More and more Romanians are losing their teeth early, from 40, and end up paying tens of thousands of euros for dental implants and restoring the tooth.
The complete rehabilitation of the tooth costs as much as 5 years of work on the minimum wage. Photo shutterstock
From year to year, the number of Romanians who lose their teeth is increasing, paying tens of thousands of euros to have a complete tooth again, instead of prevention treatment that is around 100 euros annually.
Referred to the minimum wage on the economy, 2,574 net lei in 2025, Romanians can pay up to 60 minimum wages for the total rehabilitation of the tooth. Some of the patients resort to bank loans to pay for dental implants.
A dental implant costs around 5,000 lei, but the costs up according to the number of dental implants and the complexity of the case. Thus, a complete rehabilitation of the tooth, with implants on the two arches, reaches tens of thousands of euros.
“Romanians could pay on average 100 euros for prevention, but they arrive at the dentist late, when they have already lost some of their teeth. Thus, they spend up to 30,000 euros to repair their integral tooth. They end up spending so much because they postpone the dentist for prevention and to solve the problems for a year or to a year. dental.
Most Romanians come to the dentist when they can no longer handle pain or start to lose teeth. There are patients who have been left without teeth for 40 years, the age decreasing in recent years. Sometimes there are cases around 35 years, even 30 years. Romanians begin to lose their permanent teeth increasingly. ”explained for “truth“Dr. Narcisa Calotă, dentist and founder of the clinical CEC Dental Clinic.
Romanians who arrive too late at the dentist risk not being able to save their teeth anymore
The costs of a dental implant start from 1,000 euros and reach almost 2,000 euros in more complex cases with additional surgery. For a more complex rehabilitation of the tooth the costs vary between 10,000 euros and 30,000 euros, depending on the number of implants and interventions until the complete treatment.
“For example, in many cases it is necessary to add bone or additional interventions in the maxillary sinuses and then the treatment plan undergoes changes in cost. In general, Romanians resort to dental implant either when they lose a front tooth, being visible its lack, or when they get more than three teeth. increased by 10%”explains the dentist.
The most complex and expensive procedures, which end up costing as much as a studio in some cases, are the implants in both jaws through ficked teeth and the complete rehabilitation of both maxillary with the dental facets and dental crowns that render the patient, the mastication function that is often lost with the loss. The orthodontic treatments for solving some dental abnormalities that, the dental and periodontal aesthetics performed through the laser are also among the most expensive dental interventions.
Romanians who arrive too late at the dentist risk not being able to save their teeth. Therefore, prevention plays an essential role, but many Romanians still do not give it proper importance to make routine checks help them to detect conditions that, in early stages, have a better prognosis and more effective treatment options.
“Many patients say ‘if it does not hurt me, I do not go to the dentist’, but, for example, a trivial caries, which is observed by the patient, may be in an advanced stage of tooth degradation. And in this case it will not be just about the punctual treatment of caries, but more complex procedures, maybe even removing the tooth, putting a dental pivot and later a dental crown that can extend the life of a long -term tooth. Prevention not only is simpler and less expensive than treatment, but can make the difference in the evolution of a condition. We make constant efforts to inform patients and encourage them to come to periodic checks, just to identify any health problem as possible“, Said Narcisa Calotă for”The truth ”.
Dental tourism: Romanians do not risk putting their teeth in small cities
Romanians who have to put on dental implants prefer to go to big cities, which has led to the increase of internal dental tourism.
Romanians in Romania practice dental tourism within the country due to lack of confidence in the dental offices in the locality. More and more Romanians prefer, for complex procedures, such as dental implant, to go to larger clinics, with modern equipment and with doctors who have numerous successful cases. In this case we speak of Romanians from smaller cities or villages, who, instead of going to the dental office in the locality or in their city, arrive in dental clinics in Bucharest.
Thus, they arrive in Bucharest patients live in Calarasi, Giurgiu, Oltenița, Buzău, Focșani, Roman, Târgu Jiu, Craiova, Droberta Turnu Severin, and even from Chisinau.
And strangers come to Romania to put their teeth. But if for Romanians dental implants can be expensive, for foreigners they are much more accessible. Therefore, more and more people from the Western countries arrive in the dental clinics in Bucharest. From abroad, more and more patients, Romanian and foreign, for dental implants come, being 4-7 times cheaper than in countries such as France, Austria, UK, Germany, Italy.
Dental doctors recommend patients to go periodically to control, the prevention being the key to a healthy tooth and saving. But with many Romanians continue to prioritize largely only dental emergencies, they must keep in mind that, giving up prevention, emergency procedures, which are more complex, will be more expensive.
