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Brianza Dent · Tirana, Albania
Accredited by QK-CSA · Licensed Day Hospital · Treating patients since 1998

A full arch of fixed teeth, rebuilt in Albania's only accredited dental Day Hospital

Most British patients who come to us have carried the same problem for years: a mouth that needs rebuilding, a private quote they cannot justify, and an NHS list that either has no space or does not cover the work at all. This clinic exists for exactly that category of case — full arches on implants, multiple implants, full mouth rehabilitation and total reconstruction — for a fraction of a UK private quote.

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The first assessment is free and happens from home. Nothing is quoted, planned or promised before the surgical team has seen your imaging.

The clinical team of Brianza Dent, the accredited dental Day Hospital in Tirana, Albania

The clinical teamFifty people, one building, one accreditation.

Walk through the clinic
0Founded, and under the same clinical direction ever since
0The only QK-CSA accredited dental clinic in Albania
~0hDirect flying time from London to Tirana
0µmPIC photogrammetry accuracy across multiple implants

Major and total work

What this clinic is actually for

Nobody flies to another country for a filling. British patients arrive here because most of their teeth are gone or failing, because bridgework fitted twenty years ago has collapsed, because they cannot live with a denture that moves, or because a UK private practice has quoted a rebuild running into tens of thousands of pounds. Those are surgical cases, and they are the centre of everything below.

01

All-on-4 and All-on-6

A whole arch of teeth — upper, lower or both — carried by four or six implants placed where the jaw still has strong bone. The implants are angled deliberately, so existing bone is used rather than rebuilt first. The teeth are fixed: screwed onto the implants, cleaned in the mouth, removable only by a clinician.

  • Patients missing all, or nearly all, of the teeth in an arch
  • Remaining teeth not worth saving — advanced gum disease, failed root fillings, fractured teeth
  • Long-term denture wearers who cannot tolerate a removable plate
  • Reduced bone volume, refused conventional implants elsewhere

Four implants or six is a clinical decision, not a package choice — it is read off your CBCT scan and the reasoning is given to you in writing before you agree to anything.

Ask whether your arch is suitable
02

Full mouth rehabilitation

The rebuilding of a whole mouth, where the problem is no longer individual teeth but the system they belong to: a collapsed bite, worn-down teeth, old crowns and bridges failing at the same time, bone lost to gum disease, missing molars that have let everything else drift. Both arches are treated as one plan, because a bite is a relationship between them.

  • Heavy wear from grinding or acid erosion, with the lower face shortened
  • Decades of accumulated dentistry now failing all at once
  • Advanced periodontal cases, where the plan decides honestly what is kept
  • Mixed cases: some teeth savable, some not, implants needed in between

The plan is built backwards, from the intended result. Anyone offering a finished full mouth rebuild in three days is describing a schedule, not a protocol.

Request a full mouth assessment
03

Multiple implants and complex cases

A large share of what arrives here has been declined somewhere else. The reasons are usually anatomical, and they are usually solvable — but they need a clinic that can operate, not only restore.

  • "There isn't enough bone" — guided bone regeneration, sinus lift, sandwich osteotomy of the atrophic posterior mandible, angled placement
  • Anatomy close to the inferior alveolar nerve or the maxillary sinus — 3D planning, piezosurgery, nerve mobilisation
  • Failed previous work: implants placed in the wrong position, bridges on inadequate support, arches that never fitted

Prof. Dr. Mavriqi co-authors peer-reviewed studies on several of these techniques, indexed on PubMed, where you can read them yourself.

Send imaging for a second opinion
04

Total reconstruction

For the largest cases, surgery, prosthetics and aesthetics are not separate treatments bought one after another — they are one plan with one target. Extractions, grafting, implant placement, the provisional arch, the definitive prosthesis and the aesthetic result are sequenced from the start.

  • Produced in the clinic's own dental laboratory in the same building
  • Long surgical sessions under sedation or general anaesthesia, anaesthesiologist present
  • Pre-operative blood work processed in the clinic's own biochemical laboratory
  • Monitored recovery inside the same accredited structure

That is why the Day Hospital licence matters for this category of work — a correction is a walk down a corridor, not a fortnight of posting a case back and forth.

Ask for a staged reconstruction plan

Supporting treatments

These are the disciplines that finish a major case. They are listed briefly because they are part of a reconstruction plan here, not standalone reasons to fly.

  • Aesthetic dentistry — Veneers, crowns and Digital Smile Design, used to define the appearance of a rebuilt arch and to match the natural teeth that are kept.
  • Oral surgery — Extractions, grafting, sinus lift and other preparatory surgery carried out in house, under sedation or general anaesthesia where indicated.
  • Prosthetics — The fixed bridges, full-arch prostheses and zirconia work produced in the clinic's own laboratory and fitted to the surgical plan.

