a procedureDental crown

also: cap · porcelain fused to metal crown · zirconia crown · e.max crown

Patients say cap. Price lists say crown and then name a material, because the material is the price.

A tooth is reduced to a stump, an impression or scan is taken, a laboratory makes a cover in metal, porcelain-fused-to-metal, lithium disilicate or zirconia, and it is cemented or screwed on. Two visits usually, or one where the clinic mills the crown on site. It is the commonest single line on a dental travel bill because almost every other treatment ends with one.

How long it takes

The numbers behind this

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Root. crown: Latin corona, a wreath or circlet, used in anatomy for the part of a tooth above the gum long before it named the thing fitted over it. Zirconia is from zircon, the mineral, by way of Persian zargun, gold-coloured; e.max is a brand of lithium disilicate glass-ceramic.
A crown fitted to a natural tooth and a crown fitted to an implant are the same object with different prices; the implant crown usually carries the abutment's price beside it. Trade practice

The story Cited · bidc-fees

Four price lists, four ways of writing the same tooth.

Bangkok International Dental Center runs by material: porcelain fused to non-precious alloy 13,000 baht, to palladium 20,000, to gold 25,000, all-ceramic e.max 19,500 for one to five teeth and 18,500 for six or more, zirconia 21,000 and 20,000 on the same sliding scale, a one-day all-ceramic crown 25,000. The discount for the sixth tooth is the page telling a reader what kind of patient it is written for.

Medicare Dental Clinic in Budapest prints two numbers per crown and means their sum: porcelain fused to metal €202 plus €134 of laboratory fee, zirconia €226 plus €152, full porcelain €237 plus €157.

Sani Dental Group in Los Algodones runs from an all-metal crown at $120 to porcelain-fused-to-gold at $600, with a "US COST" column beside each — $400 against the metal crown, $1,700 against the gold — which is the seller's own comparison and names no source.

Index Medica in Kraków does the same thing in the opposite direction, printing what it calls an average UK price beside its own: £900 against its £355 for a metal-based porcelain crown, £1,200 against its £429 for full-ceramic zirconia.

Inference — three of the four pages sell the crown against a number from the patient's home country that the clinic itself supplies. The one state tariff read for this record — the English NHS band 3 charge of £332.10, which covers a crown along with dentures, bridges and orthodontics — is the only figure on this page whose author is not also the seller.

How it works Cited · nhs-dental-charges

Priced by material first and by count second. Where a clinic prices implants, the implant crown appears as its own line: 25,000 baht in Bangkok on every implant row, $720 in Los Algodones including the abutment. Where a clinic prices laboratory work separately, as Budapest does, the crown's real price is two lines added together.

In England the patient's share is not a price at all but a band: a flat £332.10 for band 3 treatment, one charge however many crowns the course contains, with the rest met by the health service. A private crown in the same country is quoted per tooth and is not on that scale.

Today Cited

As of 17 September 2026 a single crown is published at 13,000 to 25,000 baht in Bangkok, €336 to €394 including laboratory fee in Budapest, $120 to $600 in Los Algodones and £355 to £429 in Kraków, against an English NHS band 3 patient charge of £332.10 for a course of treatment that may contain several.

Notes

This page describes a dental procedure and the prices published for it. It is not dental advice.

What it costs where anyone publishes a price

a provider's package pricea state tariff or what a payer refundsa list price, an estimate or an advertised rangelogarithmic scale, US$

6 published prices for this procedure, across 5 countries.

The 6 prices behind this chart

Dollar figures are the published price put through one dated rate table; the published currency and date are in the next columns.

Country	Kind	US$	As published	Dated	Source
Mexico	list	120	120–600 USD	2026-09-17	page
Mexico	list	490	490 USD	2026-09-16	page
Thailand	list	390	13,000–25,000 THB	2026-09-17	page
Hungary	list	436	378 EUR	2026-09-17	page
United Kingdom	tariff	448	332 GBP	2026-09-17	page
Poland	list	478	355–429 GBP	2026-09-17	page

Every price this directory has read, for every procedure, sits together on the prices page.

Published prices Cited

Each is a number read off a page on the date named, in the currency the provider bills in. Dollars are that number through one dated rate table.

120–600 USD ≈ US$120–600

list · Los Algodones · Mexico · for Dental crown

Includes.

the crown, by material

Excludes.

the implant or abutment where the crown sits on one — the implant crown including abutment is its own line at $720

Published price dated 2026-09-17 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · all-metal $120, porcelain fused to metal $230, e.max $395, zirconia $490, porcelain fused to gold $600, temporary crown $30, each with a peso figure beside it. The page prints a US comparison column — $400, $1,250, $1,500, $1,600, $1,700 — that carries no source, and states that all prices are a base or starting price.

