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Dental · Suwon, South Korea

Teeth Cleaning cost in Suwon

Procedure from

$12

All-in from United States

≈ $1,910

37
B

MPI · Procedure Index · how

Procedure price range · Suwon

Cheaper than 44% of cities pricing this

$12lowest $29typical $47highest

Updated 2026-07-10 · How we collect & verify prices Compare clinics ↓

In plain words · Teeth Cleaning is a medical procedure — the prices below are what hospitals publish for it.

Scaling and polishing, dental cleaning, plaque removal

Procedure from
$12
lowest listed
Typical
$29
city midpoint
All-in
≈ $1,910
from United States
MPI Index
37
B
Clinics
2
in Suwon

Top hospital in Suwon · Newsweek #57 in South Korea

#57 The Catholic University of Korea - St. Vincent's Hospital B 3.2★ 4주기 의료기관평가 인증 (4th-cycle Healthcare Accreditation)

The Catholic University of Korea St. Vincent's Hospital (가톨릭대학교 성빈센트병원) is a general/teaching hospital in Ji-dong, Paldal-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do — the Suwon campus of the 8-hospital Catholic Medical Center (CMC) network. Opened 1967-06-03 as the university's 5th affiliated hospital, it now runs roughly 786 licensed beds (including 61 ICU beds, 2024 figures) across a main building and a dedicated cancer hospital, plus a cardio-cerebrovascular hospital opened in 2023. It reports a government-designated regional neonatal ICU, a certified stroke center, and a gastrointestinal-endoscopy training-hospital designation, and states a 4th-cycle national Healthcare Accreditation obtained in March 2023 (self-reported, not independently directory-confirmed in this session).

Procedure in Suwon from $12 — full price data below.

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Procedure price in Suwon, local currency

Verified

The published market range in local currency, with today's conversions.

₩17,800–₩70,000

≈ $12–$47 · €11–€41 · £9–£35 · A$17–A$68 — converted at the ECB via frankfurter.dev rate of 2026-07-17

Vs home markets

  • United States Not yet sourced
  • United Kingdom Not yet sourced
  • Australia Not yet sourced
  • Germany Not yet sourced

Spread 293% across 1 data point — a wide range means quotes are negotiable and case-dependent.

Price history — snapshotted since 2026-07-19; the trend line appears with the next snapshot.

Currency exposure — bills are in KRW: a 5% move against your currency shifts the mid-range by ≈ $1 either way. Converted at the ECB via frankfurter.dev rate of 2026-07-17.

Insurer data Private market per-session as of 2026

Verified against published clinic prices.

Hospitals & clinics in Suwon

Best first

The best hospitals first — Newsweek World's Best national top 10 lead, then our connected-chain grade. Re-rank by cheapest, rating or reviews.

Destination-safety factor for South Korea: ×1.00 — Level 1 — Exercise Normal Precautions (the lowest advisory tier) (US State Dept Travel Advisory, 2025-08).

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All-in trip cost

Modeled preview

Procedure plus flights, hotel, transport and medication from United States — the number that actually decides it.

Procedure (from)
$12
Flights (round-trip) est.
$1,300
Hotel · 5 nights est.
$450
Local transport est.
$110
Medication est.
$40
All-in ≈
$1,910

Flights are estimated round-trip economy from United States (change in the header). Hotel, transport and medication are Medical Travel Cost estimates, not quotes. Procedure is the lowest price on this page.

Teeth Cleaning in other cities

Imported

The same procedure across the registry — cheapest first. Cities we haven't priced yet show no number, never a guess.

City From vs Suwon MPI Specialists
Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam $4 -68% 8
New Delhi India $8 -30% 1
Seoul South Korea $9 -21% 23
Istanbul Turkey $10 -20% 18
Ankara Turkey $10 -20% 5
Antalya Turkey $10 -20% 1
İzmir Turkey $10 -20%
Bursa Turkey $10 -20% 1
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia not yet priced · being collected

Cheapest starting price per city, converted to your currency. ★ = lowest in the registry; cheapest ≠ best — the MPI column grades each market as its data lands. "—" is never guessed.

What's in the price — and why it varies

Modeled preview

A typical cost anatomy over the published total, and the factors that move a real quote up or down.

Typical cost anatomy

≈ $29
  • Surgeon & operating room$7
  • Anesthesia$2
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$6
  • Implants & materials$11
  • Post-op & follow-up$3

Usually included

  • ✓ Surgeon, anesthesia & OR fees
  • ✓ 5 nights' hospital stay
  • ✓ Standard implants & materials
  • ✓ Nursing, meals & standard follow-up

Budget on top

  • + Flights & airport transfer
  • + Hotel before/after admission
  • + Visa & travel insurance
  • + Take-home medications
  • + Physiotherapy / rehab
  • + Extended stay if complications arise

What moves the price

  • 1Implant/crown brand and the number of teeth treated
  • 2Case complexity and how advanced the condition is
  • 3Surgeon seniority and case volume
  • 4Hospital tier, theatre and room class
  • 5Materials, implants or drug generation used
  • 6Anesthesia type and time in theatre
Published package inclusions per hospitalwhat each hospital's package price covers vs à-la-carte — the line-by-line comparison that settles quotes Not yet sourced

The split is modeled from typical cost structures; the total is the published price. Itemized hospital quotes replace this as they're sourced.