Step one is free, and you do not travel to find out

Send a recent panoramic X-ray, photographs of your smile and a short description of your situation. The surgical team reviews the imaging and replies with an opinion on what is realistic in your case.

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Why this clinic, for work of this size

Planning you can verify, execution you can measure

The gap between a good implant plan and a good implant result is execution: whether the implant ends up where the plan said it should, in three dimensions, to within fractions of a millimetre. In full-arch work that is not a detail — when four or six implants have to carry one rigid bridge, they must be correct in relation to each other and to the intended teeth.

Robot-guided implant placement holding the planned drilling axis during full-arch surgery at Brianza Dent
AI-assisted robotic placementThe surgeon operates; the robot holds him to the plan. Position, angle and depth are planned on your 3D data and executed under robotic guidance, instead of being reproduced freehand.
AI-assisted CBCT and intraoral scan planning of implant positions before full-arch surgery
3D CT and digital planningBone volume, bone density, arch shape, nerve and sinus position — the number of implants and the loading protocol are read off your own data, not off a price list.
PIC photogrammetry recording the exact positions of multiple implants before the definitive bridge is made
PIC photogrammetryA digital impression technique developed since 2010 exclusively for multiple-implant restorations, accurate to within four microns and validated by more than eighteen peer-reviewed studies. Your bridge is made to your mouth rather than adjusted into it.
RayFace 3D facial scan used to design a full arch in relation to the patient's facial proportions
3D RayFace facial scanningAI aligns a three-dimensional facial scan with intraoral scans and CT data within seconds, so the arch is designed in relation to your lips, smile line and facial proportions — not only to your jawbone.

Alongside these: ZFX and Oral Scan intraoral scanning, MODJAW 4D jaw-motion recording, Zirkonzahn and iMES iCORE milling, Laser EOS production, and a hyperbaric oxygen capsule — the only one in an Albanian dental clinic — used to support recovery after surgical and implant procedures.

Further reading

Two things to read before you decide

Written for patients who are still weighing this up: what a full arch actually costs and how that figure is built, and how to check a clinic abroad — including this one — before you send anyone a deposit.

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All-on-4 cost, explained line by line

The prices the clinic publishes, per arch and by prosthetic material, what sits inside them and what does not, the five clinical factors that move the figure in your own case, and the travel costs to add before you compare with a UK quote.

Read the cost breakdown

02

Dental implants abroad — a practical guide

How to verify accreditation and the surgeon, what imaging and history to send for a first opinion, twelve questions to ask before you pay anything, how the two trips work, and the signals that should slow you down.

Read the guide

Free remote assessment

Send your X-ray. Get a straight answer.

Including, where that is the answer, that the protocol you were hoping for is not suitable for your anatomy. There is no charge and no obligation.

  • A written opinion from the surgical team on what is realistic in your case
  • A proposed protocol: how many implants, which arch, grafting, immediate or delayed loading
  • An itemised estimate and the warranty terms, in writing, before you travel
  • Confirmation against your CT scan on the first day in Tirana, before treatment starts

Prefer to speak to someone? Call or send your imaging to +355 69 376 6406.

Prefer not to use the form? Write to us on WhatsApp — reply in 24 hours.

The setting

A Day Hospital, not a dental surgery

In the UK a dental practice is regulated by the CQC and its clinicians by the GDC, and you take that for granted. Abroad, the equivalent question is the one most patients never think to ask: who inspected this clinic, and against what standard? Brianza Dent is accredited by QK-CSA — the National Centre for Quality, Safety and Accreditation of Health Institutions — and is the only dental clinic in Albania to hold that accreditation. It is separately licensed as a Day Hospital: a different category of institution, able to admit you for a procedure, treat you under sedation or general anaesthesia with an anaesthesiologist present, and monitor your recovery on site.

Day Hospital operating theatre in Tirana where implant surgery is performed under anaesthesiology monitoring
Operating theatre and anaesthesiologyLong surgical sessions in one sitting, with sedation or general anaesthesia and monitored recovery afterwards. For patients who have avoided dentistry for years out of fear, this is often the reason treatment becomes possible at all.
Sterile surgical tray prepared before implant surgery at the accredited Brianza Dent Day Hospital
Biochemical laboratory on siteYour pre-operative blood work is processed in the building, before surgery, and monitored afterwards — relevant for anyone with diabetes, clotting issues, cardiac history or long-term medication.
In-house digital dental laboratory producing a zirconia full arch for a Brianza Dent patient
In-house dental laboratoryYour prosthesis is designed and produced in house, which is why a fit can be checked, adjusted and re-checked while you are still in Tirana rather than after you have flown home.

