Dental care in Barcelona, done right −65%

"Four implants over two trips with Dr. Aymerich. On the surgery day I was in and out in ninety minutes and he rang me at the hotel that evening to check on me. The underground parking meant we could drive down from Freiburg and make a week of it instead of flying."

"Aligners with Dr. Estruch. He planned the whole case himself and showed me on the screen how each tooth would move. Twenty-two sets, finished two weeks earlier than predicted. I flew down four times in eleven months and every appointment started within five minutes of the time on the card."

"Crown fitted in two visits, no fuss. Fair price."

"There is a dog. I did not expect a dog. He put his head on my knee in the waiting area and I more or less stopped caring about the extraction."

"Núria the hygienist spent fifty minutes on me and showed me on the screen exactly where I keep missing with the brush. I have been going to dentists for forty years and nobody had done that before."

"The dentistry is good. Getting to the dentistry is the problem. You go in through a shared atrium in an office block, there is no clinic sign at street level, and I walked past the entrance twice with a suitcase in thirty degrees. Once you are upstairs it is calm and professional. Put a sign outside."

"Wheelchair user here. Step-free from the car park to the chair, the lift is big enough, the toilet actually works for me. I have paid three times as much in Zurich at clinics I could not properly get into."

"Six veneers on the uppers with Dr. Colomer. I was worried about ending up with the American look and said so; he talked me down half a shade and he was right. Two trips from Munich, 5,600 EUR all in. Laia arranged both around my work travel without me having to ask twice."