What you're buying — the spec sheet

Modeled preview

The countable facts of the purchase itself — setting, anesthesia, theatre time, visits and materials. Hospital-published specs replace the typicals as they're collected.

Setting
Outpatient — no hospital admission (typical)
Anesthesia
Local — sedation on request (typical)
Time in theatre
Not yet sourcedhospital-published — collected per hospital
Visits
One procedure + follow-up around day 1
Device / materials
Not yet sourcedwhat's implanted or used — collected per procedure

Typicals from the same model as the recovery timeline — your surgeon's plan for your case is the spec that counts. Every sourced spec raises this page's MPI coverage.

Recovery timeline

Modeled preview

Plan ~2 days in South Korea before flying home; minimal downtime — back to work ~day 1; the final result settles by ~day 1. Your doctor confirms your case.

  1. Day −1

    Arrive · consultation, tests & final treatment plan

  2. Day 0

    Treatment session · outpatient, back at your hotel the same day

  3. Day 1

    First follow-up check with your doctor

  4. Day 1

    Typically cleared to fly home

  5. Day 1

    Walking & light activity comfortably

  6. Day 1

    Back to desk work

  7. Day 1

    Exercise & strenuous activity again

  8. Day 1

    Full recovery · final result (typical)

Back home — who takes care of you after

  • Before flying home Final review around day 1, before you're cleared to fly
  • First weeks back home A routine progress check — doable locally with your records
  • Take with you Full operative notes, imaging and implant/protocol details — ask before discharge
  • Remote follow-up offered Not yet sourced
  • Complication support window Not yet sourced

The two hospital-policy rows are collected per hospital — remote follow-up and complication support are decision data, so they're never assumed.

Outcomes & success benchmarks

Not yet sourced

The outcome metrics that will grade this procedure in the Medical Travel Cost Index — filled from clinical registries and hospital-published data, never guessed.

0 of 6 outcome metrics sourced — each one raises this page's MPI coverage Show slots
  • Success rate vs published international benchmarks Not yet sourced
  • Complication rate vs WHO/OECD averages Not yet sourced
  • Revision / re-treatment rate vs registry average Not yet sourced
  • Patient-reported satisfaction vs same procedure across the registry Not yet sourced
  • Procedures per year in this market hospital-published volumes · national statistics Not yet sourced
  • Annual volume at the busiest hospital here volume–outcome proxy · hospital-published Not yet sourced

Empty slots are deliberate — a number appears here only with a source behind it, never guessed.

South Korea for medical travel — safety, recourse & visa

Sourced Full South Korea guide →

What matters if it goes wrong, and what it takes to get there — country-level, verifiable guidance in one place.

Visa
Most Western nationalities (US, UK, EU/Schengen, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan) enter visa-free for short medical or tourist visits. The K-ETA (electronic travel authorization) requirement is temporarily WAIVED for 67 countries and territories through 31 December 2026 — eligible travellers enter without applying for a K-ETA; the requirement is expected to resume 1 January 2027. Confirm your nationality's current rule before travelling.
Medical / long-stay visa
For treatment, foreign patients typically use the C-3-3 medical tourism visa (short-term, stays up to 90 days, generally not extendable beyond 90 days except in special circumstances). For treatment or recovery longer than 90 days, patients change to or apply for the G-1-10 long-term medical treatment visa, which can be extended inside Korea; it requires hospital documentation (medical opinion, treatment schedule, payment records). Applications must be tied to a medical institution registered with KTO/KHIDI.
Arrival
From 1 January 2026, all foreign arrivals must file the mandatory digital e-Arrival Card online (within 3 days before arrival) — it replaces the paper disembarkation card and is a declaration, not a visa. Travellers who hold an approved K-ETA are exempt from the arrival card, but nationals of K-ETA-waived countries (US, UK, EU, Japan, etc.) must still complete the e-Arrival Card.
Currency
South Korean Won (KRW, ₩)
Languages
Korean; English widely spoken in international-patient centers at major hospitals, with interpreter services in multiple languages
Traveller safety
Very safe for visitors
Legal recourse
Established malpractice recourse
Insurance
Medical-travel & complication cover widely available
International patients
Hospitals accustomed to international patients

General guidance from public sources — confirm current rules for your nationality. Verified against: Korea Immigration — K-ETA temporary exemption extended to 31 Dec 2026 (MOFA/KPMG GMS alert) · Korea e-Arrival Card mandatory from 1 Jan 2026 · Medical Korea — medical visa (C-3-3 / G-1-10), KHIDI · MOHW — Korea attracts 1.17 million foreign patients in 2024.

Risks & the questions to ask

Modeled preview

A planning frame — the risks are confirmed for your case by the specialist. The checklist is what an expert would ask before booking anywhere.

