to pain, bad breath smell, or dislodgement. Although these issues can be resolved with a revision procedure, they significantly compromise patient comfort. THE "GOLDEN RATIO" YOUR SMILE DESIGN IS BASED ON DOES NOT EXIST Almost every clinic offering smile design says it designs to the golden proportion — the 62% ratio. A study at the University of Birmingham School of Dentistry measured the front teeth of 509 people in the UK. The findings: The Golden Proportion "existed in a very limited number of the sample" The RED Proportion did not exist in the sample at all Preston's Proportion had "too wide a distribution to be of relevant use" (Kalia, British Dental Journal, 2020) A systematic review of 52 studies across global populations reached the same conclusion: the golden proportion is not found consistently anywhere, appearing in under 20% of natural dentitions in several populations, and varying by geography and ancestry (Applied Sciences, 2022). What the Birmingham data did support was a modified golden percentage: central incisor 22.5%, lateral 15%, canine 12.5% of the visible anterior width. That is a useful reference. It is not a law of beauty, and it does not describe your face. So when a clinic shows you a smile overlaid with golden-ratio lines, you are looking at a design heuristic from the 1980s presented as biology. We design to your lip line, your tooth display and your face — and we will show you the photographs we measured it from. WHY YOU WILL WALK OUT WHITER THAN YOU INTENDED This is our favourite piece of evidence on this page, because it explains something no clinic will tell you about its own sales process. A randomised controlled trial published in the Journal of Prosthodontics (2026) took 210 patients seeking aesthetic treatment and changed one thing only: the order in which the shade tabs were shown. Shown natural shades first, then bleached shades: 84.3% chose a bleached shade Shown bleached shades first, then natural: 31.4% Same patients. Same tabs. A 53 percentage point difference from sequence alone. Patients in the first group changed their mind between first impression and final choice 31.4% of the time. In the second group, 1.4%. And patients with greater psychosocial concern about their appearance chose significantly lighter shades (p<0.001). Read that last line again. The patients most easily pushed toward an unnatural shade are the ones most anxious about their teeth — which is to say, the patients who walked in most vulnerable. Our protocol, because of that study: we show you the full shade range at once, with a confirmation step, which is the presentation method that produced the smallest disagreement between what the patient wanted and what the clinician recorded in that trial. We do not lead with the bleach tabs. If you still want the brightest shade after seeing the whole range twice, that is your decision and we will make it well. But it will be your decision. WHAT WE DO INSTEAD OF SELLING YOU A PACKAGE We examine first, and the plan comes from the examination. Photographs and X-rays reviewed before you book a flight. A written plan, tooth by tooth, naming which teeth get what and why. We look inside the tooth before we prepare it. Some of the teeth in a smile makeover plan turn out to have decay or infection inside them, and those teeth need root canal treatment before a crown goes on. If we find one, we tell you what it adds in days and in cost, and we change the plan. We do not crown over an infected tooth to finish inside your travel dates — because the crown comes off again when the pain starts. [ Root canal treatment before a crown → ] We start from the least destructive option that solves your case. Whitening, then composite bonding, then veneers, then crowns — in that order, and we stop at the first one that works. That order is not our house style; it is what the UK dentists quoted in the BDJ's 2025 review unanimously recommended. Whitening is worth being accurate about too: the Cochrane review of 71 trials rates the evidence for home whitening as low certainty, with sensitivity and irritation as the usual side effects — "typically mild and transient". That is a modest treatment with a modest risk profile. It is a categorically different proposition from removing two-thirds of a tooth, and that asymmetry, not a claim of superiority, is the argument. We use a trial smile — for the drill, not for the sales pitch. In a 12-year study of 66 patients and 580 veneers, using an additive mock-up to guide preparation kept 80% of preparations inside enamel, and where the preparation stayed in enamel the debonding failure rate was 0% (Gürel et al., 2012). Enamel is what the ceramic bonds to. Staying inside it is the single most important thing your dentist can do for the twenty years after you fly home. We will tell you when the answer is "fewer". If four teeth show when you smile, we are not treating ten. If your gums are the problem rather than your teeth — and at 4 mm of gum display, around 90% of both dentists and laypeople rate a smile least attractive (Scientific Reports, 2023) — then gum contouring may fix it without touching a tooth at all. We will also tell you when the answer is "not us". Significant crowding is an orthodontic problem. Correcting it with ceramic means cutting teeth to compensate for their position, and the honest recommendation is aligners or braces first. We would rather lose the case than give you that. HOW LONG WILL IT LAST? THE ANSWER NOBODY GIVES YOU STRAIGHT You will see "lifetime" and "permanent" on other pages. Here is what the published data says. Veneers, pooled across 29 studies at about 10 years: MaterialSurvivalTechnical complicationsAestheticBiological Feldspathic ceramic96.13%41.48%19.64%6.51% Leucite-reinforced93.70%29.87%17.89%4.4% Lithium disilicate (e.max)96.81%6.1%1.9%0.45% (Klein et al., Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry, 2024) Now read those two columns together, because this is the sentence that matters most on this page: "Survival" in this literature means the restoration is still in your mouth. It does not mean nothing happened to it. Feldspathic veneers "survive" at 96% while carrying a 41% technical complication rate over the same decade. Another analysis found that only 53% of porcelain veneers had needed no re-intervention at all by ten years (Kelleher, BDJ 2012). Crowns, for context: tooth-supported single crowns survive at 93.3% (all-ceramic) and 95.6% (metal-ceramic) at five years (Pjetursson et al., 2007). If you are shown crown survival figures of 98% or higher, check whether they are for implant-supported crowns — those are a different restoration and the figures are routinely misquoted. Zirconia veneers: the pooled data shows 100% survival and no complications — at an average follow-up of 2.6 years. The authors of that analysis explicitly call for long-term data. We place them where they are indicated. We are not going to present under three years of follow-up as proof of anything. Gum margins move. Recession at crown margins measures 0.3–0.6 mm at five years for a chamfer margin and often over 0.5 mm long term for a shoulder margin (Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2025). Over twenty years that is the mechanism by which a margin becomes a visible line at the gum. It is also why aesthetic crowns create a genuine conflict: hiding the join wants a margin under the gum, and gum health wants it above. And what we cannot tell you. There is no published figure for how often a full-arch aesthetic case needs complete replacement, no study of what it costs over thirty years, and no cohort following what happens to the teeth underneath across successive replacements. Every replacement removes a little more tooth — that is mechanically certain and has never been measured. No clinic can honestly quote you a thirty-year number. Including this one. Anyone who does is guessing. WHO LOOKS AFTER YOU WHEN YOU GET HOME? This is the strongest argument British and Irish dentists make against treatment abroad, and they are right to make it. Their point, in their words, is that dentists at home will not take on a case another dentist started — so if something goes wrong you have to fly back. It is the one objection no clinic in Turkey answers. Here is our answer, and we have written down exactly where it stops. We work with [N] partner dental clinics: [ŞEHİR 1], [ŞEHİR 2], [ŞEHİR 3], [ŞEHİR 4], [ŞEHİR 5], [ŞEHİR 6]. They are marked on the map below. We list the cities rather than just the number, because a number is a claim and a city is something you can check. What happens if a problem arises after you fly home: You contact us first, through the official channels on this site. We arrange a diagnosis. If we have a partner dentist or clinic in your region, we refer you there — for examination and X-rays only — and they report their findings to us, so what happens next is decided on evidence rather than on a photograph you took with your phone. If we do not have a partner in your region, you describe the problem and its history to us directly, send photographs, and our dentists in Istanbul review it. If the problem is covered by your guarantee — that is, if it arises from treatment we performed — we invite you to Istanbul and carry out the revision free of charge: the dentist's work, the materials and the laboratory work. What the partner clinics do not do: they do not carry out your treatment. They are not our branches, they are not your new dentist, and they do not take your case over. Their job is to find out what is wrong, quickly and close to home, and to tell us. That is deliberate. The clinic that placed the work is the clinic that should be correcting it — and we would rather fly you back to the team that knows your case than hand it to someone reading your file for the first time. Alongside that: A 5-year written guarantee, issued as a signed document in your name with your passport number, on the day treatment begins. Not a verbal promise, not a web page. A document you leave Istanbul holding. A named clinician and a written, tooth-by-tooth record, so any dentist anywhere — ours, our partner's, or your own — can see exactly what was done to which tooth, with what material. A guarantee is only as strong as the document behind it. [ Read Our Guarantee Policy → ] AND WHY INSIDE A HOSPITAL? Our dental unit is a registered medical unit of Özel Florya Hospital — a full general hospital with a 24-hour emergency department, intensive care, and consultants across the general specialties in the building. That matters most for two groups of patients. If you are managing a chronic condition — heart disease, high blood pressure, a respiratory condition, diabetes, or oncology follow-up — you are the patient most clinics quietly prefer to decline. Florya can take you. If you are frightened of the dentist, sedation is available to any patient who needs it, with an anaesthetist and an intensive care unit in the same building. If fear is the reason you have put this off for years, that is a different proposition from sedation in a high-street clinic. Choose your clinic for what it can do if something goes wrong — not for what it charges. [ Dental treatment when you have a medical condition → ] QUESTIONS PATIENTS ASK So do you do Hollywood Smile or not? We do the treatments people mean by it — veneers, crowns, bonding, whitening, gum contouring — planned from your examination rather than sold as a block of twenty. If you came here wanting a set number of teeth done, we will probably suggest a smaller plan, and we will show you why on your own photographs. Is a Hollywood Smile crowns or veneers? In most packages sold by unit count, it is crowns. Ask the clinic to write down which one is planned for each tooth before you pay a deposit. If they will not put it in writing, that is your answer. Can I get one without my teeth being filed down? Sometimes, depending on the position and condition of your teeth. Where the case allows it, a no-prep veneer leaves 95–100% of your enamel intact. Where it does not, we will tell you rather than pretend. What if one of my teeth turns out to need a root canal? Then it has one before the crown goes on, and we tell you what that adds in days and in cost before we prepare anything. A crown covers the outside of a tooth and does nothing to the inside, so crowning over an infected tooth means the crown has to be cut off later. How many days will I need in Istanbul? 