Doctors & dentists
expat-services.ch lists 23 hand-checked English-speaking dentists in Basel, including ABA Aeschenplatz Zahnklinik, apdental ag, claradent.ch and DENTIA Basel.
Besides English, they also work in German, French, Italian and Turkish. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live.
The dental practices below confirm English themselves: an English version of their website or a statement that English is spoken. We checked each practice’s website and its lead dentists in MedReg, the federal register, which shows a Basel-Stadt licence for every one of them (Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH/BAG), checked ). The list covers the city of Basel and one practice in Riehen.
How Swiss dental billing and emergency care work is in how to find an English-speaking dentist; the city is covered under Basel. Below the table: out-of-hours numbers, costs and licence checks.
23 providers
Dental clinic at Aeschenplatz in Basel, run with sister clinics at Claraplatz and Basel SBB, offering implants, hygiene and emergency care, with dentists labelled English-speaking.
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Is this your business?Dental practice of Dr. Andreas Müller in Basel (4053) offering implants, digital X-ray, aesthetic dentistry, orthodontics and bruxism splints, with staff speaking six languages including English.
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Is this your business?Dental practice at Claraplatz in Basel's Kleinbasel offering fillings, crowns, implants, periodontology, hygiene and same-day emergency appointments, with Dr. Ali Akzorba listed as speaking English.
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Is this your business?Dental practice in Basel's Gundeldingen district for general dentistry, aligners, implants, oral surgery and children, with a team speaking German, English and five other languages.
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Is this your business?Network of dental practices at Basel SBB station and in Riehen and Birsfelden, offering general dentistry, hygiene, implants, orthodontics and emergency care, with an English version of its website.
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Is this your business?Private dental practice in Basel's St. Alban quarter run by Dr. Garry Bonsall, offering family and implant dentistry with the website and consultations in English.
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Is this your business?Dental practice of Dr. Eric Meier on Aeschenvorstadt in Basel offering prophylaxis, periodontology, fillings, children's dentistry and dentures, with an English version of its website.
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Is this your business?Specialist dental practice at Greifengasse in Basel run by Dr. Thomas Gasser, focused on reconstructive dentistry and implants, with consultations in English, German and Italian.
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Is this your business?Family dental practice with two locations in Basel (Schuetzenmatt and Gundeli), focused on paediatric dentistry, orthodontics and prophylaxis, with an English version of its website.
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Is this your business?Dental clinic at Gellertstrasse in Basel led by Dr. Boris Nikas, offering check-ups, hygiene, root canals, prosthetics, implants and aesthetic dentistry, with an English version of its website.
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Is this your business?Dental practice of Dr. Christoph Villiger on Holbeinstrasse in Basel for children and adults: prevention, hygiene, paediatric and aesthetic restorations; English website.
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Is this your business?General dental practice at Aeschenvorstadt in Basel with two dentists, covering check-ups, prophylaxis, children's care and oral rehabilitation; English is spoken.
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Is this your business?Dental practice on Pilatusstrasse in Basel with three dentists: general dentistry, orthodontics, implants, periodontology, endodontics and treatment under anaesthesia.
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Is this your business?Multilingual dental practice at Untere Rebgasse near Claraplatz in Basel offering hygiene, fillings, crowns, root canals, implants and paediatric dentistry, with an English version of its website.
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Is this your business?General dental practice of Dr. Thomas Burger on Feierabendstrasse in Basel: prophylaxis, hygiene, restorations, implants; team speaks English, Spanish and Ukrainian.
General dental practice in Basel's Steinenvorstadt with three dentists offering fillings, root canals, implants, prophylaxis and oral surgery, and a team that speaks English among eight languages.
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Is this your business?General dental practice in Basel's old town on Freie Strasse with Dr. Edoardo Ruffo, offering oral hygiene, bleaching, restorations and implants, and stating it has an English-speaking dentist.
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Is this your business?Solo dental practice of Dr. Peter Radics in Basel's Clara quarter: tooth-preserving and periodontal care, fillings, prosthodontics and implants; English website.
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Is this your business?Family dental practice on Schützenmattstrasse in Basel: hygiene, periodontology, endodontics, implants, children's and senior dentistry; Dr. Veera Laederach speaks English.
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Is this your business?Dental practice at Greifengasse in Basel with four dentists: prophylaxis, prosthetics, orthodontics, children's dentistry, implants and oral surgery; full English website.
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Is this your business?General dental practice of Dr. Roland Pfeffer in Basel (4055), open since 1994: surgery, periodontics, prosthetics, implants, children's and geriatric dentistry.
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Is this your business?Dental practice at Rosengartenweg in Basel with Dr. Christian Sochaczewski: prevention, fillings, aesthetic dentistry, implants and restorations; English website.
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Is this your business?Network of more than 40 dental centres across Switzerland, several in Zurich, Basel, Bern and Zug, with extended opening hours incl. Saturdays; part of the Medbase group.
