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The cheap part is the flight

A dotted route leaves a marker at home, passes four waypoints over a globe, and arrives at a reclined dental chair under a surgery light. A second dotted line returns most of the way back and stops short, crossed out, before it reaches home.
Mexico vs Turkey, decidedWhat “Turkey teeth” are

Far Chair is a decision and safety guide to dental treatment abroad. It names no clinic, ranks no country and takes money from nobody — because everyone who would pay us is paid more when you book than when you walk away.

  1. A diagnosis you did not get from the sellerSomeone who is not being paid for the treatment agrees you need it.
  2. A named dentist, on a register you checkedNot a clinic name, not a coordinator, not a WhatsApp account.
  3. A written plan, with the materials on itWhich teeth, which implant system, how many trips, what is excluded.
  4. An answer to “and if it fails?”Who fixes it, where, at whose cost, and what it costs you to fly back.

Waypoints

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What this site is for

Far Chair exists for the fortnight between "I could get this done for a third of the price" and paying a deposit. That fortnight is where the decision is actually made, and it is the part of the process nobody is selling anything into.

Every other page you will find on this subject is built by someone with a stake in the answer: a clinic, a chain, an agency, or a booking platform paid a fee when a clinic accepts you. Those pages are not worthless — they are just not neutral, and the UK's Foreign Office says so in plainer language than we would dare: "private companies have a financial interest in booking your treatment and their literature should not be your only source of information."

What it will not do

It will not tell you which country to pick, because the thing that decides how your treatment goes is one dentist, one diagnosis and one aftercare arrangement, and none of those is a property of a border.

It will not name, rank, recommend or link a clinic. Not a good one, not a bad one, not "a few we like". We have examined none of them and could not responsibly vouch for any, and the moment a site starts listing clinics it acquires a reason to prefer some over others.

It will not print a complication rate, a failure rate or a revision rate, because nobody publishes one. Where the risk is real but unmeasured, the pages here describe the mechanism and say plainly that no number exists. Every page names its sources and their dates in the paragraph that uses them, and says out loud what we could not verify; how that is done is on the about page.

How the prices here work

There is no free public source for what a dental practice charges a private patient in the US or the UK. That is the quiet foundation of the entire "save most of it" genre: the figure being saved from is chosen by whoever is doing the saving.

So this site prices the work from public payer schedules instead — one state's regulation, another state's fee schedule — code by code, with the document, its effective date and the arithmetic shown, and with an explicit note that an allowed amount is not a retail price. Where a procedure has no published figure at all, which turns out to include the whole-arch work that packages are sold by, the pages say so rather than borrow a number from someone with something to sell.

Where to start

If you are weighing a destination, start with dental tourism: Mexico vs Turkey, which separates what is published from what is not and sets out the seven questions any quote has to answer.

If somebody has already offered you a full set of crowns, read what "Turkey teeth" actually are first. The irreversible step in that treatment happens before any of the rest of it, and it is the one decision on this site that cannot be taken back.

Before you go any further

Is dental treatment abroad safe?

Nobody publishes a number that would answer that, and this site will not invent one. What is published is that the risks are real and specific: the UK's Foreign Office says it is aware of 7 British nationals who died in Turkey in 2025 following medical procedures, without saying which procedures; the CDC lists wound and bloodstream infections, drug-resistant infections and blood clots after flying among the risks of medical tourism generally. The honest framing is that the risk depends almost entirely on the dentist, the diagnosis and the aftercare, and that those are the three things hardest to check from another country.

How much cheaper is it, really?

The saving is quoted against a US or UK retail price that nobody publishes. There is no free public source for what a dental practice charges a cash patient in either country, so every comparison you have read was built from a figure somebody chose. This site prices the same work from published payer schedules instead, names the schedule and the date, and says out loud which procedures have no published price at all.

What are “Turkey teeth”?

It is a nickname, not a procedure. In practice it usually means a full set of crowns, sold as veneers, fitted after the natural teeth have been reduced to hold them. Reducing a tooth removes enamel permanently, which is why the crowns being cheap matters much less than whether the teeth needed crowning. The full explanation is here.

Which country should I choose?

Far Chair does not rank countries and never will, because the thing that decides how your treatment goes is an individual dentist and an individual treatment plan, not a border. What the money page does instead is set out the questions whose answers actually differ between destinations — how many trips, who does the surgery, what happens if it fails — so you can put them to whoever you are talking to.

Does Far Chair recommend or book clinics?

No, and it takes no money from anyone who does. No clinic, chain, dentist, agency or booking platform is named, ranked, recommended or linked anywhere on this site. The disclosure page explains exactly what we turned down and why.