4 to 6 days for veneers, 5 to 7 for crowns, 2 to 3 for composite bonding. If your natural teeth need whitening first, that has to be a separate stage — bond strength drops sharply for about two weeks after bleaching, so we will not compress both into one trip to make the schedule look shorter. Can I be sedated? Yes, for any patient who needs it. What if something goes wrong after I have flown home? Contact us first. If we have a partner dentist or clinic in your region, we refer you there for examination and X-rays, and they report their findings to us. If we do not have a partner in your region, you tell us what has happened and send photographs, and our dentists in Istanbul review it. If the problem falls under your guarantee, we invite you to Istanbul and put it right free of charge. Read the guarantee policy, including what it does not cover, before you travel. Can the partner clinic treat me instead of me flying back? No, and we would rather say so now than after you need it. The partner clinics examine and diagnose; the treatment is done by us, in Istanbul, by the team that did the original work and has your records. We think that produces a better result than handing your case to a clinic seeing it for the first time. Why is it so much cheaper in Turkey? Staff costs, laboratory costs, property costs and currency, plus a domestic market that has a great many dental graduates. Not different ceramic and not different implants — we publish the brands we use. What price does not change is how much of your tooth has to be removed, which is why choosing on price alone is choosing on the wrong variable. Can I see before-and-after photographs? Yes, of real patients, with their consent, and we will tell you what treatment each case actually had — including how many teeth and whether they were veneers or crowns. How much does it cost? Our prices are published per tooth, in pounds sterling. We do not quote by package, because a package is a price attached to a number we have not yet had a reason to choose. See Our Prices Get Your Free Treatment Plan

Combine dental treatment with facial aesthetic surgery in one Istanbul trip: fewer flights, an extra discount and usually only 1-2 more days. Combined Facial Aesthetic YOUR SMILE AND YOUR FACE, PLANNED TOGETHER Nobody looks at your teeth on their own. If you wish, we can combine the beauty of your smile with the beauty of your face. All in a single visit. Facial rejuvenation with Dr. Fatma Soysuren. To see the details you can visit www.fatmasoysuren.com That is why you can have both done here, on the same trip, by one group: your dental treatment with Casas Clinics, and your facial surgery with Op. Dr. Fatma Soysüren, in the same hospital. WHY A NEW SMILE SOMETIMES STILL LOOKS WRONG What you gain by planning them together. A result that looks like you, only better rested and more confident. Your new teeth are designed with the proportions of your actual face in mind — your lip line, how much tooth shows when you talk, the balance between your nose, your chin, your cheeks and your smile. That is the difference between teeth that look expensive and a face that looks right. What you risk by doing the teeth alone. You spend a great deal of money on a perfect set of teeth and come home faintly disappointed, without being able to say why. The teeth are not the problem. The frame around them was never part of the plan. And by then the teeth are done — so the only thing left to change is the harder, more expensive half. Plan the whole face once. It is cheaper than correcting half of it twice. IT ADDS ONE OR TWO DAYS. IT COSTS YOU LESS. This is the part most people expect to go the other way, so we will be direct about it. Time. Adding facial surgery to your dental treatment extends your stay in Istanbul by one to two days at most, depending on the size of the operation. Not a second trip. Not another fortnight. One or two days on a trip you were already making. Money. Because both are carried out by the same group, in the same hospital, on the same visit, you pay less than you would for the two separately — we apply a combined discount when your treatment includes both. You also pay for one set of flights instead of two, one hotel stay instead of two, and one block of time away from work. What you risk doing it separately. Two trips, two years apart, two lots of annual leave, two recoveries in front of the same colleagues and neighbours — and the full price for each. Most people who plan it in stages never finish the second stage at all. Not because they changed their mind, but because life got in the way. The hardest part of treatment abroad is the time, not the treatment. Doing it once is the single biggest saving on this page. WHO WILL OPERATE ON YOUR FACE Our facial surgery is carried out by Op. Dr. Fatma Soysüren, an ear, nose, throat, face and neck surgeon based in Istanbul, whose work is focused on combined facial aesthetic surgery — the whole face planned and treated as one, rather than one feature at a time. That is the right way to think about a face, and it is rarer than it sounds. Eyes that have been lifted above an untouched brow look odd. A new nose on a tired jawline draws attention to the jawline. Faces are read as a whole, and they have to be treated as a whole. More than 4,000 facial aesthetic procedures and more than 5,500 nose operations — over 9,500 in total, with a 97 per cent satisfaction rate across more than two thousand patient surveys. Her work covers the full range: facelift and neck lift, brow lift, eyelid surgery, fox-eye canthoplasty, rhinoplasty, ear surgery, cheek and dimple contouring, hair transplantation, and non-surgical facial treatments — alone or in combination, in a single operation where that is the right thing to do. One more thing worth knowing. She is an ENT surgeon, and for the face that matters more than it sounds. The nose is not only something you look at — it is something you breathe through. A surgeon trained in the airway first does not have to choose between how a face looks and how it works. What you risk elsewhere. A surgeon you never met until the morning of the operation, chosen for you by a booking agency, whose name you cannot find afterwards. Ask any clinic one question: who exactly is operating, and where can I read about them? If the answer is a logo rather than a name, that is your answer. WHAT TENDS TO GO WITH WHAT Patients are usually surprised by how much difference the smaller half makes. A smile makeover with facial rejuvenation. New teeth above tired skin can make the skin look more tired, not less. Lift the face and the smile together and they read as one result — people cannot tell you what you had done, only that you look well. Teeth with eyelid and brow surgery. The eyes and the smile are the two things people actually look at in conversation. They are also the two that age first. A smile makeover with rhinoplasty. The nose and the smile sit in the same frame, and the proportion between them is most of what we call a balanced face. Teeth with non-surgical treatments. Sometimes the face needs very little — a small amount of work around the lips, cheeks and jawline is enough to let the new smile sit properly. Which of these applies to you is a clinical decision, not a package. You will be told what you need, including when the answer is "less than you thought". WHAT WE WILL NOT DO We will not operate on your face and your teeth in the same trip simply because it is convenient to sell. Most combinations are straightforward. A few need to be staged — different healing, different swelling, different timing — and in some cases doing everything at once would compromise one half of it. Where that is true, we will tell you plainly, give you the order and the timing, and let you decide. A clinic that says yes to every combination is not being generous. It is not assessing you. And we will not sell you facial surgery you did not come for. If your face needs nothing, you will be told it needs nothing. ONE GROUP, ONE HOSPITAL, ONE TEAM Your dental treatment and your facial surgery happen in the same place: Private Florya Hospital, a full general hospital in Istanbul with an operating theatre, an intensive care unit and specialists from every major field in the building. One set of medical records. One pre-operative assessment. One English-speaking coordinator beside you throughout. One plan, written down, with both halves in it and one price. What you risk when they are not connected. A dental clinic in one district, a surgeon in another, two sets of tests, two sets of paperwork, two invoices, nobody responsible for how the two results fit together — and two different people to chase if something needs attention. Being treated by two businesses that have never met is the most expensive way to save money. HOW IT WORKS Send us photographs of your smile and of your face, straight on and from the side, along with any X-rays you have. Tell us what bothers you — in your own words, not in medical terms. Your dental plan is prepared by Casas Clinics and your facial assessment by Dr. Soysüren. You receive one written plan covering both, with the order of treatment, exactly how many days you will need in Istanbul, and the combined price — before you book a flight or pay a deposit. If it turns out you only need one half of it, we will tell you that too. TALK TO US BEFORE YOU DECIDE ANYTHING See Our Prices Get Your Free Treatment Plan