Common & temporary

Swelling, bruising, short-term pain

Serious & rare

Bleeding, infection, anesthesia reactions, revision surgery

How to de-risk

Ask the complication and revision rate for THIS procedure at THIS hospital, and what aftercare is included if something goes wrong

Eligibility — is this even for you?

Typical candidacy criteriaclinical guidelines · sourced per procedure Not yet sourced
Common contraindicationswhat typically rules it out — sourced per procedure Not yet sourced

Ask the specialist before you book

  1. 1How many of this exact procedure did you perform last year?
  2. 2What is your complication and revision rate for it?
  3. 3Who manages my aftercare once I fly home, and how?
  4. 4What exactly is included in the quoted price — and what isn't?

Framework guidance modeled by procedure type — per-procedure clinical risk data replaces it as it's sourced.

Alternatives to teeth cleaning

Directory

What's typically considered instead, and when — suitability is a specialist's call, not a price comparison.

  • Dental bridge Typically chosen when neighboring teeth already need crowns.
  • Dentures Typically chosen for multiple missing teeth on a budget.

Linked alternatives are priced in this city; the rest join as their pages go live.

Conditions & specialists for this

Directory

How this procedure connects to the conditions it treats and the specialists who perform it in Suwon.

Dots carry the lens colors — red opens a condition page, teal a specialist page, both priced for Suwon.

Medical Travel Cost Procedure Index

MPI · Method 1.3 Methodology →

One comparable grade per procedure page — each metric measured against the price registry and weighted by the same public formula. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.

37
B

80% of the formula backed by data

  • Price competitiveness 44 Imported cheaper than 44% of cities · vs 18 cities pricing this procedure · 44th percentile
  • Savings vs home Not sourced — · needs a home-market price to compare
  • Price evidence 18 Imported 1 data point · sourced/verified price rows behind the range
  • Provider choice 24 Imported 2 clinics · providers offering it in this city
  • Provider trust 63 Our index 63/100 top · best provider's Trust Index

Same method as every hospital and procedure page in the registry. Machine-readable version below for models & crawlers.

Common questions

Sourced + modeled

Short answers built from the numbers on this page — costs, stay length, safety and verification.

How much does teeth cleaning cost in Suwon?

The published range in Suwon is ₩17,800–₩70,000 (typically around $29). Clinic quotes vary by case.

How long do I need to stay in Suwon?

Plan roughly 2 days in South Korea for the typical case — arrival and consultation, the procedure, and follow-up before you're cleared to fly. Back to desk work around day 1 (modeled typical; your doctor confirms).

Is it safe to have teeth cleaning in South Korea?

Very safe for visitors for visitors, and established malpractice recourse. Hospital-level safety signals (accreditation, Trust Index) are listed per hospital below — availability and outcomes always depend on the individual provider.

Which hospitals in Suwon offer teeth cleaning?

2 dental and multi-specialty providers are listed for Suwon, with a top Trust Index of 63/100. We list them as a directory — per-hospital availability is confirmed on each hospital's own page.

Are these prices verified?

Yes — the Suwon price range is verified against a published clinic source (PUBLIC tier: NHIS covers whole-mouth scaling once/yr for 19+, uniform copay ₩17,800 nationwide (incl. Suwon). PRIVATE/uninsured tier: Jeil Plant Suwon (제일플란트 수원) 비급여진료수가표 lists 치석제거-전악 (whole-mouth scaling) ₩50,000 (fetched primary); Suwon Seoul-S Dental (수원 서울S치과) and modoodoc Suwon-area clinics corroborate the ₩50,000–70,000 out-of-pocket band. 스케일링 second-visit / non-covered.). Per-clinic prices are added and verified next.

Data & sources

22% verified Methodology →

How much of this page is verified data — every section carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.

42%
data confidence · Partial
Verified facts22%
Page filled78%
All 9 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more
  • City price range· PUBLIC tier: NHIS covers whole-mouth scaling once/yr for 19+, uniform copay ₩17,800 nationwide (incl. Suwon). PRIVATE/uninsured tier: Jeil Plant Suwon (제일플란트 수원) 비급여진료수가표 lists 치석제거-전악 (whole-mouth scaling) ₩50,000 (fetched primary); Suwon Seoul-S Dental (수원 서울S치과) and modoodoc Suwon-area clinics corroborate the ₩50,000–70,000 out-of-pocket band. 스케일링 second-visit / non-covered. ✓ Verified
  • Per-clinic prices Not yet collected
  • City comparison· 8 priced Imported
  • Provider directory· 2 clinics Imported
  • Outcome benchmarks· slots ready — feed the Index Not yet collected
  • Spec sheet & aftercare· 3 of 5 specs typed Modeled
  • Recovery timeline Modeled
  • Trip cost estimates Modeled
  • Visa & travel guidance ✓ Verified

Every field is tagged by source state. "Verified" = sourced and checked; "Imported" = real data pending re-verification; "Modeled" = deterministic placeholder for this preview; "Not yet collected" = on our roadmap. Confidence feeds the Medical Travel Cost Index. Methodology →