Tijuana
Walk across at San Ysidro from San Diego; the widest choice of specialists of any border city.
249 clinics · 27 guides
Destinations
All 26 Dental Tourism Destinations on Molar City (2026)
Molar City tracks dental clinics in 26 cities across five countries. Every destination gets its own free clinic ranking, scored with the same public formula, plus its own guides. Here they all are, sorted by the thing that actually decides the trip: how you get there.
Molar City has been independent and working in dental tourism since 2007. No clinic pays to move up the ranking.
26destinations
2,621ranked clinics
365published guides
26with a free ranking
Walk or drive across the border
Park on the U.S. side, walk across, and you are at the clinic. These are the classic day-trip destinations: no flight, no hotel, and you sleep in your own bed.
Los Algodones
The original "Molar City": a six-block walk from Andrade, California, 10 minutes from Yuma, Arizona.
189 clinics · 21 guides
Ciudad Juarez
Across the bridge from El Paso, Texas — the Texas equivalent of a border day trip.
141 clinics · 6 guides
Mexicali
Straight across from Calexico, California, and a drive-in from Yuma or Phoenix.
126 clinics · 24 guides
San Luis Rio Colorado
The quiet crossing at San Luis, Arizona, 25 minutes from Yuma. Shorter lines than Los Algodones.
112 clinics · 27 guides
Nogales
A walk-across from Nogales, Arizona, about an hour south of Tucson.
103 clinics · 26 guides
Agua Prieta
Walk across from Douglas, Arizona. Small, calm and close for southeastern Arizona.
57 clinics · 12 guides
Nuevo Progreso
The Winter Texan crossing from Progreso Lakes, in the Rio Grande Valley.
15 clinics · 6 guides
A short drive inside Mexico
Still a road trip, but you drive past the border strip. Bigger cities, more specialists, and usually an overnight stay.
Chihuahua
State capital roughly 4.5 hours from El Paso, or fly straight into CUU.
209 clinics · 12 guides
Hermosillo
Capital of Sonora, about 4 hours down Highway 15 from Nogales, or a direct flight into HMO.
160 clinics · 11 guides
Monterrey
Mexico's medical-tourism capital: drive from Laredo or McAllen, or a 90-minute flight from Houston.
92 clinics · 19 guides
Guaymas & San Carlos
On the Sea of Cortez, about 6 hours from the Nogales crossing down Highway 15.
79 clinics · 12 guides
Rocky Point
About 3.5 hours from Phoenix through the Lukeville crossing — beach town, no flight needed.
50 clinics · 10 guides
Fly-in destinations in Mexico
Direct flights from most U.S. and Canadian hubs. Best when you want to combine treatment with a real trip, or when you need a specialist a border town does not have.
Mexico City
Board-certified specialists and the cheapest flights in the country from almost any U.S. hub.
182 clinics · 15 guides
Guadalajara
Mexico's second city: dental schools, specialists and a lower cost of living than CDMX.
158 clinics · 6 guides
Merida
Yucatan capital, consistently ranked among the safest cities in Mexico.
98 clinics · 6 guides
Cancun
Direct flights from dozens of U.S. and Canadian cities into CUN; treatment plus the Caribbean.
92 clinics · 22 guides
Puerto Vallarta
Beach city on the Pacific with a large expat community and English-speaking clinics.
63 clinics · 6 guides
Los Cabos
Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo: resort dentistry with short flights from the West Coast.
48 clinics · 23 guides
Playa del Carmen
An hour south of Cancun airport, quieter than Cancun and popular with repeat patients.
34 clinics · 17 guides
International destinations
Outside Mexico. Longer flights, but for full-mouth cases the savings can still cover the trip. Read the safety and warranty sections carefully before you book.
Istanbul
The global hub for all-inclusive smile packages — and the place to read the "Turkey teeth" warnings first.
168 clinics · 27 guides
Medellin
A growing cosmetic-dentistry hub with direct flights from Miami, Fort Lauderdale and New York.
50 clinics · 6 guides
San Jose
Short flights from the U.S. South and East Coast, and prices quoted directly in dollars.
42 clinics · 6 guides
Budapest
Europe's long-established dental destination, mostly for European and Canadian patients.
37 clinics · 6 guides
Bangkok
Large international hospitals with dental departments; a long flight, so best for big cases.
35 clinics · 6 guides
Antalya
Turkey's resort coast: the same package model as Istanbul, with the beach attached.
32 clinics · 6 guides
Why some cities have a price list and others do not
We only publish a city price list when we find advertised prices for at least half of the main treatments, from three or more different clinics, with no row resting on a single data point. If a city does not clear that bar we keep what we harvested but do not publish it: a table built on two prices misleads more than it helps.
Rankings work differently: they are scored from each clinic's public digital footprint, so they exist as soon as we have clinics tracked. How we rank dental clinics.