When the claim on this site is "the best", it refers to that: a documented accreditation held by one clinic in the country. Not an opinion about outcomes.

Prof. Dr. Luan Mavriqi, professor of implantology and clinical director at Brianza Dent, Tirana

The surgeon

Prof. Dr. Luan Mavriqi

Brianza Dent has been under the same clinical direction since 1998. Prof. Dr. Mavriqi qualified in dentistry in 1998 and took a bachelor's degree in orthodontics in Tirana in 2004. His surgical training was done abroad and repeatedly: oral implantology and aesthetic dentistry at the University "G. d'Annunzio" in Chieti–Pescara, Italy; implantology and periodontology, with mucogingival surgery and bone regeneration, in 2006–2007; implantology at Columbia University in 2010; and laser dentistry at the University of Ulm, Germany, in 2012. He holds a master's qualification in Digital Smile Design and is a professor of implantology.

Two things are worth more to a patient than any of that. First, he publishes: his work on implant surfaces, bone substitutes, sinus membrane perforation, microgap and nerve mobilisation appears in peer-reviewed journals indexed on PubMed, where you can read it yourself. Second, he teaches: the clinic runs a specialisation programme in advanced implantology for other dentists. The person operating on your jaw trains the people who operate on other people's.

Prof. Dr. Luan Mavriqi teaching the advanced implantology specialisation programme for dentists
The specialisation programme in advanced implantology, run at the clinic for other dentists.

Ask us for the documentation before you send anything

The accreditation, the surgeon's qualifications and publications, the warranty terms in writing, and comparable finished cases. Put that checklist to any clinic — including this one.

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Why British patients come to Tirana

The cost difference is largest exactly where the work is biggest

What decides your figure

Full-arch and full mouth treatment is where UK private pricing hurts most, and therefore where the difference is most worth crossing a border for. We do not publish a headline price, because a headline price for this kind of treatment is meaningless until someone has seen your bone.

  • How many implants, in which arch, and at what angles
  • Whether grafting or a sinus lift is needed
  • Whether extractions are required, and how many
  • Immediate loading with a temporary arch, or a delayed protocol
  • The material of the definitive prosthesis
  • Sedation or general anaesthesia
  • The condition of the teeth that are being kept

You get a written, itemised estimate after the free remote assessment, confirmed against your CT scan on the first day in Tirana — before any treatment starts. If your case is simpler than the X-ray suggested, the figure goes down.

No waiting list — and no expectation the NHS will cover this

Two separate problems get confused at home. The first is access: finding an NHS dentist taking new patients, then waiting for an appointment. The second is scope: implant-based rehabilitation is generally not available on the NHS except in specific clinical circumstances, so for most people the realistic NHS options for a failing mouth are extractions and dentures. Those are legitimate treatments. They are not the same treatment as a fixed arch.

Here the sequence is set by your case and your healing, not by a queue: assessment within days of sending your imaging, and surgery scheduled around your travel. The honest constraint is biological — bone needs three to six months to integrate implants, and no clinic anywhere can shorten that.

Practically, from the UK

  • Flights: Tirana International Airport is served by direct flights from London and other UK airports, at around three hours' flying time.
  • Entry: British passport holders do not currently need a visa for short visits to Albania. Check the FCDO's Albania travel advice before you book, as requirements can change.
  • Time and language: Albania is one hour ahead of the UK. Everything clinical is handled in English.
  • How long you need: typically one trip for surgery and a second, shorter trip for the definitive prosthesis after healing.
  • Insurance: arrange travel insurance that covers a planned medical procedure abroad. Standard holiday policies usually do not.

You are met at Tirana airport and brought to the clinic. Airport pick-up and help with accommodation are arranged for patients travelling for major treatment.

What you should weigh honestly before deciding

Treatment abroad is a genuine option, not a free lunch. It means travelling for follow-up appointments, arranging any emergency care at home through a UK dentist, and choosing a clinic on documentation rather than on a friend's recommendation down the road. It is worth asking any clinic — including this one — for its accreditation, the surgeon's qualifications and publications, the warranty terms in writing, and comparable finished cases before you commit. If a clinic will not put those in writing, that answers the question.

The process

How it works, in four steps

Digital intraoral scanning and treatment planning for a full-arch case at Brianza Dent
Implant surgery carried out under anaesthesiology monitoring in the Brianza Dent Day Hospital

Free remote consultation

You send a recent panoramic X-ray or CT scan, photographs of your smile and a short description of your situation and medical history. The surgical team reviews the imaging and replies with an opinion on what is realistic in your case. No charge, no obligation, no travel.