13,000–25,000 THB ≈ US$390–751

list · Bangkok · Thailand · for Dental crown

Includes.

the crown itself, by material

Excludes.

x-rays, medications, sterilisation, nursing fees and clinic service fees, charged separately
sterilisation at 150 to 250 baht per visit
root canal treatment where the tooth needs it first

Published price dated 2026-09-17 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · the range runs porcelain fused to non-precious alloy 13,000, palladium 20,000, gold 25,000, e.max 19,500 for one to five teeth and 18,500 for six or more, zirconia 21,000 and 20,000, one-day all-ceramic 25,000. Several rows are printed against struck-through figures of 22,000. Package rates stated applicable till 30 September 2026.

378 EUR ≈ US$436

list · Budapest · Hungary · for Dental crown

Includes.

zirconia crown: €226 treatment plus €152 fabrication

Excludes.

nothing stated beyond the split; the post and core, if the tooth needs one, is a separate line

Published price dated 2026-09-17 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · porcelain fused to metal is €202 plus €134 for €336, full porcelain €237 plus €157 for €394. The clinic's note above the table states that many treatments carry both a treatment price and a separate fabrication or laboratory fee.

332 GBP ≈ US$448

tariff · United Kingdom · United Kingdom · for Dental crown

Includes.

band 3: a crown, and everything in bands 1 and 2 in the same course of treatment
dentures, bridges and orthodontic treatment fall in the same band

Excludes.

private treatment
cosmetic work the service does not provide

Published price dated 2026-09-17 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · the patient's charge in England, not the cost of the work: one band 3 charge of £332.10 covers a course of treatment however many crowns it contains, against £27.90 for band 1 and £76.60 for band 2. The page states it was last reviewed on 13 March 2025 and does not state when the amounts took effect.

355–429 GBP ≈ US$478–578

list · Kraków · Poland · for Dental crown

Includes.

the crown; the page lists examination, x-rays and local anaesthetic as free

Excludes.

nothing stated for the crown itself

Published price dated 2026-09-17 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · metal-based porcelain £355 against a column the clinic labels average UK price at £900; full-ceramic zirconoxide £429 against £1,200. The euro table gives €389 and €469 against Irish comparisons of €1,110 and €1,430. A deposit of 80% of each stage is due on signing the treatment plan.

1 more published prices for this procedure sit on other records — all of them together are on the prices page.

The particulars

family	dental
setting	day-case
anaesthesia	local
region	Everywhere
stay days	0
about those numbers	A clinic appointment, not an admission. The number a travelling patient needs — how many days between preparation and fitting — is stated on none of the four price pages read for this record, though one of them sells a crown milled in a single day. (2026-09-17) · source
links	NHS dental charges — bands 1, 2 and 3 · BIDC dental fees
confidence	high · updated 2026-09-17

Not to be confused with

Dental veneers — A crown covers the whole tooth and needs most of it cut away; a veneer covers the front face only.

What it connects to

a procedureDental implantThe root this crown is often screwed to, and the line it is billed apart from.and of this page it says: The part that goes on top, billed separately on every price list read for this page.a procedureRoot canal treatmentWhat usually comes first, on the same bill and the same trip.and of this page it says: What the treated tooth usually needs next, on the same list and at several times the price.a procedureDental veneersThe thinner cousin, covering the front of a tooth rather than the whole of it.and of this page it says: The full cover, at much the same laboratory price and with far more tooth cut away.a procedureFull mouth restorationThe job that counts these in tens.and of this page it says: The unit the surviving teeth are covered in.a countryThailandWhere the price falls when the sixth tooth is crowned.a countryHungaryWhere the laboratory fee is a line of its own beside every crown.a countryPolandWhere the clinic prints an average UK price beside its own.a countryUnited KingdomThe source market whose band 3 charge of £332.10 is the number these lists are written against.a clusterBudapestThe city that made dental travel a European industry.a clusterLos AlgodonesThe border town where a crown is quoted against a US figure the clinic supplies itself.and of this page it says: Priced by material on the open lists in the windows.a stepGetting a quoteThe step where a crown quote turns out to exclude the laboratory fee.a riskRevision at homeWho recements a crown that comes off at home, and what they charge.

Pages that point here

a cluster · on this pageNuevo ProgresoOrdinary restorative work, done at a fraction of the price across the river.a cluster · on this pageSopronThe unit most of this town's traffic is actually booked for.a procedure · on this pageAll-on-4The single-tooth version of the same laboratory work, and the line that shows how each clinic splits a bill.

Sources

Dental Fees — standardised treatment fees — Bangkok International Dental Center · link (read 2026-09-16)
Treatment Prices — Medicare Dental Clinic, Budapest · link (read 2026-09-16)
Dental Price List in Mexico — Sani Dental Group, Los Algodones · link (read 2026-09-16)
Prices — dental treatment in Kraków — Index Medica, Kraków · link (read 2026-09-16)
Understanding NHS dental charges — bands 1, 2 and 3 — NHS (England) · link (read 2026-09-16)

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