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Casas Clinics is the dental company of an Istanbul healthcare group, treating international patients inside Private Florya Hospital in Istanbul. About Casas Clinics Casas Clinics is an important part of a healthcare group founded by doctors — a group that owns and operates hospitals and clinics. Our founders are experienced professionals who have achieved more than 25 years of success in the healthcare industry, and who established and managed the international patient units of ten hospitals before this group existed. Within that group, Casas Clinics is the company that delivers our international dental treatments and services. That is the whole of our business. Not one department among many — international dental care is the only thing we do, and the only thing we have to be good at. OVER 11,000 PATIENTS, AND A 96% SATISFACTION RATE More than 11,000 patients have been treated by us. In our 2026 patient surveys, 96 per cent said they were satisfied with their treatment. We publish the figure rather than the adjective. "World class" costs nothing to write. Ninety-six per cent is a number we have to stand behind. INTERNATIONALLY ACCREDITED AND CERTIFIED Standards are easy to claim and hard to earn. Ours are independently recognised. Casas Clinics holds ISO certification, and we are part of the European Society of Cosmetic Dentistry — the European professional body for aesthetic dentistry. [TEYİT: ISO standart numarası ve ESCD üyelik/akreditasyon statüsü netleşince bu cümle kesinleşecek.] Accreditation is not decoration. It means an outside organisation has looked at how we work — our processes, our records, our sterilisation, our clinical standards — and signed off on them. We did not mark our own homework. TREATMENT YOU CAN TRUST, IN WRITING Every clinic says "guaranteed". Very few will sign their name to a document and put it in your hand before you fly home. You leave Istanbul holding a signed, dated guarantee contract in your own name, carrying your passport number, the date your treatment began and exactly what is covered. Under Turkish law, a written agreement signed by the clinic and the patient is legally binding and protects you. A verbal promise is not, and neither is a decorative certificate. If a complication arises from treatment we performed, the revision is carried out at Casas Clinics in Istanbul free of charge, for five years. That is what turns a word into an obligation. Whichever clinic you choose, ask them for the document. A CLINIC INSIDE A FULL GENERAL HOSPITAL Your treatment takes place inside Private Florya Hospital. Our dental clinic is a registered medical unit within it — not a dental practice somewhere nearby. In the same building as your dental chair: an operating theatre, an intensive care unit, a 24-hour emergency department, and specialists in cardiology, internal medicine, neurology and respiratory medicine. For most of our patients this never comes up again. It is simply the reason they can relax in the chair. For three groups it is the reason they choose us. Patients who are living with a chronic condition — a heart condition, diabetes, high blood pressure, a respiratory illness — and who have been putting their teeth off for years. Patients who are frightened of the dentist and want to be asleep for it. And patients in perfect health who are having several hours of surgical work and would simply rather have an anaesthetist in the room. Whatever happens, you are already in the right building. WORLD-STANDARD MATERIALS AND A CERTIFIED LABORATORY What goes into your mouth is named in your file. We use internationally recognised implant systems and materials, and your written record states the make, model and reference of exactly what was placed — the single thing a dentist at home needs most, and the thing patients returning from abroad are most often not given. Our prosthetic work is produced by a certified dental laboratory. The ceramic on your teeth is only as good as the laboratory that made it, and that is not a place to save money. AFTERCARE IN SIX LOCATIONS AROUND THE WORLD The strongest argument against treatment abroad is that once you fly home, you are on your own. We work with partner dental clinics in six locations worldwide, and we are adding more. If a problem arises after you get home, you contact us first. If we have a partner in your region, we send you there for an examination and X-rays, and they report their findings to us. If we do not have one near you, you send us photographs and tell us what has happened, and our dentists in Istanbul review it alongside your records. The partner clinics diagnose. The treatment is carried out by us, by the team that holds your file — and where it falls under your guarantee, free of charge. TALK TO US BEFORE YOU DECIDE ANYTHING Get Your Free Treatment Plan See Our Prices

Our clinic is inside a general hospital in Istanbul with theatre, ICU and specialists on site, built for heart, diabetes and anxious dental patients. WHY INSIDE A GENERAL INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL Most dental clinics can make you comfortable, call an ambulance and wait. We do not have to call anyone. Our dental clinic is inside Private Florya Hospital — a full general international hospital in Istanbul, with an operating theatre, an intensive care unit, an emergency department and specialists from every major field in the same building as your chair. Here is what that gives you, and what you give up without it. AN INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL, NOT JUST A HOSPITAL The word "hospital" can sound cold. This one should not. What you gain here. Private Florya Hospital treats international patients every single day. Looking after someone who has flown in from abroad is not an exception here — it is routine, and the hospital is built around it. That means you are met by people who speak your language, not by a form you cannot read. It means an English-speaking patient coordinator beside your chair, not just at the airport. It means your treatment plan, your consent documents and your records are in English and go home with you. It means the staff already know the things that only matter to a foreign patient: that your flight is on Thursday, that you need a letter for your insurer, that you cannot simply pop back next week, that you want to call home before you decide. They have done this thousands of times. You will not be the first person who arrived nervous, alone and far from home. What you risk elsewhere. A clinic that treats one foreign patient a week improvises everything. You explain your medical history twice through a translation app. You sign something in a language you do not read. You are handed a discharge sheet in Turkish that your dentist at home cannot use. And the moment your questions fall outside the script — a change of flight, a reaction to a medicine, a worry at midnight — you discover that nobody is on the other end. Being far from home is the hard part of treatment abroad. A hospital that does this every day is what makes it feel like it is not. IF YOU HAVE A HEART CONDITION, DIABETES OR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE What you gain here. Before anything begins, the right hospital specialist looks at your case. Your tests are done in the building, usually the same morning. If your blood pressure is high on the day of surgery, a doctor sees you in the next corridor, sorts it out, and we carry on. Your treatment is planned around your health instead of in spite of it — and you finally get the teeth you have been putting off for years. What you risk elsewhere. A clinic with no doctor in the building has only two options when your numbers look wrong: send you away, or go ahead and hope. The first costs you your trip. The second costs you more than that. And you may not find out which one you got until you are already in the chair. IF ANOTHER CLINIC HAS ALREADY SAID NO What you gain here. A second opinion from a team that has the building to back it up. Send us your medicines and your diagnoses and we will tell you honestly whether we can treat you — and most of the time, the answer is yes. You stop being the patient nobody wants and become the patient who finally got it done. What you risk elsewhere. Another refusal, or worse, an acceptance from somewhere that should have refused. A clinic that says yes to everyone is not braver than the others. It is just not checking. IF YOU ARE PERFECTLY HEALTHY AND SIMPLY DO NOT WANT TO GAMBLE What you gain here. The same protection, at no extra cost to you, on the day you least expect to need it. You sit down for four hours of surgery knowing that nothing about the building will be the weak link. What you risk elsewhere. This is the part most people get wrong. In a study of more than 1.7 million dental visits, seventy per cent of the medical emergencies recorded happened in patients who were classed as healthy. Fainting, a bad reaction to an injection, a sudden drop in blood pressure — none of these read your medical history first. Being well is not the same as being safe. It only means the problem, if it comes, will be a surprise. IF YOU ARE FRIGHTENED OF THE DENTIST What you gain here. Years of avoidance ended in one trip. You can be gently sedated and remember almost nothing, or you can be fully asleep and wake up with the work finished. More than one British adult in ten is severely anxious about dentistry — you are not unusual, and you will not be made to feel it. What you risk elsewhere. Another year of putting it off. Fear is expensive in a very specific way: the treatment you need gets bigger every year you wait. A tooth that needed a filling needs a crown. A tooth that needed a crown comes out. What costs you a few days now costs you teeth later. IF YOU WANT TO BE TREATED UNDER SEDATION OR GENERAL ANAESTHETIC What you gain here. A specialist anaesthetist, a real operating theatre, a recovery area and an intensive care unit upstairs — the same conditions you would expect for any other operation. And because a longer sitting is safe here, a great deal of work can be finished in one go. Fewer appointments, often fewer trips. What you risk elsewhere. A great deal. In Turkey, ordinary dental clinics and dental polyclinics — which is what the vast majority of dental clinics treating international patients are — are not legally allowed to put you to sleep. They have no operating theatre and no intensive care. Britain decided the same thing in 2000: dental general anaesthesia may only be given somewhere with critical care on the same site. So if a clinic offers to put you to sleep, ask three questions. Asleep where. Given by whom. And what is in the building if you do not wake up on time. A room where you rest afterwards is not an intensive care unit. They are not the same thing, and the difference only matters once. WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET, IN PLAIN TERMS People who do this for international patients every day, in your language, with your paperwork in English. Your tests, your scans and your specialist opinions in one building, usually on the same day — not spread over three appointments in three places. A team that performs more than a thousand operations a month, so your anaesthetic is routine to them even if it is not routine to you. One set of records, one institution, one team. Nobody reading your history for the first time. Hygiene and sterilisation held to hospital standard and inspected by the Ministry of Health several times a year, not to whatever a private clinic decides is enough. And if something worries you at two in the morning while you are still in Istanbul, you walk back into the same building where your file already is. THE HONEST PART We are not going to tell you that a filling is safer in a hospital. It is not. If you are well, your health is under control and the work is small, a good dentist anywhere will do it properly, and you should not be frightened into paying for something you do not need. What a hospital changes is the big treatment, the long day in the chair, the anaesthetic, and the ten minutes after something unexpected happens. In an ordinary clinic, those ten minutes are spent keeping you stable and waiting for help to arrive. We do not wait for help to arrive. We are the place it arrives at. TALK TO US BEFORE YOU DECIDE ANYTHING

