How it works
From your UK examination to Antalya
Seven steps. Two of them happen before you leave the country, and nothing is booked until you have a written plan and have agreed to it.
1UK examination
In person, before anything is booked
2Fly to Antalya
Around 4 hours, direct
3Private transfer
Met at arrivals, included
4Hotel
Four or five star, included
5Treatment
To the plan you signed
6Home, with aftercare
UK follow-up and a guarantee
The treatment room is Ballıpınar Dental’s own photograph. The other five frames are illustrations of what each stage involves — not photographs of your practice, your flight, the vehicle that will meet you or your room.
Send us photos and any X-rays you have
OnlineA few photos of your teeth and whatever your UK dentist has already given you. We come back with an idea of what's possible and a ballpark cost — free, and with no obligation to go further.
See us in person in the UK
In the UKWe examine you face to face at a clinic in the UK before anything is booked. It's the step that lets us plan properly rather than guess from a photograph, and it means you meet someone before you commit to flying.
Get a written plan with a fixed price
In the UKTooth by tooth: what's being done, which materials, how many trips, and what the total is. Nothing on it changes once you've agreed it, and anything not included is listed as not included.
Fly to Antalya
In AntalyaYou book the flights; we arrange the airport transfer and hotel. Your coordinator has your schedule and meets you on arrival.
Treatment at the clinic
In AntalyaCarried out by the dental team at Ballıpınar in Antalya, to the plan you signed off. Your coordinator stays with you across appointments.
Recover — and see something of Antalya
In AntalyaMost treatments leave gaps between appointments. How you spend them is up to you; we'll tell you honestly what your mouth will be up to in that first week.
Follow-up and guarantee
In AntalyaA check-in after you're home, a UK point of contact, and a written guarantee that spells out what's covered and for how long.
Why the UK step matters more than it sounds
Most of the stories that put people off dental treatment abroad trace back to the same thing: a plan agreed before anyone had examined the patient. Someone sends photographs, a price comes back, they fly out, and the treatment they receive turns out to be more extensive — or a different treatment entirely — from the one they thought they had agreed to.
Examining you here removes that. We can see what is actually there, take the scans that implant planning depends on, and tell you tooth by tooth what we would do. If that plan comes back bigger than you expected, you find out sitting in a chair in Britain rather than in Antalya with a flight home already booked.
It also means you have met someone. That matters more than any badge we could put on this page.
What we will tell you that other clinics might not
Sometimes the answer is that you should have the work done at home. A single filling is not worth a flight. Some cases are better managed by a dentist who can see you every few weeks. If that is your situation, we would rather say so than sell you a trip — a patient we turned away honestly is worth more to us than one we disappointed.
Once you land
What the trip actually looks like
Ballıpınar publishes a four- or five-star hotel and VIP airport transfers as part of the treatment package. This is the shape of the week those two lines pay for.
You are met at arrivals
Not a taxi rank and not a shared resort shuttle — the clinic's own vehicle, with your schedule already in it. It is included, which is why nothing on this site adds a transfer fare on top.
A room for the nights the treatment needs
The stay length comes from the treatment rather than from a round number, and it is costed rather than described as a gift. What it is not is a holiday with dentistry attached.
The days with nothing in them
Most treatments leave gaps between appointments. Antalya is a reasonable place to have them — and we will tell you plainly what your mouth will be up to in that first week.
- Included: Treatment as set out in your written plan
- Included: Airport transfers in Antalya
- Included: Hotel accommodation for the treatment stay
- Included: Interpreter / English-speaking coordinator
- Included: CBCT scan and X-rays taken at the clinic
- Included: Written guarantee
- Not included: Flights
Flights are the one you book yourself, and for implants and full-arch work you book them twice. That is the single largest thing that turns a good-looking saving into a mediocre one, which is why the all-in comparison counts every one of them.
Plan it
How many days would you actually be away?
Pick a treatment and see the trip day by day — which days you are at the clinic, which are yours, and how many nights that adds up to. Then, if you want them, some ideas for the free ones.
Before you fly
UK examination, X-rays and a written plan
We look in your mouth in person in the UK, take the imaging, and write the plan and the price down. This is the step that turns a photograph-based estimate into something you can hold someone to — and the step at which some people are told they should not travel at all.
