Dental Crowns in Turkey

What is a dental crown?

A dental crown is a cap that covers the whole visible part of a tooth, restoring its shape, colour and strength. At TUA Dental crowns are metal-free — monolithic zirconia at £145 or E.max at £185 per tooth — made in our own CAD/CAM lab and fitted in one visit of six days.

"Cap" and "crown" mean the same thing: a cap is simply the older, everyday word. A crown is cemented over a tooth that has been prepared for it, or screwed onto a dental implant, and once it is in place you eat, speak and brush with it as you would with your own tooth. Because it surrounds the tooth completely, a crown holds a weakened tooth together — which a filling or a veneer cannot do.

A crown is not the same as a veneer, which covers only the front of a tooth and removes far less of it. Which of the two a tooth needs is the single most important decision in a smile makeover; veneers or crowns: how much tooth each removes explains it tooth by tooth.

When does a tooth need a crown?

A tooth needs a crown when a filling is no longer enough to hold it together: a broken or cracked tooth, a large or failing old filling, a tooth weakened after root canal treatment, or a tooth badly worn down. Crowns are also what you see and chew with on top of a dental implant, and the anchors of a bridge.

• A broken, chipped or cracked tooth — including a front tooth broken in an accident — is rebuilt to its full shape.
• Large old fillings that cover most of the tooth, or that keep failing, are replaced by a crown that protects what is left.
• After root canal treatment a back tooth becomes more brittle, and a crown protects it from splitting.
• Worn teeth, from grinding or acid erosion, get their height and shape back.
• On an implant the crown is the visible tooth; on a bridge, crowns on the neighbouring teeth carry the replacement tooth between them.

If a tooth is sound and you only want to change its colour or shape, a veneer is usually the better choice, because it keeps more of your own tooth. Your dentist decides tooth by tooth from your photographs, X-rays and 3D scan, and your free treatment plan says which each tooth gets, and why.

Zirconia or E.max: which crown is best?

Zirconia is the strongest dental ceramic and the first choice for back teeth, bridges and crowns on implants; E.max is the most translucent and the first choice where looks matter most, on front teeth. At TUA Dental a zirconia crown costs £145 and an E.max crown £185, and both are metal-free.

Your treatment plan says which material each tooth gets: often zirconia at the back and E.max where it shows. Older crowns made of porcelain fused to metal can leave a dark line at the gum as the gum recedes; metal-free crowns don't.

Do zirconia crowns have disadvantages? Three, honestly. Zirconia is slightly more opaque than E.max, which is why we use multilayer zirconia, graded in colour from neck to edge, and E.max where translucency matters most. It is very hard, so every crown is polished and glazed to be kind to the teeth that bite against it. And like any crown it needs 1–2 mm of the tooth prepared all the way round — the reason we choose a veneer whenever a tooth is sound.

How a tooth is prepared for a crown

To make room for a crown, the dentist removes 1–2 mm from all surfaces of the tooth under local anaesthetic, then takes a digital 3D scan — no impression trays — and fits a provisional crown. It is not painful, and you leave with a provisional crown that already has the shape of your new one.

How much is removed follows the material and the design. Zirconia can be made thinner than older crowns, which saves tooth; the preparation also follows the digital smile design, so the dentist knows in advance where room is needed. If a tooth has decay or an old filling underneath, it is cleaned and rebuilt first, so the crown sits on a sound core. Your crown is then milled in our own CAD/CAM lab from the scan, tried in before it is finished and adjusted the same day if anything needs it.

Your six-day visit, day by day

Crowns at TUA Dental take one visit of six days, planned over up to eight for larger cases. You arrive on day one and leave on day six with your finished crowns — hotel and VIP transfer included.

Your English-speaking patient coordinator is with you from your first message to your last check-up, and the clinic is open seven days a week. The VIP transfer meets you at Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport, about 45 minutes from the clinic, with direct flights from London Stansted, Gatwick, Manchester and Dublin — see our Kuşadası page. Flights are not included in the price; we help you plan them, free.

Bridges and crowns on implants

When a tooth is missing, a bridge or an implant replaces it. A three-unit zirconia bridge — two crowns carrying one replacement tooth between them — costs £435 at TUA Dental and is ready in the same six-day visit; an implant with a zirconia crown costs £375 and takes two visits.

