Editorial Standards: How We Write and Check
Our editorial standards are simple to state and hard to keep: every factual claim should trace to a source you can open, every number should say what was measured, and anything we could not verify is left out or described as unknown. This page explains how that works in practice, and where it stops.
What we are trying to do
This is an information site for UK readers considering, or recovering from, dental treatment in Turkey. We aim to give you the facts that matter before you commit to something that cannot be undone, in plain English, and without steering you towards or away from any clinic or country. We are not a dental clinic and nothing here is personal medical advice; our medical disclaimer covers that in full.
Who writes and checks the pages
Every page is written and fact-checked by the BestDentalTurkey.clinic editorial team and is attributed to the team as an organisation. That is deliberate: we do not show individual bylines, photographs or credentials, and we do not invent them. The line you see on guides reads “Written and fact-checked by the editorial team”. It does not mean “clinically reviewed”. At present no General Dental Council (GDC) registered dentist or other clinician reviews our pages, and we say so on the reviewers page. More about who runs the site is on our about page.
That is a real limit. National Health Service (NHS) England’s own standard for creating health content expects clinical approval of health information, and we do not have it. The practical consequence is that we keep to what our sources say, avoid giving advice about individual treatment, and send you to a dentist who has examined you for anything that depends on your own teeth.
Which sources we use
We cite only from a short list of source types, and we do not cite outside it. Each page carries no more than six references, and each reference is linked from the sentence it supports, so you can open it and check. Our Turkey teeth guide is an example of the standard in practice.
| Source type | Examples | What we use it for |
|---|---|---|
| NHS and UK government | nhs.uk, gov.uk, GOV.WALES, gov.scot, nidirect, legislation.gov.uk | What the NHS provides, charges, urgent routes, UK law and consumer rights |
| UK dental and health bodies | General Dental Council (GDC), British Dental Association (BDA), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Care Quality Commission (CQC), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) | Standards for dentists, the register, complaints routes, guidance on finance and care |
| Turkish official sources | Ministry of Health, Turkish Dental Association, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey | How dentists and providers are authorised and listed in Turkey; the dentists’ guide fee tariff; exchange rates |
| Published research | Peer-reviewed studies and reviews indexed on PubMed, Cochrane reviews | Survival rates, complication rates and how much tooth is removed |
| Consumer advice | Citizens Advice, MoneyHelper | Used sparingly, and only where no official source covers the point |
We do not cite clinic or dentist websites as evidence, nor review platforms, commercial health-information sites or Wikipedia. A clinic’s own page can tell you what that clinic says about itself, which is not the same as evidence, so it is not a source for any clinical claim here. The one use we make of such pages is our price survey, described below, which records the prices they advertise without naming or linking them. Where we link to another site, it is as a source for a specific statement and never as a recommendation.
How we treat numbers
A number appears on this site only if it comes from a source we link to. When we use one we say what was measured, in whom, and how certain the authors were, because a figure from a laboratory model is not a figure from patients, and a pooled result from low-certainty studies is not a promise. When the evidence is thin, we say that. When we could not find a reliable figure, for example for how long work done in Turkey lasts, we say we did not find one rather than estimate.
Money is handled more strictly still. The pound sign appears only on the cost section, every figure there is held in one place so it can be checked and updated together, and each shows the date it was last checked against its source. The figures in the cost section come from three places: official NHS and government pages, the British Dental Association survey of dentists (for repair costs), and our own survey of advertised prices. They are held in a single data file, and each carries a “checked” date. No page outside the cost section quotes a price.
How we gather prices. We collected one advertised starting price per clinic or practice from their own websites in October 2026, excluded pages dated before 2025, aggregator sites and offers that did not match the treatment, and report the median and the middle half of prices. It is a snapshot, not a quote; we will repeat it at least once a year. For the UK, the basis is the General Dental Council’s guidance on dental costs, which says practices must give clear information on their prices on their website, that the GDC does not set prices, and that prices vary between practices. For Turkey, we show the advertised prices beside an official reference, the Turkish Dental Association’s 2026 guide tariff for dentists in Turkey, which is a domestic guide fee list, not a health-tourism package price. Prices advertised in euros, dollars or lira are converted to pounds at the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey’s indicative exchange rates, and we give the date of the rate used. No clinic or practice in the survey is named, linked or ranked.
Dates, reviews and updates
“Last reviewed” on a guide is the date an editor last checked the page against its sources. It is not the date of a clinical review. We aim to revisit price information at least once a year, and NHS band charges every year, usually in April when the new charges take effect (and sooner if the published charges change). We aim to revisit clinical content when guidance or the published evidence changes, or when a reader points out a problem. These are aims, not guarantees, which is why the date on each page matters more than any promise on this one.
Corrections
If you think something on the site is wrong, out of date or unclear, tell us at info@bestdentalturkey.clinic. Please include the page address and, if you can, the source that says otherwise. We will check your point against the sources, and if you are right we will correct the page. For a substantive change we will update the “Last reviewed” date; typing and formatting fixes we may make without a note. More ways to reach us, and what we cannot help with, are on the contact page.
What “independent” means here
We use the word to mean that this site is not a clinic and that no page on it sells treatment, takes bookings, collects enquiries for a provider or ranks clinics or dentists. The site is paid for by its owner, and no clinic, dentist, advertiser or affiliate pays us; see how we make money.
What we do not publish
- Rankings, scores or league tables of clinics or dentists, or the names of individual clinics or dentists as recommendations.
- Patient photographs or before-and-after galleries.
- Reviews or testimonials, or anything presented as a patient story that we cannot source.
- Promises of results, or any suggestion that a treatment carries no risk.
- Celebrity content.
- Advice on acute dental pain. For that, the routes are your own dentist, NHS 111, and 999 for emergency signs such as difficulty breathing, speaking or swallowing.
We also avoid blaming any country. Qualified dentists work in Turkey, and some people need crowns or implants for good clinical reasons. The aim is to help you tell the difference between treatment that is needed and treatment that is sold.
Last updated October 2026.