Your written plan and itemised estimate

A proposed protocol — how many implants, which arch or arches, whether grafting is likely, immediate or delayed loading, which prosthetic material, how many trips and roughly how long each — with an itemised cost estimate and the warranty terms. Provisional at this stage, because it is based on a two-dimensional X-ray.

Travel and treatment

You are met at Tirana airport. A 3D CT scan and intraoral scan are taken and the surgical plan is finalised on your real data — this is where plan and cost become definitive. Pre-operative blood work is processed on site. Surgery follows the digital plan under robotic guidance, with sedation or general anaesthesia where indicated. Where your case allows immediate loading, a temporary fixed arch is fitted before you leave.

Your definitive arch

After a healing period of roughly three to six months you return for the definitive prosthesis. It is designed and produced in the clinic's own laboratory and, in multi-implant cases, verified with PIC photogrammetry before it is fitted. Follow-up continues after you go home, and any revision work covered by your warranty is carried out here.

Results

Cases that started where yours is now

The most useful thing for someone facing a full-arch decision is a mouth that started where theirs is now. Every case below is a completed total reconstruction carried out at Brianza Dent and published with the patient's written consent.

Before
Before treatment: an edentulous upper jaw before full-arch implant rehabilitation at Brianza Dent, published with the patient's written consent
After
After treatment: both arches rebuilt with fixed implant-supported prostheses at Brianza Dent, published with the patient's written consent
Both arches, fixed on implantsAn edentulous upper jaw and a failing lower arch, rebuilt as a single case and finished with fixed prostheses on implants.
Full mouth · fixed arches on implants
Before
Before treatment: an upper arch with advanced tooth loss before All-on full-arch implant treatment, published with the patient's written consent
After
After treatment: a fixed upper full arch on implants replacing advanced tooth loss, published with the patient's written consent
Upper arch, All-on protocolAdvanced loss and mobility across the upper arch, replaced with a fixed full arch carried on implants placed in the remaining bone.
Upper arch · fixed full arch on implants
Before
Before treatment: worn and decayed teeth across both arches before full mouth rehabilitation at Brianza Dent, published with the patient's written consent
After
After treatment: both arches restored in a full mouth rehabilitation at Brianza Dent, published with the patient's written consent
Full mouth rehabilitationDecades of accumulated wear, decay and failing dentistry across both arches, planned backwards from the intended result and rebuilt as one case.
Both arches · full mouth rehabilitation
Before
Before treatment: missing and broken upper front teeth before multiple implant treatment at Brianza Dent, published with the patient's written consent
After
After treatment: an upper arch restored on multiple implants at Brianza Dent, published with the patient's written consent
Multiple implants, upper archMissing and broken anterior teeth with insufficient support for conventional bridgework, restored on multiple implants.
Upper arch · multiple implants

These are individual cases. What is achievable in yours depends on your own anatomy, bone, soft tissue and general health, and can only be established after examination and imaging. Nothing here should be read as a promise of a particular outcome.

Book your free assessment

Send your X-ray and ask the question you actually want answered

The surgical team reviews your imaging and replies with a written opinion. No charge, no obligation, and no need to travel to find out.

  • Free remote assessment from your panoramic X-ray or CT scan
  • A written, itemised estimate and the warranty terms before you travel
  • Everything clinical handled in English
  • Airport pick-up and help with accommodation for major treatment

Prefer to speak to someone? Call or send your imaging to +355 69 376 6406.

Prefer not to use the form? Write to us on WhatsApp — reply in 24 hours.

See it before you book a flight

Photographs are chosen. A walkthrough is not.

Before agreeing to hours of surgery in another country, look at the rooms it will happen in. The virtual tour lets you move through the actual building — reception, operating rooms, the laboratory, the recovery area and the Privé Zone — from your sofa in the UK.

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Reception at Brianza Dent in Tirana, the accredited Day Hospital where UK patients are treated
ReceptionRr. Bardhok Biba, Tirana.
The Privé Zone patient lounge at the Brianza Dent Day Hospital in Tirana
The Privé ZoneWhere patients wait, and recover, between stages of treatment.

Questions British patients actually ask

Frequently asked questions

How much will a full arch cost, compared with what I have been quoted in the UK?

We will not put a single final figure on a web page, because until someone has seen your bone that figure is a guess. What decides it: how many implants and in which arch, whether grafting or a sinus lift is needed, how many extractions, immediate loading or a delayed protocol, the material of the definitive prosthesis, sedation or general anaesthesia, and the condition of any teeth being kept.

