Dental Treatment FAQ

Starting prices are published, implants from €432, zirconium crowns from €216, whitening from €276, but your total depends on the units your mouth needs, which nobody can count without photos and an X-ray. Send them through the free assessment and you receive a written, itemised quote within days.

Because roots, bone levels and hidden decay decide half the plan and are invisible in photos. A quote made without X-rays is a guess dressed as a number, and guesses get corrected upward later. We would rather be accurate than fast.

Yes, it holds unless your in-person examination reveals something imaging could not show, which is uncommon. Any change is explained face to face and requires your agreement before treatment continues. Silent additions do not happen.

Lower operating costs: rents, wages and administration in Tirana cost a fraction of Western European equivalents. The implant systems and ceramics come from the same international manufacturers. It is economics, not a quality discount.

Your treatment plan is quoted per unit, and travel logistics. VIP transfers, hotel assistance, are coordinated around it transparently. We avoid opaque flat packages because they make honest comparison impossible.

Crowns, veneers, whitening and bonding: usually one stay of several days to a week. Implant plans: usually two visits of a few days each, 3–6 months apart, because bone healing cannot be compressed. Your written plan states your exact schedule before you book flights.

Osseointegration, bone bonding to the implant, takes 3 to 6 months, and loading an implant too early is how implants fail. The first visit places implants; the second fits the final teeth. Clinics promising everything at once for every case are marketing against biology.

Many patients do. Tirana is a walkable capital with mountains and beaches nearby. Just plan surgical recovery days realistically; your coordinator will tell you which days are yours and which belong to the dentist.

Minor issues can often be resolved with a local dentist and our guidance; anything significant is assessed via photos and the emergency line, and your follow-up visit, for staged plans, includes a full review. You are not alone the moment the plane leaves.

Yes. VIP airport transfers and hotel assistance are coordinated with your treatment schedule, and a multilingual coordinator handles the practical questions throughout.

Straumann Group systems: Nuvo (from €432), Neodent (from €552), Medentica (from €672) and Straumann (from €1,248). The system for your case is recommended clinically, named in your plan and documented in your records.

Monolithic zirconium from €216, E-max from €300 and laminate ceramics from €324, all Ivoclar-Vita. The material is chosen per tooth: strength where you chew, translucency where you smile.

Treatments happen under effective local anaesthesia; what patients report afterwards is soreness and sensitivity for a few days, not pain that stops life. Sedation options exist for longer surgical sessions and anxious patients.

Honestly: implants have a small failure rate, root canals occasionally reinfect, ceramics can chip, and every surgical procedure carries infection risk. Smoking, uncontrolled diabetes and poor hygiene are the three multipliers that matter most. Each treatment page on this site has a dedicated risk section, we would rather over-inform than over-promise.

Possibly, with honest counselling about your elevated failure and gum-complication risk, and a strong request to pause smoking around surgery and healing. We decline cases where risk factors make a good outcome unlikely; that policy protects you as much as us.

Usually not, preparation removes a thin layer of enamel permanently. Genuinely no-prep cases exist but are a minority. Any clinic that answers “completely reversible” before examining you is selling, not advising.

Realistic expectations: composite bonding 5–8 years, crowns and veneers 10–15, implants often decades, all extended by hygiene and check-ups, all shortened by grinding, smoking and neglect. Anyone promising forever is promising something dentistry cannot.

Written care instructions before you leave, WhatsApp access to your coordinator, photo check-ins where relevant, an emergency line, and a clinical review at your next visit for staged plans.

Natural teeth re-stain over time with coffee, wine and smoking; whitening top-ups handle that. Ceramic does not stain meaningfully but also does not whiten, which is why shade planning happens once, carefully, before ceramics are made.

It happens in a small percentage of cases, usually early. The site is left to heal and the implant is typically replaced. How replacement is handled is stated in your written plan, ask to see it in any quote you compare, including ours.