Shanghai Dental Navigator

What would you actually save?

Most "China dental savings" calculators compare treatment prices and stop there. That is how a $4,000 gap turns into a $200 gain once you have paid for flights twice. This one subtracts the trip, counts the second trip when the treatment needs one, and tells you when another country is the better answer.

Where do you live?
What do you need, and how much of it?
What does one round trip cost you?

How this is calculated

Deliberately boring arithmetic, shown so you can argue with it:

  1. Take the mid-point of the private price band where you live, times the quantity.
  2. Subtract the Shanghai figure. For implants this is a cost model, not a quote — see the note attached to any implant result.
  3. Subtract your trip cost — doubled for implants and full-arch work, because the bone needs three to six months to fuse before the crown goes on. That is biology, not scheduling.
  4. Check the same treatment's published price in South Korea, Hungary, Mexico and Thailand. If one of them is close enough that the flight decides it, we say so — and we say it without pretending to know what your airfare is.
  5. Turkey is the biggest destination in this market and it is missing from that list, because we have not yet obtained price data we trust. That is a gap, not an omission in Turkey's favour.

What this deliberately does not include. The value of your time, the cost of a complication that surfaces after you fly home, and the fact that pursuing a warranty claim from another country is far harder than walking back into a local practice. Those are real and they all point the same way: the saving has to be big to be worth it, not merely positive.