Porcelain veneers and composite bonding in Istanbul, planned with a full shade preview and carried out inside Private Florya Hospital. VENEERS AND COMPOSITE BONDING IN TURKEY Most of what is sold as "veneers" in dental tourism is not a veneer. It is a crown. Here is how to tell the difference before you agree to anything. WHAT IS A VENEER, EXACTLY? A veneer is a thin shell bonded to the front surface of your tooth. A crown covers the whole tooth, all the way round. They are not the same treatment and they do not have the same consequences. The difference is how much of your own tooth is removed. Published measurements put tooth reduction for a veneer or resin-bonded preparation at 3–30% of the tooth structure, and for a full crown on a front tooth at 63–72% (Edelhoff & Sorensen, 2002). A crown removes roughly 2.4 to 4.3 times more of your tooth than a veneer. WHY SO MANY "VENEERS" TURN OUT TO BE CROWNS In 2025 the British Dental Journal published an account from a UK dentist describing patients returning from abroad with what they had been sold as veneers — and finding crowns in the mouth instead. The same paper makes a second point we think is fair: the "Turkey teeth" label concentrates the criticism on one country, when the actual problem is how the treatment is planned and sold, not where it happens. We agree with both halves of that. So we do the obvious thing: we tell you, in writing, which of the two you are getting, before any tooth is touched. If the plan says veneer, your records will say veneer. If your case needs crowns, we will say crowns and explain why. HOW MUCH TOOTH IS LEFT? THE FOUR CLASSES Dentists classify veneer preparations by how much enamel survives. The classification below (LeSage) is the question you should be asking your clinic. ClassEnamel remainingDentine exposedReversible? Class I — no-prep95–100%0%Highly reversible Class II — minimal prepMost enamel intactMinimalLargely reversible Class III — moderate prepReducedPartialLimited Class IV — conventionalUnder 50%Over 50%Not reversible Ask one question at your consultation: "Which class is my preparation?" A clinic that cannot answer that question has not planned your case. It has priced it. WHY ENAMEL DECIDES HOW LONG YOUR VENEERS LAST Veneers bond to enamel. They do not bond to dentine nearly as well. This is not an opinion — it shows up in the survival figures. Pooled survival data by bonding surface: Bonded to enamel only: 99% Bonded with minimal dentine exposure: 94% Bonded with severe dentine exposure: 91% A 15-year study of 672 veneers published in 2025 (Etienne) found the same pattern: 96.7% survival where the bond was enamel-only, 95.3% where under 30% of the surface was dentine, and 93.9% where more than 30% was dentine. The difference was statistically significant. Now the number that matters most. The enamel on a front tooth is only 0.3–0.4 mm thick near the gum line. So when a clinic tells you the preparation is "only about a millimetre", ask what is left at the gum after a millimetre is taken from a layer that was never thicker than 0.4 mm. In that zone there is nothing left to bond to. This is why we measure before we prepare, and why some cases come back from us with a plan for fewer veneers than the patient expected. HOW LONG DO VENEERS ACTUALLY LAST? Pooled data from 25 studies covering roughly 6,500 veneers puts survival at about 95.5% at ten years. Two things sit inside that figure that nobody tells you: Most failures happen in the first two years. They are not wear failures. They are planning, bonding and fit failures — which is exactly why who prepares the tooth matters more than which brand of ceramic is used. The material makes less difference than you would think. Across studies, survival differences between veneer materials are not statistically significant. The preparation is the variable. The material is the marketing. For that reason we will not tell you our ceramic is better than anyone else's. We will tell you how we prepare the tooth, and we will put our work under a 5-year written guarantee you take home with you. COMPOSITE BONDING — AND THE CLAIM WE WILL NOT MAKE Composite bonding builds up the tooth with a tooth-coloured composite, shaped by hand, usually in a single visit. No laboratory, no ceramic, and in many cases no drilling at all. It is the right treatment for chips, small gaps, worn edges and minor shape corrections. Now the part the industry leaves out. Bonding is widely advertised as "completely reversible". It is not. The General Dental Council's own guidance states that composite bonding cannot be considered reversible — removing it without damaging the underlying enamel is extremely difficult. We are telling you this on our own treatment page, where it costs us something to say it. Draw the appropriate conclusion about everything else on this page. What is true: bonding removes far less tooth than a veneer, and far less again than a crown. It is repairable, it is the cheapest of the three, and it is the honest starting point for a lot of cases that get sold ceramic. What is also true: it stains over time, it chips more readily than ceramic, and it needs maintenance. VENEERS, BONDING OR CROWNS — WHICH ONE IS YOURS? Composite bondingVeneersCrowns Tooth removedMinimal to none3–30%63–72% (front teeth) MadeIn the chair, one visitIn a laboratoryIn a laboratory Best forChips, small gaps, worn edgesShape and colour change with healthy tooth structureHeavily broken, root-treated or structurally weak teeth LifespanShorter, repairable~95.5% at 10 yearsLong, but the tooth underneath is committed ReversibleNo (but least destructive)Depends on classNo The logic we apply, in order: bonding if bonding will do it. Veneers if bonding will not. Crowns only where the tooth genuinely needs covering. We do not start at the top of that list because it pays better. If bonding solves your case, we will tell you that — even though it is the cheapest item on our price list. HOW MANY VENEERS DO YOU NEED? There is no clinical guideline anywhere in the dental literature that says a smile needs eight veneers, or ten, or twenty. Those numbers are packages. They are commercial, not clinical. The honest answer depends on your smile line — how many teeth actually show when you smile and speak. The most common pattern is visibility back to the first premolars, which occurs in about 35.7% of people. Yours may be narrower or wider. So the number comes from your face, not from a price list. We will photograph your smile, show you exactly which teeth are visible, and treat those. If four teeth show, we are not going to sell you ten. WHITENING AND VENEERS: WHY WE WILL NOT DO BOTH IN ONE TRIP If you want your natural teeth lighter before we match the ceramic, whitening has to come first — and then it has to wait. Bleaching temporarily weakens the bond. Measured bond strength falls from 8.91 MPa to 2.72 MPa 24 hours after whitening, and recovers only partly, to 4.54 MPa, after fourteen days. Bonding veneers onto freshly whitened teeth means bonding onto a compromised surface. So we schedule whitening with a gap before the bonding appointment, rather than compressing both into one week to make the trip look shorter. This is one of the places where a clinic's schedule tells you what it is optimising for. YOUR TREATMENT TIMELINE Before you travel — photographs and any existing X-rays reviewed remotely. We tell you which treatment your case needs, and which class of preparation, before you book a flight. Day 1 — examination, X-rays, photographs, shade selection, and the written plan. If our plan differs from what you were expecting, this is where you hear it — not after preparation. Days 2–3 — preparation where preparation is needed, and impressions to the laboratory. Days 4–6 — try-in, adjustment, and bonding. You approve the shape and shade before anything is cemented permanently. Composite bonding cases are usually shorter, and some are completed in a single appointment. WHY HAVE VENEERS DONE INSIDE A HOSPITAL? Veneer treatment is not major surgery. But you are having it a long way from home, and the reason a hospital matters is not the treatment — it is everything around it. Our dental unit is a registered medical unit of Özel Florya Hospital: a full general hospital with a 24-hour emergency department, intensive care, and consultants across the general specialties in the building. That matters most if you are managing a heart condition, high blood pressure, a respiratory condition, diabetes, or are under oncology follow-up — the patients most clinics quietly prefer not to take. It also matters if dental treatment frightens you, because sedation in a hospital setting is a different proposition from sedation in a high-street clinic. If something goes wrong, the question is not how good the marketing was. It is what building you are standing in. Choose your clinic for what it can do if something goes wrong — not for what it charges. WHAT IS COVERED BY OUR GUARANTEE The work we place and the laboratory work we deliver are covered by a 5-year written guarantee, issued as a signed document in your name, with your passport number, on the day your treatment begins. You leave Istanbul holding it. A guarantee is only as strong as the document behind it. [ Read Our Guarantee Policy → ] QUESTIONS PATIENTS ASK Will my veneers look false? That depends on shape, translucency and shade selection, and on how much your own tooth remains underneath. You approve the try-in before anything is permanently bonded. Can I have veneers on crooked teeth instead of braces? Sometimes, within limits. Correcting significant crowding with ceramic means removing more tooth than the ceramic is worth. Where that is the case, we will say so and discuss alignment first. Do veneers damage your teeth? A veneer removes 3–30% of the tooth. That is not nothing, and it is permanent. It is also substantially less than a crown, which removes 63–72% on a front tooth. The damage question is really a question about which treatment you were sold. Can veneers be replaced later? Yes. Replacement is normal at end of life. What cannot be replaced is the enamel removed to place the first set — which is why the first preparation decides your options for the next thirty years. Is composite bonding really reversible? No. It is far less destructive than a veneer or a crown, but the GDC's position is that it cannot be described as reversible. Anyone telling you otherwise is repeating marketing copy. Do you do zirconia veneers? Yes. We will also tell you honestly that long-term data on zirconia veneers is thin — the published follow-up averages under three years. For most veneer cases we are not going to recommend a material chosen for how it sounds. How much do veneers cost in Turkey? Our prices are published, per tooth, on our price page. We do not quote by package. 