A bridge is the quick choice when the neighbouring teeth need crowns anyway. When they are healthy, an implant is usually the better one, because no sound tooth is prepared. Bridges on implants work the same way: two implants carrying a three-unit bridge cost £895, for example. The crown on an implant is usually screwed onto a titanium base rather than cemented, so a dentist can remove it to clean or repair it without damaging it. How implants are placed, and why they take two visits, is on our dental implants page.

How much does a dental crown cost in the UK?

A private crown typically costs £850–£950 in zirconia and £850–£1,000 in E.max or all-ceramic in the UK, and £700–£900 for porcelain fused to metal.¹ On the NHS, a crown that is clinically needed is part of Band 3, £332.10 in England.

A crown covers the whole tooth and is the right treatment for a tooth that is broken, heavily filled or root-treated; for a sound tooth that only needs a new colour or shape, a veneer removes far less, as explained in veneers or crowns.

Prices: dental crowns in Turkey

A zirconia crown at TUA Dental costs £145 per tooth and an E.max crown £185, and in the UK a private crown typically costs £700–£1,000.¹ Hotel and VIP transfer are included. No hidden costs: the price in your treatment plan is the price you pay.

What's included: examination, X-rays, digital 3D scan, digital smile design with mock-up, provisional crowns and fitting, a hotel and VIP transfer between Izmir airport, your hotel and the clinic. Flights are not included; we help you plan them, free. No hidden costs: the price in your treatment plan is the price you pay.

UK veneer prices are compared on how much veneers cost in the UK; every price we charge is on our full price list. Patients from Ireland: a zirconia crown is €170 and an E.max crown €220; crowns count as non-routine dental treatment, so you can claim 20% back with a Form Med 2 — see our Ireland page.

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What you should know beforehand

A crown is a routine treatment with a few things worth knowing in advance: you wear provisional crowns for a few days, your teeth may be sensitive for a few days after fitting, and a crowned tooth will always need a crown. None of it gets in the way of enjoying Kuşadası between appointments.

• Provisional crowns in your new shape. Between preparation and fitting you wear provisional crowns that already look like your new ones, so you can eat, drink and smile normally.
• A few days of sensitivity to hot or cold can follow the fitting and settles by itself.
• Metal-free means invisible. No dark line at the gum, even years later, and zirconia and E.max are highly biocompatible.
• A decision for life. A tooth prepared for a crown will always need one — which is why a sound tooth gets a veneer instead.

Living with crowns: food and care

Once your crowns are cemented you eat normally, and you look after them like your own teeth: brushing twice a day, cleaning between the teeth and regular check-ups. The things to avoid are the ones that would damage natural teeth too — chewing ice, biting pens or opening packets with your teeth.

The crown itself cannot decay, but the tooth underneath can, where it meets the crown at the gum. That is where cleaning matters most: floss or interdental brushes every day, and a water flosser if you have several crowns, to reach where a toothbrush can't. Keep your six-monthly check-ups with your own dentist, who can look after crowns made anywhere. If you grind your teeth at night, a night guard protects your crowns and the teeth they bite against — ask us about one.

How long do dental crowns last?

With good care, zirconia and E.max crowns last many years — about 97 to 98 in 100 are still in place after five years in the latest large review — and at TUA Dental every crown carries a five-year guarantee. What shortens a crown's life is the same as for natural teeth: grinding, biting hard objects, gum disease and missed check-ups.

How long crowns, veneers and implants last, treatment by treatment, and what makes the difference, has its own chapter in this guide: how long Turkey teeth last.

Why TUA Dental for your crowns

We make every crown in our own CAD/CAM lab, so your crowns are adjusted at the try-ins directly on you, the same day. Five dentists treat more than 3,000 patients a year from 32 countries and plan more than 220 smile designs a year, led by our Principal Dentist Tuğçe Arslan; and the clinic holds the Turkish Ministry of Health's licence for international patients and ISO 9001.

Your crowns carry a five-year guarantee, you go home with a treatment record your own dentist can read, and your English-speaking coordinator stays your contact after you fly home. If you are thinking about a full set, our Hollywood Smile page explains how 20 or 24 crowns are designed as one smile.

Real results

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Last updated: November 7, 2026