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Why a comparison trip exists at all

Almost every UK patient who ends up in an Antalya dental chair got there the same way: a WhatsApp thread, a photograph of their own teeth taken at arm's length in a bathroom mirror, and a number. The number is usually a good one. What it is not is a treatment plan. Nobody has looked in the mouth, nobody has taken a three-dimensional scan, and the person quoting has every commercial reason to quote low now and revise upward once you have landed.

A comparison trip turns that around. Three separate clinics examine the same mouth on the same day, you ask all three the same questions, and you leave each building holding a written, itemised quote. Then you fly home. The comparison happens at your own kitchen table in the UK, with the paperwork spread out in front of you — not in a consulting room in Antalya with a coordinator waiting outside the door and a return flight already paid for.

MEDgo carries the cost of the travel because the clinics are willing to pay to be seen. A patient sitting in the chair converts far better than a photograph in an inbox, and three clinics sharing the cost of one flight is inexpensive advertising by any measure. That is the whole economics of it, and it is also exactly why the dentistry can never be part of the deal. The trip is free. The treatment is not. If you decide to go ahead, the clinic you choose quotes you and bills you directly, in writing, under its own name — and if you decide against all three, you have spent nothing.

Why three price bands, and not three similar clinics

Comparing three clinics that all sit at the same point in the market tells you almost nothing. You get three numbers within a few hundred pounds of each other and no idea what any of them buys. The itinerary is built to spread across the market on purpose: the most expensive of the three, the cheapest, and one in between.

Seeing the spread is what makes the difference legible. When the same mouth produces three quotes and the gap between the top and the bottom is several thousand pounds, the useful question stops being "which is cheapest" and becomes "what does the extra actually pay for, and do I want it".

None of that tells you which clinic is right for your case. A price band is a commercial position, not a clinical ranking: the cheapest quote is not automatically the wrong one and the dearest is not automatically the safe one. Which treatment suits your mouth is a judgement only a named clinician can make after examining you, and each of the three will make it separately, in writing.

Flying from London: airports, timings and the same-day return

The campaign is built around London because that is where the route, the fares and the demand are. Antalya's London services run from Gatwick, Heathrow, Stansted and Luton depending on the carrier and the season, and a direct sector is roughly four hours each way — which is exactly what makes a morning arrival, three consultations and an evening flight home fit inside one day.

Two things to settle before you accept a date. Which London airport you leave from, and whether your date is flying direct: that is named on your written confirmation, and direct London to Antalya capacity is at its thinnest in midwinter, so a connecting routing is possible on some dates and it changes the timings materially. If a same-day return matters to you, say so at the enquiry stage rather than after the confirmation arrives.

The same-day return and the 1-night stay are alternatives, not a default and an opt-out. Both cost you nothing. The night is worth taking if you would rather read three quotes over dinner than on a late flight, and worth declining if you would rather sleep at home and be at work on Thursday.

What the three quotes are actually compared against

The comparison that decides anything is not between the three Antalya quotes. It is between those three and the quote you already hold in London — and that is the comparison this page deliberately does not do for you with a headline percentage.

There is a reason for that. A saving figure is only honest if it compares like with like: the same number of units, the same implant and ceramic systems, the same laboratory work, the same guarantee, the same number of visits, and both prices current. Almost no advertised "save up to" number survives that test, and you cannot check ours any more than you can check anyone else's. What you can check is your own itemised private quote, line by line, against three itemised quotes for the same mouth taken on the same day.

So bring it. Get your London quote itemised before you fly — the number of units, the systems by brand name, what is excluded, the guarantee terms — and put it on the table as the fourth column. If you want indicative ranges to orient yourself first, our guide to dental implant costs in Turkey and the veneer cost guide set out what drives the numbers on both sides.

Aftercare when you live in London

This is the part that decides whether treatment abroad was a good idea eighteen months later, and it is the part the adverts skip.

Ask every one of the three clinics the same four questions and write the answers down. Who do I contact from London, and how quickly do they answer? What exactly does the guarantee cover, for how long, and what voids it? If something needs redoing, who pays for the treatment and who pays for the flight? And what will you send me for my records — the itemised plan, the radiographs, the implant or ceramic system details, and the batch or reference numbers?