- Arrive
- At the clinic
- Yours
- Fly home
Trip 15 nights
Consultation and CBCT in Antalya
A 3D scan at the clinic confirms bone height and width at each site and the position of the nerve and sinus. The plan is either confirmed or changed in front of you before anything is done.
Then, at home
The implant fuses to the boneAt home · 3–6 months
Osseointegration. No clinic can compress it and no package can shorten it — this is the reason implants are a two-trip treatment. You are chewing on your other teeth and living normally throughout.
Trip 29 nights
Between appointments
What there is to do in Antalya
27 places the planner chooses from, in six kinds of day. Real photographs, and travel times written as a range because nobody has driven them with a stopwatch.
Beaches & the sea7
Konyaaltı BeachEasyThe long pebble beach on the west side of the city, with the Beydağları mountains behind it and a promenade if you would rather walk than swim.
10–15 minutes from the centre; the tram runs along it.
Photo: Esginmurat · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Olympos and ÇıralıActiveRuins scattered through a wooded valley that opens onto a quiet beach, with the Chimaera flames burning on the hillside above after dark.
Around an hour and a half southwest; a full day.
Photo: Alinihatmataraci · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
KekovaEasyThe island the boats go out to, with a Lycian town half sunk along its shore after an earthquake and the walls still visible under clear water. Swimming is not allowed over the ruins themselves.
Around two and a half hours west to the boats; a full day.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
KaşEasyA small harbour town built down a hillside, and the diving and boat-trip base for this stretch of coast. The restaurants are the reason most people stay for dinner rather than driving back.
Getting on for three hours west; an overnight is the sane version.
Photo: Luc Coekaerts · CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
KalkanEasyWhite houses stacked above a small bay, with rooftop restaurants looking down over it and beach clubs on the water below reached by steps or a boat taxi.
Around three hours west; a full day, or a night there.
Photo: Cooty16 · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Patara BeachEasyEighteen kilometres of sand backed by dunes and a Lycian city, and a protected loggerhead turtle nesting site — which is why it closes at dusk and has almost nothing built on it.
About three and a half hours west; a full day.
Photo: Angela Stefanoni · CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kaputaş BeachActiveThe turquoise cove at the bottom of a long flight of steps between Kaş and Kalkan, and the single most photographed beach on this coast.
Around two and a half hours west — a full day, and a steep staircase.
Photo: Tbakky · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ruins6
PergeEasyA large Roman city with a colonnaded street, baths and a stadium still standing. Flat, open and almost entirely unshaded.
About 30 minutes east of the city.
Photo: Saffron Blaze · CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
AspendosEasyThe best-preserved Roman theatre anywhere in the Mediterranean, still roofed enough to be cool inside and still used for performances.
About an hour east; usually a half-day with the drive.
Photo: Lee Vilenski · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
SideEasyA seaside town built into and around Greek and Roman ruins, with the temple of Apollo standing on the point at the end of it.
About an hour and a quarter east; a full day if you swim.
Photo: Saffron Blaze · CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
TermessosActiveA ruined city high in the mountains that Alexander declined to besiege. Spectacular, and a genuinely steep climb on rough ground.
About 45 minutes, then a long uphill walk.
Photo: Ingo Mehling · CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
MyraEasyRock-cut tombs carved into the cliff face above a Roman theatre, at Demre. The church of Saint Nicholas — the actual one — is a few minutes away in the town.
About two hours and twenty minutes west; a half day with the drive.
Photo: Ingo Mehling · CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Alanya CastleActiveA Seljuk fortress wrapped around the whole headland, with the town, both beaches and the Red Tower below it. The walls run for six kilometres and the road up is steep.
About two hours east; a full day.
Photo: Hydrox · CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Waterfalls & nature5
Düden WaterfallsEasyTwo sets of falls — the upper ones in a park you can walk around in half an hour, the lower ones dropping straight into the sea from the cliffs.
15–25 minutes from the centre depending which falls.
Photo: Saffron Blaze · CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A small fall in a shaded pine canyon with a level walkway round it. Cooler than the coast and considerably quieter than Düden.
About 30 minutes northeast.
Photo: Burak Küçükarslan · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A cable car from near the coast to a 2,365-metre summit, where it is cold enough for a jacket in August. The ascent does the work; you stand still for it.
About an hour southwest, then ten minutes up.
