Results and reputation
What our work looks like, and where to check us
Eight real cases from the clinic's own gallery, the review platforms you can read without asking us, and the awkward half — what none of it tells you about your own mouth.
Before and after
Eight cases, and what we do not know about them
Forty images in the clinic's gallery were reviewed. Twenty were finished-smile portraits rather than pairs, and were skipped. Of the twenty genuine pairs these eight were chosen because the 'before' shows real clinical need and the 'after' keeps some natural character — the very white, very uniform results were left out on purpose.
Before: A missing upper tooth and a visible gap. 
Before: Several missing upper teeth and wide gaps. 
Before: Chipped and unevenly worn front teeth. 
Before: Crowding and spacing across the upper front teeth. 
Before: Wear and discolouration across the upper front teeth. 
Before: Uneven edges and shade across the upper front teeth. 
Before: Heavy damage and decay across the upper teeth. 
Before: Wear, discolouration and uneven edges.
Ballıpınar's own patients, published by Ballıpınar. Mirrored on 18 August 2026 from Ballıpınar Dental Centre's own published case gallery. Nothing on this page is generated, and no other clinic's photographs appear anywhere on this site.
What we cannot tell you about them. The clinic's gallery carries no case notes, so we do not know which materials were used in each case, how long after treatment the second photograph was taken, or whether either photograph was edited. We would rather say that than imply a timescale nobody has confirmed.
Eight cases, not a typical result. What is achievable depends on your own teeth, gums and bone, and is assessed at the UK examination — not from a photograph of somebody else. Some people are told a smaller job would suit them better, and some are told to have gum treatment first.
Independently
Go and check us somewhere we do not control
We do not reproduce review text here — not ours and not the UK practices' we list. It belongs to the people who wrote it, and a quote we chose ourselves tells you nothing except which quote we chose. The links above go to platforms we do not control, where you can read the bad ones too.
Figures read on 19 August 2026. They move — check the current one on the platform rather than taking ours.
Trustpilot
Independent of us. Trustpilot invites reviews and publishes the ones it verifies, including any that are not flattering.
5.0
153 reviews
WhatClinic
A clinic directory used mostly by patients travelling for treatment, so the reviews are from people who did the same thing you are considering.
36 reviews
Google
The clinic's Google listing, which is also where the reviews for every UK practice in this directory come from.
Scale
What the clinic publishes about itself
Volume, not outcomes. How many implants a practice places in a year is a checkable operational fact; a success rate would be a clinical claim needing a study behind it, and we do not have one.
- Since 1975
- The clinic has been open
- Corroborated inside this site rather than taken on trust: the longest-serving dentist on the team qualified in 1978, which makes a half-century practice a plausible thing rather than a round number somebody liked.
- ~1,200
- Implants placed a year
- Volume matters for implant work in a way it does not for a filling. It is the difference between a surgeon who does this weekly and one who does it occasionally.
- 40,000+
- Veneers and crowns fitted
- Fitted in the clinic's own laboratory, which is also why the turnaround inside one trip is possible at all.
- 18
- Dentists on the team
- Eight of them specialists — surgeons, orthodontists, a periodontist and an endodontist — each named with their university and year of qualification.
Figures as published by the clinic at ballipinar.net, read on 19 August 2026 from ballipinar.net. The clinic also publishes more than one million treatments in over 50 years — we report that rather than assert it, because it is not a number anyone outside the clinic can check. The dentist count and the specialist breakdown are our own count of the clinic's published team list, which is below.
Who does the work
Named clinicians, with the university and the year
The hardest thing to establish on a dental-tourism page is that real, qualified people do the work, and most clinics answer it with a stock photo of someone in scrubs. This is the clinic's own published team list.
18 dentists, 8 of them specialists — 4 oral and maxillofacial surgeons, 2 orthodontists, 1 periodontist and 1 endodontist. The one who has been qualified longest took his degree in 1978.
Uzm. Dt. Onur Güneş
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Ankara University, 2008
Uzm. Dt. Gülçin Yıldırım
Orthodontist
İstanbul University, 2008
Uzm. Dt. Yüksel Eren
Endodontist
İstanbul University, 2013
Uzm. Dt. Mustafa Burak Demirci
Periodontist
Karadeniz Technical University, 2015
Uzm. Dt. Fatma Merve Gökçe
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Ege University, 2016
Uzm. Dt. Anıl Çomruk
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Hacettepe University, 2019
Dt. Sevgi Budak
Dentist
İzmir Kâtip Çelebi University, 2018
Dt. Yiğit Çankaya
Dentist
Süleyman Demirel University, 2019
The clinic publishes a photograph of 8 of the 18; the rest are named on our Antalya clinic page with their qualifications. None of them has reviewed the treatment pages on this site — a medical reviewer is someone who has read a page and put their name to it, and borrowing a surgeon's name from a staff list to fill that slot would be inventing a review that never happened.
