Can't really add much to this, but the little there is might help.
My father lived out in Turkey for a number of years, until the politics got a bit,
problematic, shall we say.
Whilst living out there, he had all of his teeth replaced with implants.
Or rather, all of his teeth, so far as I can recall.
Obviously the cost was attractive. I think he paid about half the
UK rate for someone top notch. 15k very approximately. (sterling)
And according to him the facilities were excellent, as were the staff.
I'm not too familiar with the Turkish health system. From memory
there seems to be two tiers. One that is heavily subsidised, for the
locals and is not up to UK standards. And the other, which is private
and has excellent staff, often much better equipment than the NHS,
across a variety of specialties. I'm not talking knives and forks.
I'm referring to MRI scanners etc The kit that really matters.
So, he went in to the dentists on one day, to have the extractions
done and implants inserted and went back on another day not long
after to have the top part of the implants all attached to the lower
parts which had been fitted in his first visit.
I think he found the process quite arduous. Possibly because of his
age. Early 70's at that time. And because of the amount of implants
he was having fitted.
Afterwards, I believe he was very happy with his new teeth and
experienced no after procedure complications. Its been five years
now, at least and I've never heard him complain of any issues.
Certainly his teeth looked amazingly good. Especially with his
permanent Mediterranean tan. They looked entirely natural.
The thing about my father is. He'd have to be falling down,
almost dead. Before he'd complain about physical pain etc
He served in the Royal Signals squadron which worked alongside
the SAS and saw action in various parts of the world. Very little
of which he ever talked about. Suffice to say, he's a tough SoB.
So when he said he found the part of the procedure where the
implants themselves were screwed (?) into the jaw bones quite
arduous, that made me think twice about ever having this done
and made me start to take much better care of my own teeth!
But, this is very anecdotal obviously. Clearly, others might've had
a much better experience and a lot might depend on the amount
of implants you have done. My father is the kind of guy to say,
oh to h@ll with it, just do the lot, while you're in there. I suspect he
regretted that slightly gung-ho attitude