Bone Grafting in Turkey

What is a dental bone graft?

A dental bone graft adds bone where the jaw has become too thin or too low to hold an implant. A bone substitute material — occasionally a little of your own bone — is placed where the bone is missing, usually covered with a protective membrane, and over the following months your own bone grows into it and takes its place.

At TUA Dental bone grafting costs from £130 per cc, and it is never a separate project: it is part of planning an implant. The procedure has different names depending on where it is done. A socket graft fills the socket straight after a tooth is removed, so the bone doesn't shrink while it heals. A ridge augmentation widens or raises a narrow ridge of jawbone. A sinus lift adds bone in the upper back jaw, beneath the sinus.

Most grafts today use a bone substitute — a natural bone mineral or a fully synthetic material — that acts as a scaffold for your own bone cells. Where your dentist needs it, a small amount of your own bone is taken from nearby in the mouth. Bone taken from the hip, which you may read about, belongs to hospital surgery for large reconstructions, not to routine implant dentistry. Your treatment plan names the material your dentist will use, just as it names the implant brand.

When do you need a bone graft for a dental implant?

You need a bone graft when your 3D CT scan shows less bone than the implant needs — most often where a tooth has been missing for a long time. Many implants need no graft at all, and when one is needed it is often small; your dentist sees this on the scan and writes it into your plan before you travel.

Bone needs a tooth to keep it in place. After an extraction the ridge that held the tooth shrinks, quickest in the first months and slowly for years afterwards, so a gap left for ten years usually has less bone than a gap left for one. A denture worn for a long time presses on the ridge and speeds this up, and gum disease (periodontitis) destroys bone around the teeth before they are lost. In the upper back jaw there is a further reason: after the back teeth go, the sinus above them expands downwards, which is what a sinus lift corrects.

A 3D CT scan measures all of this to the millimetre: the height and width of the bone, its density and the position of the nerve and the sinus. That is why every implant at TUA Dental starts with a 3D scan in the clinic — the scan decides whether you need a graft, not a price list. Our team of five dentists includes a specialist in periodontology for cases where gum disease has played a part.

How a bone graft is done, step by step

A bone graft takes about 30 to 60 minutes under local anaesthetic, and in most cases it is done in the same appointment as the implant. You feel pressure and movement during the procedure, but no pain.

Doing the graft and the implant in one appointment means one procedure instead of two and no extra trip. When a defect is too large to place the implant straight away, your dentist sets the timing from your 3D scan, and your plan says so before you book — there are no surprises in the chair.

Healing and recovery after a bone graft

Most patients are back to their normal day within two to three days, while the graft itself takes several months to turn into solid bone. With a graft, the time before your final teeth is three to six months instead of two to three; your dentist confirms the exact time from your 3D scan.

If you take the medication you are given, use a cold compress and follow your dentist's advice, healing is usually comfortable. For the first week:

• eat soft, lukewarm food and chew on the other side;
• don't rinse hard, spit forcefully or drink through a straw for the first day or two;
• avoid smoking, alcohol and strenuous exercise;
• keep brushing your other teeth and rinse gently as your dentist explains.

What is normal: a little tenderness and a few small grains of graft material in your mouth in the first days. When to message us: pain that increases after the third day, a temperature, a bad taste or discharge, or a gap in the gum where the membrane shows. Your coordinator passes your photographs to the dentist, who tells you what to do.

During the healing months you live normally. The graft and the implant are under the gum, and your coordinator stays in touch until your second visit.

When can you fly after a bone graft?

Two to three days after the procedure, once your dentist has checked the site. A first visit with a bone graft therefore takes three days, the same as a straightforward implant visit.

Hotel and VIP transfer are included on both visits, and your coordinator plans the dates around direct flights to Izmir. Flights are not included; we help you plan them, free.

Bone graft cost: UK vs Turkey

In the UK a dental bone graft typically costs £400–£2,500 per site, depending on its size and the material, with minor socket grafts from about £150.¹ At TUA Dental bone grafting costs from £130 per cc, and it is added to your plan only if your 3D scan shows you need it.

No hidden costs: the price in your treatment plan is the price you pay. How much graft material you need depends on the size of the gap in the bone, which your dentist measures on the 3D scan, so your plan states the amount and the price before you book anything. Hotel and VIP transfer included. For patients from Ireland, bone grafting is from €150 per cc — every price in euro is on our Ireland page.

The UK comparison for the implant itself, including what the NHS covers, is on dental implants: UK vs Turkey, and every price we charge is on our full price list.

Get your free treatment plan — with any graft priced in advance+90 551 850 04 90

Bone graft or sinus lift?

A sinus lift is a bone graft in one particular place: the upper back jaw, beneath the maxillary sinus, where the bone is often thinnest after the back teeth are lost. At TUA Dental a sinus lift costs from £210 per side; the principle is the same as any graft, while the technique and the rules for the days afterwards are a little different.

For a whole jaw of teeth on implants, a graft or sinus lift can often be avoided: in All-on-4 and All-on-6 the back implants are angled to use the bone that is there. Your dentist chooses the approach from your 3D scan and explains it in your plan. How a sinus lift is done, how long recovery takes and when you can fly are on our sinus lift page.

Why TUA Dental for your graft and implants

We place more than 1,800 implants a year, so bone grafting is routine here, not an exception. Our Principal Dentist, Tuğçe Arslan, has placed more than 2,200 implants; our five dentists include a specialist in periodontology; the 3D CT scanner is in the clinic.

Your implant comes from an established maker — Straumann, Nobel Biocare, Neodent and the other brands on our list — with its own implant passport and a lifetime guarantee, and your crown is made in our own CAD/CAM lab with a five-year guarantee. An English-speaking patient coordinator is with you from your first message to your last check-up. How the whole implant treatment works, from the first scan to the final crown, is on our dental implants page.

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Last updated: November 7, 2026