Authorisations
Two numbered licences, and which is which
They are commonly conflated, including by clinics who benefit from the confusion. One authorises a clinic to treat international patients; the other authorises a company to arrange the journey. Ballıpınar holds both, and they are not the same document.
The treating clinic
ST-5530
Özel Ballıpınar Ağız ve Diş Sağlığı Polikliniği
Issued by USHAŞ, Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Health
Authorises the clinic itself to carry out international health tourism. This is the one that matters for who treats you. The clinic's own dental authorisation number is ST-5530.
The travel side
AK-1677
Ballıpınar VİP Travel Uluslararası Sağlık Turizmi A.Ş.
Issued by USHAŞ, Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Health
Authorises a company to arrange and coordinate the journey — flights, transfers, accommodation. It is explicitly not a healthcare-provider authorisation, and any clinic presenting one as if it were is telling you something.
Both carry document codes issued by USHAŞ, the Türkiye Ministry of Health's international health services company, and both can be checked against it — which is the only kind of credential this site publishes. The certificates themselves are on the clinic page.
Afterwards
The part most clinics abroad have no answer for
A result in a photograph is worth less than knowing who looks at it in eighteen months. These are the UK commitments Ballıpınar already publishes, so you can go and check each one.
A London office
Ballıpınar's UK base — the point of contact before you travel and after you're home, in the same time zone as you.
Published at ballipinar.net/ballipinar-london-connection
A London aftercare clinic
Follow-up appointments happen in the UK, not by email from another country. This is the part most dental-tourism clinics have no answer for.
Published at ballipinar.net/london-aftercare-clinic
Face-to-face consultation days around the UK
Newcastle, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh — so the UK step isn't only available to people who can reach the capital.
Published at ballipinar.net/newcastle-dental-consultation
Free dental meet-ups
Open sessions where you can be seen and get a treatment plan without committing to anything at all.
Published at ballipinar.net/free-dental-meet-up
Platinum sponsor, Gillingham FC
A public, checkable commitment to a UK community — not a badge we made ourselves.
Published at ballipinar.net/gillingham-sponsorship
The awkward half
What none of this tells you
- Not whether it would work for you.Eight cases is eight cases. What is achievable depends on your own teeth, gums and bone, and is assessed at the UK examination — not from somebody else's photograph and not by us over WhatsApp.
- Not how long these results have held.The clinic's gallery has no dates on it. An "after" photograph with no interval implies permanence, and we are not going to imply it on your behalf.
- Not that the trip is right for you. For one implant, one crown or a filling it usually is not — two flights and the time off eat the difference. The price comparison is built to say so, and does.
- Not that we are impartial. We are the clinic. This directory lists the UK practices we compete with, unpaid and unranked by us, and we say so on every page — including this one.
Or judge for yourself, in person
The free UK meet-ups are open sessions — other patients come to them, nobody is chaperoning the conversation, and you can be seen and get a treatment plan without committing to anything.
Common questions
Why are there no patient reviews written out on this page?
Because they are not ours to reproduce. This site publishes the aggregate rating and review count for around 4,800 UK practices and never their review text, for the same reason — it belongs to the people who wrote it. Quoting our own while withholding theirs would tell you something about us, and not the flattering thing. The links on this page go to platforms we do not control, where the unflattering reviews are still there.
Are the before-and-after photographs real?
Yes, and they are the clinic's own patients, published by the clinic on its own site with its logo in the frame. Nothing on this site is a generated before-and-after and nothing ever will be — a generated one is a claim about an outcome that never happened. What we cannot tell you is which materials were used in each case or how long after treatment the second photograph was taken, because the clinic's gallery carries no case notes. We say so under the pictures rather than implying a timescale nobody has confirmed.
Do these results mean I would get the same?
No, and anyone telling you otherwise from a photograph is guessing. What is achievable depends on your own teeth, gums and bone, and it is assessed at the UK examination before anything is booked. Some people are told a smaller job would suit them better; some are told to have gum treatment first; some are told the trip is not worth it for what they need.
Can I speak to someone who has been treated there?
Ask us and we will try to arrange it, with their permission — we will not hand out a former patient's details without it. The free UK meet-ups are usually easier: they are open sessions, other patients come to them, and nobody is chaperoning the conversation.
What happens if something goes wrong after I am home?
There is a London aftercare clinic and consultation days around the UK, so a follow-up is a train ride rather than a flight. That is the part of dental tourism most clinics have no answer for, and it is the honest reason to weigh us against a practice on your own high street rather than against a clinic abroad with a UK phone number and nothing behind it.
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.