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How Casas Clinics collects, uses and protects your personal and medical data when you contact us or receive dental treatment in Istanbul. Casas Clinics Privacy Policy At Casas Clinics, we are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you interact with us through our website, advertisements, and communication channels. Casas Clinics is fully committed to complying with all applicable laws, regulations, and legal requirements in Turkey regarding the protection and processing of personal data. 1. Who We Are Casas Clinics is a health tourism company based in Turkey. 2. Information We Collect We may collect and process the following personal data: Full name Phone number (including WhatsApp) Email address Country of residence Photos of teeth and medical information shared voluntarily Communication records (WhatsApp, Messenger, forms, calls) Website usage data (cookies, IP address, browser data) 3. How We Collect Your Data Your data may be collected through: Website forms Meta (Facebook/Instagram) lead forms WhatsApp, Messenger, and other messaging platforms Email or phone communication Cookies and tracking technologies on our website 4. How We Use Your Information We use your data to: Provide free consultation and treatment planning Communicate with you regarding your inquiry Share treatment options, pricing, and medical guidance Organize your treatment process in Turkey Improve our services and customer experience Conduct marketing and remarketing campaigns 5. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR) We process your personal data based on: Your explicit consent Performance of a contract or pre-contractual steps Legitimate business interests Compliance with legal obligations 6. Sharing Your Data Your data may be shared with: Partner hospitals and clinics in Turkey Doctors and medical professionals involved in your treatment Service providers (CRM systems, communication tools, advertising platforms) Legal authorities when required We ensure all partners comply with data protection standards. 7. International Data Transfers As an international health tourism provider, your data may be transferred and processed in Turkey and other countries where our partners operate, in compliance with applicable data protection laws. 8. Data Retention We retain your personal data only as long as necessary for: Providing services Legal and regulatory requirements Business and reporting purposes 9. Your Rights Under applicable data protection laws, you have the right to: Access your personal data Request correction of inaccurate data Request deletion of your data Restrict or object to processing Withdraw your consent at any time Request data portability To exercise your rights, contact us at: [your email address] 10. Data Security We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, loss, or misuse. 11. Cookies Policy Our website uses cookies to enhance user experience, analyze traffic, and improve marketing performance. You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. 12. Third-Party Links Our website may contain links to third-party websites. Casas Clinics is not responsible for the privacy practices of these external sites. 13. Updates to This Policy We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be published on this page. 14. Contact Us If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact us: Casas Clinics 📍 Istanbul, Turkey 📧 contact@casasclinics.com 📞 +90 549 147 20 56

Heart condition, diabetes or high blood pressure? Your dental treatment in Istanbul is planned with hospital specialists in the same building. Dental Treatment When You Have A Medical Condition Most medical conditions do not rule out dental treatment. Not implants, not crowns, not a full set of teeth. What changes is where the treatment should happen and who should be in the room while it does. That is the whole of it, and it is worth saying before anything else, because a great many people have quietly decided the opposite about themselves. They have a heart condition, or diabetes, or they are on blood thinners, and over a few years the dental work they need has gone from "I'll sort that out" to "I don't think I can risk that." Nobody told them no. They stopped asking. Our dental clinic is not a dental practice with a hospital somewhere nearby. It is a unit inside Özel Florya Hastanesi, a full general hospital in Istanbul — cardiology, internal medicine, neurology, respiratory medicine and anaesthesiology in the same building as the dental chair, more than twenty tertiary-level intensive care beds, and the legal authority to give a general anaesthetic, which almost no dental clinic in Turkey has. This page explains what that actually buys you, what it does not, and how to work out whether you need it. AT A GLANCE Most chronic conditions — cardiac disease, high blood pressure, asthma, COPD, diabetes, and many others — are not a barrier to dental treatment, including implants. What they change is the setting and the planning. Serious events during dental treatment are uncommon. A study of 1,722,252 dental visits recorded medical emergencies at a rate of 17.4 per 100,000 visits, or 0.017 per cent (Al-Sebaei, BMC Emergency Medicine, 2024). When one does happen, most are managed on the spot: in that study 87 per cent of patients recovered in the dental clinic and 13 per cent required transfer to an emergency room. There were no deaths. The commonest events were fainting (62.3 per cent), low blood sugar (12 per cent), reactions to adrenaline in the local anaesthetic (3.3 per cent) and panic attacks (2.7 per cent). One finding is worth knowing because it cuts against the obvious assumption: 70 per cent of those emergencies happened in patients classified as healthy (ASA 1). Being well is not the same as being safe, which is part of why some of our patients have no medical condition at all. In full-mouth treatment of patients with chronic conditions, roughly one patient in ten needs some form of urgent intervention during treatment in our own experience — a blood pressure spike that has to be brought down, glucose that has to be given, a rhythm change that has to be assessed, a physician who has to be called into the room. This is our own operational observation, not a published figure, and we explain below exactly what we count. A UK dental practice works to a real and well-designed emergency standard: Resuscitation Council UK requires an automated external defibrillator with immediate access in all clinical areas, defibrillation attempted within three minutes of collapse, oxygen, airway adjuncts, emergency drugs, and resuscitation training updated at least annually (Quality Standards: Primary Dental Care, 2013, updated May 2020). What that standard also says, in its own words, is that ambulance crews provide treatments "supplementary to those available in the dental surgery." The practice stabilises you and calls 999. That is the design, and it is the right design for a dental practice. A hospital-based dental clinic does not call an ambulance. The anaesthetist is already in the room, the monitoring is already running, the resuscitation team is in the building, and the intensive care unit is upstairs. Severe dental fear is common and not a character flaw: 11.6 per cent of UK adults score in the high-anxiety range on the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (Humphris and colleagues, BMC Oral Health, 2013, from the Adult Dental Health Survey of 11,382 adults). Avoidance has a price. Adults with dental phobia had pus, ulceration, fistula or abscess at 12.2 per cent against 5.6 per cent in non-phobic adults — roughly double the rate of frank dental infection (Heidari, Banerjee and Newton, British Dental Journal, 2015). We offer local anaesthetic, oral sedation, intravenous conscious sedation, and general anaesthesia in a hospital operating theatre administered by an anaesthesiology and reanimation specialist. We will also tell you when you do not need us. A well-controlled condition and routine treatment belong in a good local practice, and you should not be frightened out of one. And we will tell you when you should not travel at all. Our exclusion criteria are published further down this page. HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING THIS OFF BECAUSE OF YOUR HEALTH? "My dentist never said no — I just stopped asking" This is the most common version of the story and it almost never involves a refusal. What happens is smaller than that. A dentist mentions that your blood pressure is a bit high today and suggests coming back. A receptionist asks you to bring a letter from your cardiologist and you never get round to it. You read something about blood thinners and bleeding. You get the sense, without anyone ever saying it, that you are a complicated patient and that complicated patients are a nuisance. So the extraction waits. Then the implant waits. Then you start avoiding the appointment that would have told you where you stand. Five years later the work needed is much bigger than it was, which makes the whole thing feel riskier still, which makes you put it off again. If any of that sounds like your last few years, the useful thing to know is that the problem was usually never your heart or your diabetes. It was that nobody sat down and planned around them. Who this page is for You have a chronic condition — a heart problem, high blood pressure, asthma or COPD, diabetes, kidney disease, something else — and you have been treating your own health as a reason not to have the dental work done. You are frightened of the dentist, perhaps for a very long time, and the amount of treatment you now need has made that worse rather than better. You are in good health, but you are having a lot of surgical work in one go, and you would simply rather it happened somewhere with an anaesthetist in the room and an intensive care unit in the building. That is not anxiety. It is a reasonable preference about where you spend four hours under instruments. Another clinic has already turned you down on medical grounds. This is the smallest of the four groups and the easiest to help, and it is dealt with near the end of this page rather than the beginning, because most people reading this were never refused anything. WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG DURING DENTAL TREATMENT? Nobody writes this down for patients, which is strange, because it is the question underneath all the others. So here it is, as straight as we can put it. The events clinicians actually plan for Fainting (vasovagal syncope) is by far the commonest, at 62.3 per cent of recorded dental emergencies in that 1.7 million-visit study. It is usually brief and usually frightening and almost always managed by laying the patient flat. Low blood sugar came second at 12 per cent. It is mostly a problem of long appointments and missed meals in people on insulin or sulfonylureas, which is to say it is a planning problem. A sharp rise in blood pressure, from anxiety, pain, or the adrenaline in local anaesthetic. In a patient with no cardiac history this is uncomfortable. In a patient