Then plan the UK side. A London dentist can see you for hygiene visits, reviews and emergencies, and many will; none of them is obliged to correct another provider's work for free, and most will charge for assessing it. Budget for a UK hygiene appointment at the intervals your clinic specifies, keep every document in one place, and register the work with your own dentist so it is on your record before you need it in a hurry.

Who the comparison trip suits

• You are weighing work big enough that thousands of pounds separate a fair quote from a poor one — full-arch treatment, several implants, or a full set of crowns or veneers.
• You already hold one quote, from anywhere, and cannot tell whether it is reasonable.
• You want to walk through the building, look at the sterilisation room and meet the person who would treat you before you commit, rather than after.
• You can release one weekday and are comfortable flying out and back inside forty-eight hours.
• You want the decision made at home, in your own time, on paper.

Who should not book this trip

This is the shorter list, and the more important one. Say so at the enquiry stage and nobody will try to talk you round.

• You are in pain, or something is broken or infected right now. See a dentist in the UK this week. A consultation trip on a fixed date weeks away is not urgent care, and no clinic on the itinerary treats you on the day.
• You have already chosen your clinic and are ready to start. You would be spending a day on two consultations you do not want. Ask about a treatment trip instead — that is a different, paid arrangement.
• You need one small thing. A single filling, a scale and polish, one straightforward crown. The flight may be free but your day is not, and the sums rarely work.
• You cannot fly comfortably, or you need medical support in the air. Roughly four hours each way, three appointments in between, and a long day on your feet.
• You are hoping the dentistry turns out to be free too. It will not be, and nobody on the trip will imply otherwise. What is free is the return flight, the airport pickup, the transfers, the three consultations and the optional hotel night.
• You want somebody else to choose for you. Your coordinator books, drives and translates. They do not rank the three clinics and they are not paid more if you pick one.

How the fixed dates and the places on them work

Departures are fortnightly Wednesdays across the low-fare window, and they are fixed rather than flexible because three appointments have to be booked around each other at three different clinics with three different diaries. One patient moving a date moves nine appointments.

The Christmas and New Year fortnight is deliberately missing from the grid. London fares spike, the clinics run reduced lists, and a departure there could not be honoured at campaign terms — so it is not offered rather than offered and quietly downgraded.

Each date carries a small fixed number of places for the same reason. When a date fills it is marked closed here and the next open date is offered instead. Nothing is held in your name until your written confirmation arrives naming the flight, the hotel and the three clinics; the grid on this page is the same list the coordinators work from, so what you see is what is actually open.

What happens after you fly home

You land back in the UK holding three written quotes and owing nobody anything. In practice four things follow, in this order.

1. You compare like with like. Line the three up against the same questions and check each one names the treating clinic and clinician, the stages, the material risks, the alternatives, an itemised total, the exclusions, the guarantee terms and the aftercare route. A quote missing any of those is not comparable to one that has them.
2. You ask the follow-up questions in writing. Everything that only occurred to you on the plane home. Answers that arrive in writing are worth something later; answers given on the phone are not.
3. You choose, or you do not. If you choose, the clinic itself — not WeCare and not MEDgo — sends you the treatment agreement, the deposit request and the dates, and the money goes to the clinic. Stage the payments, and do not pay in full before the scan taken on the treatment trip has confirmed the plan.
4. The treatment trip is a separate trip, and it is paid. Flights, hotel nights and transfers for the actual treatment are quoted separately and are not covered by this campaign. Ask what a second visit would cost before you commit to the first.

There is no deadline attached to any of this. The quotes stay valid for the period each clinic states in writing, and choosing none of the three is a normal outcome that costs you nothing.

If you are researching the wider picture rather than this trip specifically, start with dental treatment in Turkey from London — the airports, the timings, the money and the aftercare, written for a London patient. For the whole UK journey including flight seasons out of other airports, what travel insurance actually excludes and how to stage payments safely, read our guide to dental treatment from the UK to Turkey. If you would rather speak to somebody in person before flying anywhere, the UK dental information days in Leeds and Birmingham run in September 2026. And if it is the treatment itself you are still researching, the dental implants service page and our honest guide to implant costs in Turkey set out what the quotes you collect will be describing.