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Is this your business?Twenty-three dental practices in Basel and Riehen confirm English themselves, either with an English version of their website or a statement that English is spoken. The lead dentists named on those pages all hold a practice licence in Basel-Stadt in the federal MedReg register. The table lists the practices alphabetically, with what each publishes about new patients and out-of-hours care.
Only what a practice says on its own website counts here; a language entry in a booking platform or directory was not enough. The dentists we looked up are recorded in MedReg with German only, so the English claim rests on the practice’s own pages (Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH/BAG), checked ) (Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH/BAG), checked ).
Some entries are groups: DieZahnärzte.ch has practices at Basel SBB, in Riehen and in Birsfelden, the ABA Aeschenplatz Zahnklinik has sister clinics at Claraplatz and the SBB station, and Euler Praxis has two locations and concentrates on children and orthodontics. Zahnarztpraxis im Rauracher is in Riehen. Most practices publish nothing about new patients.
| Practice | Area | Languages | New patients (as published) | Out-of-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABA Aeschenplatz Zahnklinik | Aeschenplatz, 4051 (clinics also at Claraplatz and SBB) | German; dentists labelled English-speaking | Examination for new patients from CHF 100 | Mon–Fri 06:45–21:00, Sat to 20:00, Sun 07:45–20:00 (Sunday by phone) |
| apdental ag | 4053, Liesbergerstrasse | German, English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Kurdish | Not stated | Not stated |
| claradent.ch | Claraplatz, 4058 | German, Turkish, English, French (Dr. Akzorba) | Cleaning for new customers, flat CHF 100 | Same-day emergency appointments |
| DENTIA Basel | Gundeldingen, 4053 | German, French, Italian, English, Romanian, Turkish, Croatian | Not stated | Emergency page, by phone |
| DieZahnärzte.ch | Basel SBB, 4051; also Riehen | English website; German | CHF 50 voucher for new patients (to 31 Dec 2026) | Basel SBB open 365 days, Mon–Fri 07:00–21:00 |
| Dr. Garry Bonsall | St. Alban, 4052 | English, German | Not stated | 24/7 emergency number published |
| Dr. med. dent. Eric Meier | Aeschenvorstadt, 4051 | English website; German, French, Italian, Albanian | Not stated | Not stated |
| Dr. med. dent. Thomas Gasser | Greifengasse, 4058 | English, German, Italian | Online booking lists new patients | Emergency line in office hours |
| Euler Praxis | Schützenmatt 4051 and Gundeli 4053 | English website; German, Persian and others | Not stated | Refers to 061 261 15 15 |
| St. Albantor Zahnarzt | Gellertstrasse, 4052 | English website; German | “New patients” page; takes emergencies from new arrivals | Appointments also outside regular hours |
| Villiger's dental practice | Holbeinstrasse, 4051 | English website; German | Not stated | Answering machine gives emergency cover |
| zahnarztpraxis AESCHENHOF | Aeschenvorstadt, 4051 | German, French, English, Italian | Not stated | Outside hours: 061 261 15 15 |
| Zahnarztpraxis am Ring | Pilatusstrasse, 4054 | English website; German, Spanish, French | Not stated | Monday open to 20:00 |
| Zahnarztpraxis Clara | Untere Rebgasse, 4058 | English website; German, French, Italian, Turkish, Albanian | Cleaning and hygiene once for CHF 120 | “24/7” emergency number published |
| Zahnarztpraxis Dr. Burger | Feierabendstrasse, 4051 | German, English, Spanish, Ukrainian | New patients welcome | Outside hours by arrangement |
| Zahnarztpraxis Dr. Eitel-Kolesaric | Steinenvorstadt, 4051 | German, French, Italian, English and four more | Not stated | Refers to 061 261 15 15 |
| Zahnarztpraxis Dr. Radics | Clarastrasse, 4058 | English website; German, Hungarian, French, Italian | Not stated | Refers to 061 261 15 15 |
| Zahnarztpraxis Dr. Ruffo | Freie Strasse, 4051 | German, French, English, Italian | Not stated | Refers to 061 261 15 15 |
| Zahnarztpraxis im Rauracher | Riehen, 4125 | English website; German | Not stated | Emergencies by phone in office hours |
| Zahnarztpraxis Jörgensen | Greifengasse, 4058 | English website; German, French and more | Not stated | Not stated |
| Zahnarztpraxis Laederach | Schützenmattstrasse, 4051 | German, English, French, Finnish | Not stated | Refers to 061 261 15 15 |
| Zahnarztpraxis Pfeffer | Burgfelderstrasse, 4055 | English website; German, French, Italian | Not stated | Emergency mobile outside hours, then 061 261 15 15 |
| Zahnarztpraxis Rosengartenweg | Rosengartenweg, 4058 | English website; German | CHF 250 deposit for new patients | Nights and weekends: 061 261 15 15 |
As published by each practice on its own website, checked 21 October 2026; availability changes.
In Basel-Stadt and Baselland the dental emergency number is 061 261 15 15, answered around the clock every day of the year, and it refers callers to the practice on duty. The university dental centre UZB sees emergencies without an appointment on weekdays from 08:00 to 18:00. If a life is at risk, the number is 144.