with one, it is the event that matters most. Angina or a change in heart rhythm. In the 1999 British survey of 1,500 general dental practitioners, angina accounted for around one in ten emergencies seen in practice (Atherton, McCaul and Williams, British Dental Journal, 1999). An asthma attack or bronchospasm — the third commonest category in that same British survey, at 11 to 14 per cent. A seizure, which was the single largest category in the British data at 31 to 36 per cent, often in people with known epilepsy. Prolonged bleeding, which is the one patients on anticoagulants worry about most and which is, for most dental procedures, manageable locally. A reaction to local anaesthetic, including the rare but serious systemic toxicity, and anaphylaxis, which is rare and fast. Two honest points about those numbers. First, they are small: on a per-visit basis these events are rare. Second, and this is the one that matters for anyone planning a full mouth of work, the published rates are per visit, across whole populations having mostly short, simple treatment. A four-hour surgical appointment in a patient with cardiac disease and diabetes is not the same exposure as a twenty-minute filling in a healthy thirty-year-old, and the literature does not tell you what that difference is, because nobody has measured it properly. What we can tell you is what we see. In our own full-mouth cases in patients with chronic conditions, something needs doing in roughly one patient in ten — blood pressure brought down before we continue, glucose given, a rhythm change looked at, a cardiologist or internist called into the room, occasionally a decision to stop for the day and resume tomorrow. Almost none of these are emergencies in the dramatic sense. Nearly all of them are events that are entirely routine in a hospital and are a crisis in a building where no physician is available. That is our figure, from our own practice, and we are not going to dress it up as research. What a dental practice is equipped to do We want to be scrupulous here, because this is where most clinics selling hospital treatment start exaggerating, and the honest version is more persuasive anyway. A UK dental practice is held to a real standard. Resuscitation Council UK's Quality Standards: Primary Dental Care requires immediate access to an automated external defibrillator in all clinical areas, an attempt at defibrillation within three minutes of collapse, oxygen, basic airway adjuncts, a defined set of emergency drugs, and resuscitation knowledge and skills updated at least annually for all clinical staff. Dentists in the UK are trained in medical emergencies and resuscitation; it is a regulatory requirement, not an optional extra. Anyone who tells you your dentist cannot manage an emergency is misleading you. What the standard also does is define the ceiling, and it defines it in its own words: ambulance crews provide treatments "supplementary to those available in the dental surgery." The dental team's job is to recognise the event, keep you alive, and get you to hospital. That is a sensible and well-thought-out design for a building that does dentistry. It just has a limit, and the limit is the ambulance. What a hospital is equipped to do In a dental practice, a cardiac event is managed with a defibrillator, oxygen, airway support, emergency drugs and chest compressions, while someone calls 999 and the team waits for the ambulance. In a hospital-based dental clinic, the same event is managed by an anaesthesiology and reanimation specialist who is already in the room, with continuous ECG, blood pressure and oxygen saturation monitoring already running, a hospital resuscitation team arriving in minutes, a cardiologist in the building, and an intensive care bed in the same building. Beyond the emergency, there is the ordinary version of the same advantage, which is the one most of our patients actually use. If your blood pressure is too high on the morning of surgery, we do not send you home — an internal medicine physician sees you, it is managed, and we go ahead when it is safe. If your blood sugar is unstable, it is corrected in the building. If a cardiologist needs to look at an ECG before we give you an anaesthetic, that appointment happens the same morning, down the corridor. A recovery room is a room where you wake up. An intensive care unit is where you are kept alive. In Turkey, dental facilities that are not hospitals do not have intensive care at all — and they are not permitted to administer general anaesthesia. Turkey's regulation on private oral and dental health facilities is explicit about it: "Sedasyon veya genel anestezi altında yapılacak tanı ve tedavi işlemleri muayenehanelerde yapılamaz" — diagnostic and treatment procedures under sedation or general anaesthesia may not be carried out in dental surgeries — and the identical prohibition applies to oral and dental health polyclinics, which is what the overwhelming majority of Turkish health tourism dental clinics are. Our sedation and general anaesthesia page sets this out in full. How to decide which setting is right for you A framework, including the branch where the answer is that you do not need us. A good local dental practice is the right place for you if your condition is well controlled, your medication is stable, and the treatment is routine — fillings, a crown, a straightforward extraction, hygiene. Having diabetes or taking an anticoagulant does not by itself move you out of primary care, and you should not let anyone frighten you into thinking it does. Most dentistry for most people with chronic conditions belongs exactly where it has always been. A hospital setting is worth considering if any of these apply: the treatment is extensive surgery over several hours or several teeth at once; you have more than one significant condition, or one that is poorly controlled; your condition is one where the likely emergency is cardiac or respiratory rather than a faint; you are on anticoagulants and the planned procedure is in the higher bleeding-risk category — which in Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme terms includes complex extractions, more than three extractions at once, and procedures that involve raising a flap; or you simply cannot face being awake for it. And it is the right place if you want it to be. Choosing an anaesthetist and a monitored environment for a long surgical procedure is a normal informed decision. You do not have to be ill to make it. CAN I HAVE DENTAL TREATMENT WITH A HEART CONDITION? A heart condition is not a barrier to dental treatment, including implants. There are three specific things that need handling, and a great deal of misinformation about all three. The adrenaline in local anaesthetic. Dental local anaesthetic usually contains a small amount of adrenaline, which is what makes it last. In patients with cardiac disease the dose needs thinking about rather than avoiding, and the reason a hospital setting helps is not that the drug is dangerous but that the effect is monitored rather than guessed at. Antibiotics before treatment, for infective endocarditis. This is the single most misstated subject in dentistry and the guidance has moved. NICE's 2008 guideline said prophylaxis was "not recommended"; a 2016 amendment inserted one word, making it "not recommended routinely", and in November 2024 NICE redirected clinicians to the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme, conceding that patients at high risk may benefit. The European Society of Cardiology's 2023 guidelines upgraded their recommendation to Class I. As the SDCEP implementation advice now stands, antibiotic prophylaxis is recommended before extractions and oral surgery in patients at high risk, and should be considered for other procedures involving the gingiva or the periapical region. The high-risk group is specific: previous infective endocarditis; surgically placed prosthetic valves or prosthetic repair material; transcatheter aortic or pulmonary valve prostheses; untreated cyanotic congenital heart disease; and ventricular assist devices. Equally specific is who does not need it, because many patients have been told otherwise for years: prophylaxis is not recommended for rheumatic heart disease, degenerative valve disease, a bicuspid aortic valve, a pacemaker or implantable defibrillator, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. If you have a pacemaker and you have been taking amoxicillin before your check-ups, this is worth a conversation. Timing after a cardiac event. Elective dental treatment is normally deferred after a recent heart attack, stroke or TIA, or recently placed stents. The American Society of Anesthesiologists' own classification puts a myocardial infarction, stroke, TIA or coronary stent within the last three months in the ASA IV category — "severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life". We will ask you for dates, and if you are inside that window we will tell you to wait rather than fly. CAN I HAVE DENTAL IMPLANTS IF I HAVE DIABETES? Yes, and the research is unusually clear about why: it is not the diagnosis that matters, it is the control. In a systematic review of 54 studies, implant survival sorted almost entirely by HbA1c — the blood test that reflects average blood glucose over roughly three months. Survival ran at 95 to 100 per cent with an HbA1c at or below 7 per cent, 92 to 98 per cent between 7 and 8 per cent, and 85 to 94 per cent above 8 per cent (Shahi and colleagues, BMC Oral Health, 2026). The same review found type 2 diabetic patients at 92.2 per cent survival against 93.2 per cent in non-diabetic patients at 36 months, across 663 implants — a difference of one percentage point. Over the longer term, bone around the implant does behave differently: marginal bone loss at five to ten years was 2.28 millimetres in type 1 diabetes, 1.47 millimetres in type 2, and 0.91 millimetres in non-diabetic patients. Worth knowing, and worth managing, and not a reason to go without teeth. So the practical answer is that we will ask for a recent HbA1c, and if it is high we will tell you honestly what that does to your odds and whether it is worth three months of work with your own doctor before you book a flight. We would rather say that than take your money and place implants into a mouth that will not heal around them. The other diabetes issue is simpler and purely logistical: long appointments and missed meals cause hypoglycaemia, which is the second commonest emergency in dental practice. In a hospital we schedule around your insulin, monitor your glucose, and treat it in the room if it drops. CAN I HAVE A TOOTH OUT IF I TAKE BLOOD THINNERS? Usually yes, and usually without stopping the medication — and we want to be clear about this even though the honest answer is less dramatic than it would suit us to give. The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme's guidance is to treat without interrupting anticoagulant or antiplatelet therapy for most dental procedures, managing the bleeding locally instead, because stopping the medication carries its own risk of clot, stroke or infarction. On warfarin specifically, the guidance is that if the INR is below 4, treat without interrupting the