Photo: Maasaak · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Manavgat WaterfallGentleA wide, low fall on the Manavgat river with tea gardens built out over the water beside it. More a place to sit than a place to walk, and usually combined with Side.
About an hour and a quarter east.
Photo: Spiritia · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Karain CaveEasyA limestone cave in the hills that people lived in for a very long stretch of the Palaeolithic, with a small site museum at the bottom. Cool inside on the hottest day of the year.
About 40 minutes northwest, then a short climb.
Photo: Klaus-Peter Simon · CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
In the city6
Kaleiçi, the old townGentleThe walled old quarter above the harbour — Ottoman houses, small galleries and cafés, all of it walkable and all of it flat enough to stop whenever you like.
In the centre; walkable from most city hotels.
Photo: REHBER0770 · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Karaalioğlu ParkGentleThe big clifftop park at the edge of the old town, with the sea on one side and shade on the other. Benches, a flat path, and nothing you have to do.
Walkable from Kaleiçi; a few minutes from most city hotels.
Photo: Bestalex · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Antalya MuseumGentleOne of Türkiye's largest archaeological collections, and indoors and air-conditioned — which matters more than it sounds in July or two days after surgery.
About 15 minutes from the centre; the tram stops outside.
Photo: Dat doris · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hadrian's GateGentleThe marble triumphal arch built for Hadrian's visit in 130 AD, still standing in the city wall at the entrance to the old town. Two minutes to see, and on the way to everything else.
In the centre, at the edge of Kaleiçi.
Photo: Joe Wallace · CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Yivli MinaretGentleThe fluted brick minaret that is the city's symbol, built in the 1230s and visible from most of the old town. Ten minutes to see, and the museum quarter is around it.
In the centre, at the top of Kaleiçi.
Photo: Saffron Blaze · CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hıdırlık TowerGentleA round Roman tower at the corner of Karaalioğlu Park where the old town meets the cliff, and where most of the city goes to watch the sun go down over the bay.
Walkable from Kaleiçi.
Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Active days2
Köprülü CanyonActiveA national park along the Köprüçay, and the river most rafting trips out of Antalya run on. Pine forest, a Roman bridge still in use, and water cold enough to be a shock in August.
About an hour and a quarter northeast; a full day with the river.
Photo: Gökhannergiz at Turkish Wikipedia · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Lycian WayActiveA waymarked long-distance path of more than 500 km running the coast from Fethiye to Antalya. Nobody walks all of it on a treatment trip — you walk a section and turn round.
Sections start within an hour of the city; pick one to suit the day.
With the family1
The Land of LegendsActiveA large theme and water park at Belek, with rollercoasters and a wave pool. The obvious answer if somebody has travelled with you and is not the one having treatment.
About 40 minutes east; a full day.
Photo: Philippe-Minh Nguyen · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
None of these is booked, included or arranged by us, and we have no commercial relationship with any of them — they are here because they are what is near Antalya, not because anybody paid to be on the list.
Common questions
Why do you examine people in the UK first?
Because a plan made from photographs is an estimate. An examination and a scan tell us what is actually there — including things that change the plan, like a tooth that needs root canal treatment or a jaw that needs grafting. It also means you meet someone before you book a flight.
Where does the UK examination happen?
Ballıpınar runs face-to-face consultation days in Newcastle, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and keeps an office and an aftercare clinic in London. Tell us where you are when you enquire and we will tell you which of those is nearest to you and when it next runs.
How many trips will I need?
Veneers, crowns and whitening are usually one trip. Implants and full-arch work need two, a few months apart, because the implant has to fuse with the bone before the permanent tooth goes on. Your plan states this before you book anything.
What if I change my mind after the examination?
Then you change your mind. The plan and the price are yours to take away and compare — that is rather the point of putting them in writing.
What happens if there's a problem after I get home?
You have a written guarantee and a UK point of contact. Tell us what has happened and we will sort out what is needed — that is what the guarantee is for.
No obligation
Find out what your treatment would actually cost
Send us a few details and we'll come back within a working day with what's involved and what it costs. We examine you in the UK before anything is booked.
We'll tell you if you're better off treated at home.
Start with a written plan, not a flight
A free treatment plan, tooth by tooth and yours to take away, with no obligation to go any further with it. You are seen in person in the UK before anything is booked.