You get a written, itemised estimate after the free remote assessment, and it is confirmed against your CT scan on the first day in Tirana — before treatment starts. The saving is largest exactly where UK private pricing is heaviest, which is full-arch and full mouth work.

The published starting prices for each treatment are set out on our All-on-4 cost page — treat them as a starting point, not as your quote.

Why can't I have this on the NHS?

Two separate issues get mixed together. Access — finding an NHS dentist taking new patients and then waiting for an appointment. And scope — implant-based rehabilitation is generally not provided on the NHS except in specific clinical circumstances, so for most people the realistic NHS route for a failing mouth is extractions and dentures. Those are legitimate treatments; they are not the same treatment as a fixed arch on implants.

How do I know the clinic is safe? In the UK I'd check the CQC and the GDC.

Ask the same question here and demand the same paperwork. Brianza Dent is accredited by QK-CSA, the National Centre for Quality, Safety and Accreditation of Health Institutions in Albania, and is the only dental clinic in the country to hold that accreditation. It is separately licensed as a Day Hospital — able to admit you for a procedure, treat you under sedation or general anaesthesia with an anaesthesiologist present, and monitor your recovery on site. There is also a biochemical laboratory in the building. Ask us for the documentation before you send anything — we would rather you checked.

I've been told at home there isn't enough bone for implants. Is that the end of it?

No — that sentence describes your anatomy today, not a permanent verdict, and it is the single most common reason patients arrive here having been refused elsewhere. Bone can be rebuilt or bypassed: guided bone regeneration, sinus lift in the upper jaw, sandwich osteotomy of the atrophic posterior mandible, and angled implant placement that uses the bone that remains — which is the principle All-on-4 is built on.

What we cannot tell you from a website is whether that applies to you. Send the X-ray the other clinic took, and you will get a straight answer, including "not suitable" if that is the answer.

Will I leave with teeth, or go home with nothing in my mouth?

Where your case allows immediate loading, a temporary fixed arch is fitted in the same visit and you fly home with teeth. Whether it allows it depends on bone quality and on how stable the implants are at the moment they are placed, which is why it is confirmed from your CT data at planning and at surgery — and not promised in advance by anyone who has not seen your scan.

How many trips do I need, and how long is each?

Typically two: one for surgery, and a shorter one for the definitive prosthesis after healing. Between them there is a healing period of roughly three to six months, depending on bone quality, the surgery performed, whether grafting was needed and how your own site heals. That interval is biological — no clinic anywhere can shorten it. Anyone advertising a complete full mouth rebuild finished in three days is describing a schedule, not a protocol.

How do I get there, and do I need a visa?

Tirana International Airport is served by direct flights from London and other UK airports, at around three hours' flying time. British passport holders do not currently need a visa for short visits to Albania, but check the FCDO's Albania travel advice before booking, as requirements can change. Albania is one hour ahead of the UK, and everything clinical is handled in English. You are met at the airport and brought to the clinic. Do arrange travel insurance that covers a planned medical procedure abroad — a standard holiday policy usually will not.

I'm terrified of the dentist. That's half the reason my teeth are in this state.

That is a very common history among full-arch patients, and it is one of the reasons treatment on this scale is done in a Day Hospital rather than a dental surgery. Sedation and general anaesthesia are available with an anaesthesiologist present, so a long surgical session can be done in one sitting, and your recovery is monitored on site afterwards. Tell us at the first contact — it changes how your case is planned, not just how it feels on the day.

What happens if something goes wrong once I'm back in the UK?

You go home with a written aftercare protocol, your clinical records and a direct contact for the team, so the first step is always to call the clinic — most post-operative questions are resolved that way. For anything urgent and local, you should be seen by a UK dentist, and your records exist precisely so that a dentist here can act on them. Revision work covered by your warranty is carried out in Tirana. Ask for the warranty terms in writing before you commit: what is covered, for how long, and who pays for return travel.

What guarantee do I get on the implants and the bridge?

You get written warranty terms specific to your treatment, covering the implants and the prosthetic work separately, because they are different components with different lifespans. What no honest clinic anywhere can give you is a guarantee of a clinical outcome: results depend on your anatomy, bone, gum health, general health, medication, smoking and how the work is maintained. Be careful of anyone promising more than that.

Do you treat children, or do fillings and check-ups?

This site is for major and total work: All-on-4 and All-on-6, multiple implants, full mouth rehabilitation and total reconstruction. Minor treatment is done here only where it forms part of a reconstruction plan. If you are looking for routine dentistry or children's care, that belongs with a dentist near home — travelling for it makes no sense for anyone.

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