medication; at 4 or above, delay invasive treatment or refer if it is urgent. And the guidance lists patients in whom therapy must not be interrupted at all: those with prosthetic metal heart valves or coronary stents, those who have had a pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis within the last three months, and those anticoagulated for cardioversion. So if a clinic tells you that your apixaban or your warfarin means you need a hospital for an extraction, they are either out of date or selling you something. Where the setting genuinely does matter is at the other end of the same guidance, in the higher bleeding-risk tier: complex extractions, adjacent extractions that will create a large wound, more than three extractions at one appointment, and procedures involving raising a flap. Full-arch work on a patient taking anticoagulants lands squarely in that category. That is a real reason to be somewhere with a laboratory that can check an INR in the building and a team that can manage bleeding that does not settle — not because the procedure is exotic, but because the margin is thinner. CAN I HAVE DENTAL TREATMENT WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? This is the commonest reason a dental practice sends someone home on the day, and the commonest reason people stop going. There is a threshold in the published guidance. A 2025 paper in the British Dental Journal describes 180/110 mmHg as a critical threshold for carrying out extractions under local anaesthetic containing adrenaline, with a diastolic pressure of 120 or above contraindicating treatment (Gazal and Nassani, British Dental Journal, 2025). What usually happens in a dental practice when you are over that line is entirely correct and entirely unhelpful to you: the appointment is cancelled and you are advised to see your GP. Weeks pass. You come back, you are anxious because of the last time, your pressure is up again, and the cycle repeats. What happens here is that an internal medicine physician in the same building sees you, your pressure is managed, and we proceed when it is safe to proceed — often the same day, sometimes the next. Treating the blood pressure is not a referral. It is a corridor. WHAT ABOUT OTHER CONDITIONS? Can I have dental treatment with asthma or COPD? Usually yes. Bronchospasm is one of the three commonest emergencies in dental practice — 11 to 14 per cent of events in the British survey — which is an argument for planning, not for avoiding. Bring your inhalers. If you have significant COPD and are having extensive treatment, sedation needs assessing properly rather than assuming, and that assessment is what an anaesthesiology specialist is for. Can I have dental implants after chemotherapy or radiotherapy? Often yes, with timing and with honesty about the risks. Radiotherapy to the jaws changes the healing of bone permanently and is the single most important thing we need to know about, including the dose and the fields. Send us your oncology records. This is one of the cases where the answer may genuinely be no, or not yet, and we will say so. Can I have dental implants if I take bisphosphonates or have osteoporosis? For osteoporosis, the risk is far smaller than the internet suggests. In the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons' 2022 position paper, the risk of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw after extraction in osteoporosis patients on oral bisphosphonates was 0 to 0.15 per cent, and around 1 per cent on denosumab. Prevalence figures in osteoporosis are of the same order: 0.02 to 0.05 per cent on oral bisphosphonates, 0.3 per cent on denosumab at ten years. Cancer patients on high-dose intravenous bisphosphonates are a different population entirely, with post-extraction risk reported from 1.6 to 14.8 per cent. If you are in that group, tell us the drug, the dose and the indication, and the answer will be a careful one. Can I have dental treatment with kidney disease or on dialysis? Usually yes, with the timing built around your dialysis schedule and with attention to bleeding, blood pressure and medication. Send us your nephrologist's details. Can I have dental treatment after a stroke, or with epilepsy or Parkinson's? Yes. Seizures were the largest single category of dental practice emergency in the British data at 31 to 36 per cent, which again argues for planning and monitoring rather than avoidance. After a stroke, as with a heart attack, recent events mean waiting. Can I have dental treatment on immunosuppressants or after a transplant? Usually yes, in coordination with the team that manages your immunosuppression. Healing and infection risk need managing, and your transplant team will often want to be consulted. We will ask. I have several conditions and a long list of medicines. Where do I start? With the list. Send us your medication list, your diagnoses and any recent letters from your specialists. The first useful thing we can give you is not a quote — it is a straight answer about whether we can treat you, where, and under what anaesthesia. WHAT IF YOU ARE SIMPLY TERRIFIED OF THE DENTIST? How common is this? Common enough that it should never be apologised for. In the Adult Dental Health Survey, 11,382 British adults were assessed on the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale and 11.6 per cent scored 19 or above, the high-anxiety range (Humphris and colleagues, BMC Oral Health, 2013). Dental phobia was reported by 16.8 per cent of women and 7 per cent of men in a separate British study (Heidari, Banerjee and Newton, British Dental Journal, 2015). What avoidance actually costs The same study measured what happens over time, and the figures are blunt. Among phobic adults, 58.5 per cent attended irregularly and 39.9 per cent had active decay. Most tellingly, signs of frank dental infection — pus, ulceration, fistula or abscess — were present in 12.2 per cent of phobic adults against 5.6 per cent of non-phobic adults. Quality of life scores were significantly worse on both measures used. The reason we put that here rather than in a brochure is that most people who have been avoiding the dentist for a decade already know it. What they do not know is that the avoidance is treatable in a single planned episode rather than the twenty appointments they are dreading. Your options, lightest to deepest Local anaesthetic alone, which is enough for most people most of the time, and is not a failure. Oral sedation, a tablet before the appointment to take the edge off. Intravenous conscious sedation, where you are awake and able to respond but relaxed, and most people remember very little afterwards. General anaesthesia, in a hospital operating theatre, administered by an anaesthesiology and reanimation specialist, for severe phobia or for very extensive treatment in one sitting. One honest thing about sedation Sedation manages the appointment. It does not treat the phobia, and the better evidence is actually on the other side. In a 2024 analysis of 173 randomised trials, cognitive behavioural therapy against usual care for dental anxiety showed a standardised mean difference of −0.65 with moderate certainty, while benzodiazepines against placebo for anxiety during treatment showed −0.43 with low certainty; for diagnosed dental phobia, psychotherapy showed −0.80 (Steenen and colleagues, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2024). What that means in practice: if your goal is to never be frightened of a dentist again, the evidence points to therapy. If your goal is to get a mouth full of necessary treatment completed without going through something you cannot face, sedation and anaesthesia are the right tools, and they work. Most of our patients want the second thing, and some want both. Why "sleep dentistry" means something different in a hospital The phrase is used loosely, and in dentistry it usually means sedation rather than anaesthesia. The distinction matters because of where each is legally allowed to happen. In the United Kingdom the position has been settled since 2000, when the Department of Health's report A Conscious Decision required that general anaesthesia for dental treatment take place only in a hospital setting — and defined that term precisely as an institution "which has critical care facilities on the same site." The Royal College of Anaesthetists adopted the same definition in its own standards. Turkey reached the same place by its own route, through its own regulation, as set out above: dental surgeries and polyclinics may not administer sedation or general anaesthesia at all, and only facilities with a general anaesthesia unit may do so. Two countries, two separate regulators, the same conclusion. So if a dental clinic offers you "sleep dentistry", the question to ask is a simple one: asleep where, given by whom, and with what in the building. What the NHS route looks like Dental treatment under general anaesthesia is available on the NHS, and you should know what that pathway currently involves. British Dental Association figures published in early 2025, focused on Scotland, reported that one in four patients wait more than a year for dental treatment under general anaesthesia, with some children waiting up to three years; UK anaesthetist numbers around 15 per cent below requirement; and Public Dental Service dentist headcount down 24 per cent over a decade. We are not going to pretend the NHS cannot do this. It can, and well. The issue is when. WHAT IF YOU ARE IN GOOD HEALTH AND SIMPLY WANT THE MARGIN? A reasonable number of our patients have nothing wrong with them at all. They are having a full arch of implants, or a complete set of crowns, which is several hours of surgical work. They have read the stories in the British press about dental treatment abroad. And they have decided, quite rationally, that they would rather be somewhere with an anaesthetist in the room and an intensive care unit in the building than somewhere with a dental chair and a telephone. There is one piece of evidence that supports them more than it supports the people with conditions. In that study of 1.7 million dental visits, 70 per cent of the recorded medical emergencies occurred in patients classified ASA 1 — healthy (Al-Sebaei, BMC Emergency Medicine, 2024). Only 30 per cent were in patients with any medical classification at all. Faints, panic attacks and reactions to local anaesthetic do not check your medical history first. We should also be straight about what we cannot claim. There is no published evidence that healthy patients have better dental outcomes in a hospital than in a good dental practice. Nobody has studied it, so nobody knows, and anyone who tells you otherwise is making it up. What a hospital gives you is not a better crown. It is a different answer to the question of what happens in the ten minutes after something goes wrong. Whether that is worth something to you is your decision, and it is a legitimate one to make either way. WHAT IF ANOTHER DENTIST HAS ALREADY TURNED YOU DOWN? This is the smallest group of people who read this page, and generally the easiest to help. A refusal is almost never a judgement about you. It is a mismatch between what your treatment needs and what that building can