GHA Certification — The Only Dental Clinic on the Register

DentSpa is now a GHA certified dental clinic. On 16 July 2026, Global Healthcare Accreditation awarded us its Certification for Excellence in Medical Travel Patient Experience.¹

One detail deserves a plain statement, because it surprised us too. Open GHA’s public register of accredited and certified organisations and read the list: hospitals, cardiac centres, eye and obesity centres, a children’s hospital, several of the best-known names in international medicine. DentSpa Clinic is the only dental clinic on it.²

We are not asking you to take that on trust. It sits on a public page on someone else’s website, and you can check it in the time it takes to read this sentence. You can also open the certificate itself.

Dental treatment drives more medical travel than almost anything else. Yet accreditation in this field grew up around hospitals — inpatient admissions, operating theatres, wards, discharge to a bed.

Dental travel looks nothing like that. There is no ward. A patient lands, sees a clinician over a handful of appointments, then flies home — often to a country where nobody has yet examined the work. The real risk in dental travel sits in the communication before arrival and the follow-up after departure, and a hospital-shaped standard was never designed to look there.

That is why an outside body assessing a dental practice against a medical travel standard means more than another logo. Someone examined the parts of dental travel that actually decide whether it goes well.

The certification assesses the systems, processes and touchpoints that shape a travelling patient’s experience — not marketing, not interiors, not follower counts. Specifically:¹

• Patient enquiry management and pre-arrival communication
• Treatment planning and informed consent
• Cultural and language support
• Financial transparency
• Travel coordination and care transitions
• Discharge processes and post-treatment follow-up

Delivering those areas takes an operation: roughly 150 patient-communication staff, a 20-member medical advisory team, drivers, planning specialists and hotel coordination teams, all working alongside our clinical, finance, quality and patient experience departments.¹ That structure lets us plan a case, schedule it, allocate the right clinicians, and stay with a patient long after they fly home.

The GHA Certification process helped us look at the patient experience through a truly international lens, strengthen our systems around the unique needs of medical travellers, and further align our program with globally recognised best practices.

Dr Ahnaf Aljajah, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DentSpa¹

Many organisations serving international patients focus heavily on marketing, facilities, or technology, but may overlook the hidden operational gaps that influence trust, safety, conversion, loyalty, and long-term reputation.

Renée-Marie Stephano, Chief Executive Officer, Global Healthcare Accreditation¹

It does not guarantee your individual clinical result, and we will not present it as one.

It says an outside body examined how this organisation runs the journey around your treatment. It says nothing about whether your jaw carries enough bone for an implant, or whether a particular restoration suits your case. An examination and a scan settle those questions. Any clinic that presents an accreditation badge as a promise about your outcome oversells it — and that applies to ours as much as to anyone else’s.

What it does tell you concerns everything you cannot see from abroad: how a clinic builds a plan, what it tells you before you pay, who replies when you send a question at 11pm from another time zone, and what happens once you get home. Someone other than us has now looked at all of that.

Founded in 2018 in Istanbul’s Şişli district, DentSpa works almost entirely with international patients, and pairs advanced dental care with an environment that makes a long trip for complex treatment less stressful than it usually feels.¹

• Implant dentistry — a single tooth implant, implants for multiple teeth, or All-on-4 full-arch rehabilitation. We fit Straumann implants — a system with a long published clinical record and parts you can source internationally, which matters when you live somewhere else. Further reading: dental implants abroad.
• Oral and maxillofacial surgery, including bone grafting, sinus lift and jaw surgery.
• Prosthodontics and restorative care — crowns, bridges, root canal treatment and full-mouth rehabilitation.
• Cosmetic dentistry — veneers, smile design, whitening and gum contouring.

Our clinical recognition sits alongside this one: DentSpa holds the title of Best Dental Clinic in Europe in the Odontology category from The European Awards in Medicine.⁵ As with the GHA listing, we quote every title next to a link to the body that issued it. An award you cannot verify yourself is worth nothing.

Our international guests page covers what we arrange for patients travelling to us, and you can start a conversation without committing to anything through our contact page.