How much does a dental implant cost in Portugal?
In Switzerland, the LAMal, the compulsory basic health insurance, does not cover dental care in practice: an implant is paid for in full by the person treated. Published Swiss sources put a complete implant — implant, abutment and crown — at between 3 000 and 5 000 CHF per tooth. On the Portuguese side, the Instituto AreLuna states a single implant from 600 €. That is a starting point, not an invoice: what a case will cost depends on a prior individual assessment and diagnosis, carried out at a consultation with a 3D X-ray.
In Switzerland, the invoice has no second reader
The first thing to put on the table is not the Portuguese price. It is the Swiss price, and above all the question of who pays it. Basic insurance does not cover dental care in practice: implants, crowns and prostheses stay with the patient. There is therefore no insurer to call, no percentage to wait for, no official tariff on which a third party would calculate anything.
That is what makes the comparison so direct in French-speaking Switzerland, and so blunt. Published Swiss sources put a complete implant — implant, abutment and crown — at between 3 000 and 5 000 CHF per tooth. That amount is whole: what is written on the quote is what leaves the account. As with any treatment, what a particular case will cost depends on a prior individual assessment and diagnosis.
Private complementary insurance may exist, and its terms change from one contract to the next. This page says nothing about it: what a contract covers is for the insurer to state, document in hand, before any decision.
In Portugal, a starting point and an examination
At the Instituto AreLuna, a single implant starts from 600 €. The words ‘starts from’ are not a figure of speech: the amount for a case depends on a prior individual assessment and diagnosis, which is why the page says ‘starts from’ and not ‘costs’.
A single implant comes down to two parts: a titanium screw anchored in the jawbone, and a crown placed on top. The work needed to get there changes with the bone that remains, with the time since the tooth was lost, and with whatever needs treating around it.
The closed quote comes out of the diagnostic consultation, once the 3D X-ray has been taken — the examination known as CBCT, which shows the bone in volume rather than as a shadow. Before that examination, nobody can announce a final amount without guessing. Nothing written here takes the place of that examination.
Two currencies, and no conversion
This page does not convert francs into euros, and that is deliberate. A rate applied by hand would produce a figure that nobody has published. The two references therefore stay side by side, each in its own currency: between 3 000 and 5 000 CHF per tooth according to Swiss sources, and a Portuguese starting point of 600 €. Both depend on a prior individual assessment and diagnosis.
On one tooth, the gap shows. On three or four, it stops being a line in the household budget. And since nothing comes back from anywhere, the gap stays clean on both sides: no reimbursement reduces it here, and none reduces it there.
Before deciding, the rest still has to be added up: the flight from Geneva, the days set aside, the accommodation. That sum, rather than a catalogue price, is what goes next to the quote already received in Switzerland. The diagnostic consultation is booked by telephone, on +351 220 430 090; dental care is provided at the establishment at Rua de Júlio Dinis, 194, 4050-327 Porto.
Frequently asked questions
Is the starting point the final amount?
No. The figure of 600 € is the starting point stated by the Instituto AreLuna for a single implant. The definitive amount depends on a prior individual assessment and diagnosis, and it is written down only once the consultation with a 3D X-ray has taken place. A practice that closes a figure before that examination is closing a figure it has no way of knowing.
Is the crown included in this amount?
The Instituto AreLuna describes the treatment as a titanium implant with a zirconia crown. It is still the line to have confirmed in writing, because it is the one that varies most from one practice to another. That line, too, hangs on a prior individual assessment and diagnosis.
Does basic insurance pay for part of it?
The LAMal, Switzerland's compulsory basic health insurance, does not cover dental care in practice: implants, crowns and prostheses stay with the patient, unless a specific complementary insurance applies. What a complementary contract covers is checked with the insurer, not on this page.