a procedureDental veneers

also: porcelain veneer · composite veneer · laminate veneer · smile makeover

Sold by the tooth and bought by the set. A price list says one veneer; a patient means eight, ten or twenty, and the trade calls that a smile makeover.

A thin facing is bonded to the front of a tooth, usually after some enamel is removed. Composite versions are shaped in the chair in one visit; porcelain and glass-ceramic ones are made in a laboratory and fitted at a second appointment. Cosmetic in most jurisdictions, which is why no state schedule read for this record pays for them.

How long it takes

The numbers behind this

	Days
In hospital	0.00
Before a flight	—
Back to ordinary use	—

Root. veneer: from German furnieren, to furnish or overlay, by way of French fournir — a thin facing laid over something plainer, borrowed from cabinetmaking into dentistry in the twentieth century. Laminate is Latin lamina, a thin plate.
Composite veneers are built up on the tooth in the chair; porcelain and lithium disilicate veneers are made in a laboratory and bonded on. The two words sit in the same column of a price list at a third of the price apart. Trade practice

The story Cited · bidc-fees

Veneers are the dental procedure that travels as a set, and the price lists know it.

Bangkok International Dental Center prices a porcelain e.max veneer at 17,000 baht for one to five teeth and 16,000 for six or more, against a struck-through 19,000 — the discount arriving exactly at the sixth tooth. Composite veneers on the same page run 6,000 to 7,000 baht, and its Exaclear composite drops from 8,000 to 7,000 at the same threshold. Super-thin veneers are 18,000 to 19,000.

Medicare Dental Clinic in Budapest prints the ceramic veneer as €227 of treatment plus €152 of laboratory work, and the full porcelain veneer at €237 plus €157 — the same two-line habit it applies to crowns, and within a few euro of its own crown prices.

Sani Dental Group in Los Algodones lists a porcelain veneer at $450 and a zirconia veneer at $490, each against a US comparison column — $1,100 and $1,500 — of the clinic's own making.

Index Medica in Kraków lists a porcelain veneer at £549 against what it calls an average UK price of £1,125, and a ceramic veneer at €575 against €1,249 for Ireland.

Inference — multiply by the set. Ten upper teeth at the Bangkok six-or-more rate is 160,000 baht; ten in Budapest is €3,940 with the laboratory fees; ten in Los Algodones is $4,500. The per-tooth figure is the only one any of these pages publishes, and it is not the figure anyone pays.

How it works Trade practice

Shade taken, enamel reduced by a fraction of a millimetre, impressions or scans sent to a laboratory, temporaries fitted, and the set bonded on at a second visit — which for a foreign patient means either a stay of several days or a second flight. Composite veneers avoid the laboratory and the wait, and are quoted at a third to a quarter of the porcelain price on the pages read for this record.

No state schedule read here pays for any of it. The English NHS charge bands make no provision for cosmetic veneers, and the Australian schedule that pays for a cataract lens explicitly excludes surgery to correct appearance. Veneers are an out-of-pocket purchase wherever they are bought.

Today Cited

As of 17 September 2026 a single veneer is published at 6,000 to 19,000 baht in Bangkok depending on material and count, €379 to €394 including laboratory fee in Budapest, $450 to $490 in Los Algodones and £549 in Kraków. Every one of those prices is for one tooth.

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$

5 published prices for this procedure, across 4 countries.

The 5 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
Thailand	list	180	6,000–19,000 THB	2026-09-17	page
Hungary	list	437	379–394 EUR	2026-09-17	page
Mexico	list	450	450 USD	2026-09-16	page
Mexico	list	450	450–490 USD	2026-09-17	page
Poland	list	740	549 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.

6,000–19,000 THB ≈ US$180–571

list · Bangkok · Thailand · for Dental veneers

Includes.

one veneer, by material: composite 6,000 to 7,000; Exaclear composite 8,000 for one to five teeth and 7,000 for six or more; porcelain e.max 17,000 and 16,000 on the same scale; super-thin 18,000 to 19,000

Excludes.

x-rays, medications, sterilisation, nursing fees and clinic service fees, charged separately
every tooth after the first

Published price dated 2026-09-17 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · the e.max and Exaclear rows are printed against struck-through figures of 19,000 and 10,000, and both drop at the sixth tooth — the page is written for patients buying a set. Package rates stated applicable till 30 September 2026.

379–394 EUR ≈ US$437–455

list · Budapest · Hungary · for Dental veneers

Includes.

ceramic (zirconium) veneer at €227 treatment plus €152 fabrication; full porcelain veneer at €237 plus €157

Excludes.

nothing stated beyond the treatment-and-laboratory split

Published price dated 2026-09-17 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · within a few euro of the same clinic's crown prices, which is what a veneer is: the same laboratory, less tooth removed.

450–490 USD ≈ US$450–490

list · Los Algodones · Mexico · for Dental veneers

Includes.

one porcelain veneer at $450 or one zirconia veneer at $490

Excludes.

every tooth after the first

Published price dated 2026-09-17 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · MXN $9,000 and $9,800 printed beside the dollar figures, with a US comparison column of $1,100 and $1,500 that carries no source. The page states all prices are a base or starting price.

549 GBP ≈ US$740

list · Kraków · Poland · for Dental veneers

Includes.

one porcelain veneer; examination, x-rays and local anaesthetic listed as free

Excludes.

every tooth after the first

Published price dated 2026-09-17 · dollars at the rate of Wed, 16 Sep 2026 · the page it was read from · £549 against a column the clinic labels average UK price at £1,125; the euro table gives €575 against an Irish comparison of €1,249. 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	Clinic appointments, not an admission. The interval between preparation and fitting — the figure that decides whether a set of veneers is one trip or two — is stated on none of the four price pages read for this record. (2026-09-17) · source
links	BIDC dental fees · Sani Dental Group price list
confidence	high · updated 2026-09-17

Not to be confused with

Dental crown — A veneer faces the front of the tooth; a crown wraps all of it. Price lists put them in adjacent rows at similar figures, and the difference is how much tooth is left underneath.

What it connects to

a procedureDental crownThe full cover, at much the same laboratory price and with far more tooth cut away.and of this page it says: The thinner cousin, covering the front of a tooth rather than the whole of it.a procedureFull mouth restorationWhat a set of these becomes when the back teeth are included.and of this page it says: The cosmetic half of the same quotation, when the back teeth are sound.a procedureDental implantThe other half of a dental travel bill, and the one that needs months rather than days.a countryThailandWhere the veneer price drops at the sixth tooth.a countryHungaryWhere the veneer and the crown are priced within a few euro of each other.a countryMexicoWhere the veneer is quoted against a US comparison the clinic supplies.a countryPolandWhere the comparison column is labelled average UK price.a clusterBudapestThe city whose clinics built the European dental trade on work like this.a ruleInsurance exclusions for treatment abroadThe reason no payer schedule read for this page carries a line for veneers.a stepGetting a quoteThe step where one tooth becomes ten and the quote multiplies.a riskRevision at homeWho rebonds a veneer that debonds after the flight, and at whose price.

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)
MBS item 42702 — lens extraction and insertion of intraocular lens — Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing · link (read 2026-09-17)

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