From the first X-ray you send us to the final crown: what happens on each visit to Tirana, how long healing takes at home, and what can add time to your plan.
How long do dental implants take? At Elonix Dental Clinic in Tirana, an implant takes two trips. The first visit lasts 3 to 5 days: CBCT scan, placement and a temporary tooth. Then come 3 to 6 months of healing at home, while the bone grows onto the implant. The second visit lasts 5 to 7 days: abutment and final crown. A complete tooth costs €500 to €700 at entry tier, and the work carries a written 5-year warranty.
The appointments for an implant add up to days. What takes months is the part in the middle, when your jawbone attaches itself to the implant, and no clinic can do that for you. For a patient travelling to us, that means two short stays in Tirana with a long, ordinary stretch at home in between.
| Stage | Where you are | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Before travel: you send an X-ray or photos, we send a free written quote and plan | At home | No travel needed |
| First visit: CBCT scan, implant placement, temporary tooth | Tirana | 3 to 5 days |
| Healing: the bone grows onto the implant (osseointegration) | At home | 3 to 6 months |
| Second visit: abutment and final crown | Tirana | 5 to 7 days |
Timings for a standard implant case at Elonix. Bone grafting, a sinus lift or extractions can change the sequence: your written plan states the timing for your case.
Add the two visits together and you spend 3 to 5 days plus 5 to 7 days in Tirana: between 8 and 12 days in total, split across two trips.
The timeline starts before you book anything. You send us a recent X-ray, or photos of your teeth if you have no X-ray yet, through the quote form on this page or by WhatsApp on +355 69 691 1118. We reply with a free written quote and a treatment plan: which teeth, how many implants, which implant tier, and whether the X-ray suggests that grafting may be needed.
The first visit then follows this sequence:
We do not publish a fixed day-by-day schedule, because the order of appointments depends on how many implants you are having and on what the scan shows: your written plan sets it out.
When an implant is first placed it is held mechanically, the way a screw is held in wood. That is enough to keep it still, and not enough to chew on for years. Over the following months the bone does something wood never does: it grows onto the surface of the implant and locks to it. Dentists call this osseointegration, and it is the reason an implant can carry a crown the way a natural root does.
The dental implant healing stages run roughly like this. In the first days the gum closes around the site and the area settles. Over the following weeks the body lays down new bone against the implant surface. In the months after that, this young bone matures and hardens until the implant is firmly fixed.
How long does osseointegration take? We plan for 3 to 6 months, and the wait cannot be shortened. Bone grows at its own biological pace, and neither a more expensive implant nor a more determined patient changes that. If the final crown, with full chewing force on it, is fitted before the bone has attached, the implant can be disturbed while it is still settling, and a disturbed implant may not fix at all.
Where you fall within the 3 to 6 months depends on your case. Bone in the upper jaw is generally softer than in the lower jaw, so upper implants often sit towards the longer end, and a grafted site usually needs more time. Your plan gives the healing period for your implants. For more of the biology, see our article on how osseointegration works.
You do not go home with a gap in a visible place. If the implant is in a part of the mouth that shows when you talk or smile, the plan includes a temporary tooth for the healing months. Its job is appearance and everyday comfort, not heavy chewing: the implant underneath is still attaching to the bone, so hard and chewy food should stay away from that side.
The temporary tooth and its cost are itemised on your written plan, as a separate line from the implant and the crown, so you know about it before you travel. Our article on temporary teeth during treatment covers the options.
The second visit turns a healed implant into a tooth. The sequence is:
If the tooth is still in place, broken or failing, removal and implant do not always mean two separate waits. In some cases the implant can be placed at the same visit as the extraction, directly into the socket the root has just left. In other cases the socket has to heal first. The CBCT scan decides: it shows whether there is enough sound bone around the socket to hold an implant steady. Either way, the final crown is still fitted after healing. Placing the implant at the same visit as the extraction can save you a stage. It does not remove the months in which the bone attaches.
When a whole arch of teeth is being replaced, the calendar changes shape. With All-on-4 a fixed bridge is carried on four implants, and you do not wait months for your first set of fixed teeth.
All-on-4 costs €5,000 to €7,000 per arch, and the All-on-4 cost guide sets out what that covers.
Book the first trip once you have your written quote and plan. Book the second only after the first visit is done and healing is confirmed: the healing period on your plan tells you roughly when to expect the return. We confirm the dates of each visit in writing. On both trips we collect you at the airport and help with hotel check-in. For the journey home after surgery, read our note on flying after dental surgery.
A complete single tooth, fixture plus zirconia crown, costs €500 to €700 with our entry-tier implant. With the two branded systems the fixture is €700 for Nobel Biocare and €800 for Straumann BLT, which makes the complete tooth €900 to €1,000 or €1,000 to €1,100. The abutment, the CBCT scan, any bone grafting and the temporary tooth are itemised on your written plan. We plan the same two-trip pattern for all three tiers. Line-by-line prices and worked examples are in the dental implant cost guide, and the written quote after the scan is the real figure.
The implant and the crown carry our written 5-year warranty. We are one fixed clinic in Tirana, placing more than 8,000 implants a year, so the clinic that places your implant on the first trip is the one that finishes it on the second and stands behind it afterwards.
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