offer, and a dentist who declines on those grounds is behaving correctly rather than unkindly. The published guidance says as much: the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme states that many ASA grade III patients will need referral to secondary care and that ASA grade IV patients requiring dental sedation should be referred to an appropriate secondary care facility. NHS England's commissioning guidance for special care dentistry routes patients with unstable ASA 3 or ASA 4 conditions — a significant risk of medical emergency — to consultant-led Level 3 care. In other words, there is a correct destination for you, and in the UK it exists: NHS special care dentistry and hospital dental services. You can be referred, and you should ask to be. The honest caveat is the waiting, which is covered above. What we need from you is simple. Your medication list. Your diagnoses. Any recent letters from your cardiologist, physician or specialist. If a clinic has written to you declining treatment, that letter is useful too, because it usually says exactly what they were worried about. We will read it and tell you whether we can treat you. Sometimes the answer is no. HOW WE ASSESS YOU BEFORE YOU FLY What we ask for. Your full medication list with doses, your diagnoses, recent letters from your GP or specialists, recent blood results where relevant — HbA1c for diabetes, INR if you are on warfarin, kidney function if relevant — and an ECG where there is cardiac history. Dates matter: a heart attack, stroke or stent within the last three months changes the answer. Who reviews it. Related doctors all. What we tell you before you book a flight. Whether we can treat you; whether you need sedation or a general anaesthetic; whether any of your treatment has to be staged across more than one trip; whether anything needs to be better controlled first, and roughly how long that takes. When we will tell you not to travel. A heart attack, stroke or TIA within the last three months. Unstable angina. Uncontrolled heart failure. A condition your own specialist has told you is currently unstable. Blood pressure that cannot be brought under control before travel. An HbA1c high enough that implants would be likely to fail rather than possible to fail. Staging across trips. A great deal of medically complex treatment is better done in two or three shorter episodes than one long one, and we would rather tell you that at the planning stage than discover it on day three. A clinic that cannot tell you no has not assessed you. WHERE YOUR TREATMENT HAPPENS Casas Clinics treats patients in the dental clinic of Özel Florya Hastanesi, a licensed private general hospital in Istanbul. The dental clinic is a unit within the hospital, operating under the hospital's licence — not a dental polyclinic with an arrangement nearby. What that means in numbers, so you can judge it rather than take our word for it: the hospital performs more than a thousand operations a month, keeps close to a hundred inpatient beds occupied every day, holds more than twenty tertiary-level intensive care beds — the level at which the most complex cases are managed — sees more than four thousand outpatients a month across all its departments, handles more than fifteen hundred emergency attendances a month, and is inspected by the Turkish Ministry of Health several times every year. Cardiology, internal medicine, neurology, respiratory medicine, anaesthesiology and reanimation, laboratory and radiology are all in the same building. So is the emergency department. Your case is not an exception here. A team performing a thousand operations a month does not treat an anaesthetic as an event. Our international patient activity is carried out under Turkey's international health tourism regulations. You are treated by one institution, with one set of records and one clinical team — not by a dental clinic that has an arrangement with a building. TREATMENTS WE PROVIDE IN THIS SETTING Dental implants, including single implants, multiple implants and zygomatic implants → [Dental Implants] Full-arch rehabilitation on four or six implants → [All-on-4 and All-on-6] Crowns and full-mouth crown work → [Dental Crowns] Smile makeovers → [Hollywood Smile] Veneers and composite bonding → [Veneers and Bonding] Root canal treatment where a tooth due to be crowned is infected → [Root Canal Before a Crown] Teeth whitening → [Teeth Whitening] Conscious sedation and general anaesthesia → [Sedation and General Anaesthesia] QUESTIONS PATIENTS ASK Can I have dental implants if I have a heart condition? In most cases yes. The three things that need handling are the adrenaline in the local anaesthetic, whether you are in the high-risk group for infective endocarditis, and how recently you have had a cardiac event. None of those is a reason to go without teeth. Do I need antibiotics before dental treatment because of my heart? Only if you are in the specific high-risk group: previous infective endocarditis, a surgically placed prosthetic valve or prosthetic repair material, a transcatheter aortic or pulmonary valve prosthesis, untreated cyanotic congenital heart disease, or a ventricular assist device. Prophylaxis is not recommended for rheumatic or degenerative valve disease, a bicuspid aortic valve, a pacemaker or ICD, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. I have a pacemaker. Does that change anything? Not in the way most people assume. A pacemaker is not an indication for antibiotic prophylaxis under current guidance. How long after a heart attack can I have dental treatment? Elective treatment is normally deferred. An infarction, stroke, TIA or coronary stent within the last three months places you in the ASA IV category and we will tell you to wait rather than travel. Can the dentist treat me if my blood pressure is high? There is a threshold — 180/110 mmHg is described in the published guidance as critical for extractions under adrenaline-containing local anaesthetic, and a diastolic of 120 or above contraindicates treatment. The difference here is that we manage it in the building rather than sending you home. Can I have a tooth out while taking blood thinners? Usually yes, and usually without stopping them. Guidance is to treat without interrupting the medication for most dental procedures and manage the bleeding locally, because stopping carries its own risk. Do I need to stop warfarin? Guidance says if your INR is below 4, treat without interrupting it. At 4 or above, invasive treatment is delayed. Can I have dental implants while taking blood thinners? Yes. Where the setting matters is in the higher bleeding-risk category — complex extractions, more than three at once, or flap surgery — which is where full-arch work sits. Can I have dental implants if I have diabetes? Yes, and control matters more than diagnosis. Survival ran at 95 to 100 per cent with HbA1c at or below 7 per cent and 85 to 94 per cent above 8 per cent in a review of 54 studies. Send us a recent HbA1c. Do implants fail more often in diabetics? Marginally, when diabetes is well controlled: 92.2 per cent against 93.2 per cent at 36 months in one dataset. Substantially, when it is not. Can I have dental implants after chemotherapy or radiotherapy? Often, with timing and with the full oncology record. Radiotherapy to the jaws is the single most important thing we need to know about, including dose and fields. This is one area where the answer may be no. Can I have dental implants if I take bisphosphonates? For osteoporosis, the risk of jaw osteonecrosis after extraction is reported at 0 to 0.15 per cent on oral bisphosphonates and around 1 per cent on denosumab. For cancer patients on high-dose intravenous bisphosphonates it is far higher, from 1.6 to 14.8 per cent, and needs a careful individual answer. Can I have dental treatment with asthma or COPD? Yes. Bring your inhalers. If you have significant COPD and want sedation, that needs proper assessment by an anaesthesiology specialist rather than an assumption. Can I have sedation if I have sleep apnoea? It needs assessing rather than assuming, and it is one of the clearer reasons to have an anaesthesiology and reanimation specialist rather than a dentist making that decision. Can I be put to sleep for all my dental treatment? Yes, in a hospital operating theatre with an anaesthesiology and reanimation specialist. Very extensive treatment in a single sitting is a recognised indication. What is the difference between sedation and a general anaesthetic? Under conscious sedation you are awake and able to respond, but relaxed, and usually remember little. Under general anaesthesia you are unconscious. The second may only legally be given in a facility with a general anaesthesia unit, which in Turkey excludes dental surgeries and polyclinics. Is sedation safe if I have a medical condition? It depends on the condition and how well controlled it is. UK sedation guidance restricts advanced sedation techniques to ASA I and II patients in a primary care setting, and routes ASA III and IV patients to secondary care — which is precisely the distinction a hospital setting removes. Can I get this on the NHS, and how long is the wait? You can. British Dental Association figures published in early 2025 reported one in four patients waiting more than a year for dental treatment under general anaesthesia, with some children waiting up to three years. Is dental treatment safer in a hospital than in a dental practice? For routine treatment in a well-controlled patient, there is no evidence that it is, and we are not going to claim otherwise. What changes is what is available in the minutes after something goes wrong, and how extensive the treatment can safely be in one sitting. Is it safe to have dental treatment in Turkey if I have a medical condition? That depends entirely on which Turkish facility, and the differences between them are larger than most patients realise. Dental surgeries and polyclinics — which is what the great majority of Turkish health tourism dental clinics are — may not legally administer sedation or general anaesthesia and do not have intensive care. A dental clinic inside a general hospital is a different proposition. Ask any clinic you are considering which of the five categories it falls into. My dentist refused to treat me. What now? Send us your medication list, your diagnoses, recent specialist letters and, if you have one, the letter declining treatment — it usually names exactly what the concern was. We will tell you whether we can treat you. What medical records do you need? Medication list with doses, diagnoses, recent specialist letters, relevant recent bloods (HbA1c, INR, kidney function), and an ECG where there is cardiac history. Will you tell me if you think I should not travel? Yes, and we publish the list of circumstances in which we will say so, further up this page. I have not seen a dentist in over ten years. Where do I start? With photographs and a message. Not with a decision. The first thing we will tell you is what is actually there, which is almost always less frightening than what you have been imagining. What will all this cost? You can see all the prices at our price list page. 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