Some practices publish longer hours or their own emergency number. DieZahnärzte.ch at Basel SBB says it is open 365 days a year: Monday to Friday 07:00 to 21:00, Saturday 08:00 to 20:00, Sunday and public holidays 10:00 to 16:00 (DieZahnärzte.ch, checked ). The ABA clinic lists Monday to Friday 06:45 to 21:00, Saturday until 20:00 and Sunday 07:45 to 20:00, with registration by phone on Sundays (ABA Aeschenplatz Zahnklinik AG, checked ); its sister clinic at the SBB station lists Monday to Saturday until 22:00 and Sunday until 20:00 (ZBB Zahnklinik Basel am Bahnhof SBB, checked ). Zahnarztpraxis Clara publishes a “24/7” emergency number (Zahnarztpraxis Clara, checked ) and Dr. Bonsall an emergency mobile number (Dr. Garry Bonsall, checked ). The official pages do not say whether the practice on duty treats in English.
Basic health insurance covers dental treatment only in narrow cases, such as a severe disease of the chewing system or an accident no other insurer pays. Check-ups, fillings and children’s braces are not covered. A bill is tariff points multiplied by the practice’s own point value: CHF 1.00 for social insurance, up to CHF 1.70 for private patients.
The FOPH states that dental treatment is not a standard benefit of basic insurance; the Health Care Benefits Ordinance lists every covered case in Art. 17 to 19a (Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH/BAG), checked ) (Fedlex, SR 832.112.31, checked ) (Fedlex, SR 832.10, checked ). Employees who work at least 8 hours a week for one employer are covered for accidents by that employer’s accident insurance; others are insured for accidents through their health insurer (Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH/BAG), checked ).
The SSO tariff has more than 500 services, each with a number of points; a recall examination of 48.8 points costs CHF 48.80 at CHF 1.00 a point, and the older tariff for basic-insurance cases applies CHF 3.10 (Swiss Dental Association (SSO), checked ). Each practice sets its own point value for private patients, and laboratory work is billed separately (SSO Basel and SSO Baselland, checked ). Among the practices above that publish one, it is CHF 1.1 at claradent.ch and Dr. Radics (claradent.ch, checked ) (Zahnarztpraxis Dr. Peter Radics, checked ), 1.16 at Zahnarztpraxis im Rauracher (Zahnarztpraxis im Rauracher, checked ), 1.2 at Euler Praxis and the ABA clinic (Euler Praxis AG, checked ) (ABA Aeschenplatz Zahnklinik AG, checked ), and 1.15 to 1.25 at Villiger’s practice (Zahnarztpraxis Villiger, checked ).
Dental insurance is a separate, optional supplementary policy that insurers can refuse or restrict because of health (Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH/BAG), checked ).
| Treatment | Basic insurance | Otherwise |
|---|---|---|
| Check-up, hygiene, filling | No | The patient or a supplementary policy |
| Braces for a child | No | The patient or a supplementary policy |
| Treatment for a listed disease | Yes, after deductible and co-payment | The patient pays deductible and co-payment |
| Accident, employed 8+ hours a week | No | The employer’s accident insurance |
Simplified; the KLV list decides each case.
MedReg, the federal register of medical professions, shows each dentist’s diploma, specialist titles and cantonal licence, and records a language once the dentist has proved at least B2 level. The Swiss Dental Association’s search lists its members and filters by language spoken. A missing language entry proves nothing about whether English is spoken.
MedReg is public and searchable by name at healthreg-public.admin.ch; it covers dentists, physicians, pharmacists, vets and chiropractors, not dental hygienists (Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH/BAG), checked ) (Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH/BAG), checked ). The SSO search filters its members by distance and by languages spoken, English included (Swiss Dental Association (SSO), checked ), and the Basel sections of the SSO publish lists of their members for Basel-Stadt and Baselland on a website with an English version (SSO Basel and SSO Baselland, checked ).
Practices publish this themselves. DieZahnärzte.ch at Basel SBB is open 365 days a year, including Sunday 10:00 to 16:00; the ABA clinic is open every day, weekdays until 21:00; Zahnarztpraxis am Ring lists Monday until 20:00. Weekday emergencies without an appointment go to the UZB until 18:00.
061 261 15 15, for Basel-Stadt and Baselland, answered around the clock. It refers callers to the dental practice on duty. For a life-threatening emergency the number is 144.
Only in narrow cases: severe diseases of the chewing system, severe general illnesses, treatment that supports care for such an illness, and accidents that no other insurance covers. Check-ups, fillings and children’s braces are paid privately or by a supplementary policy.
Each treatment has a number of tariff points, multiplied by the practice’s own point value. Accident, military and disability insurance pay CHF 1.00 a point; private patients pay up to CHF 1.70 under the SSO tariff. The practices above that publish a value state CHF 1.1 to 1.25.
Few say. Zahnarztpraxis Dr. Burger writes that new patients are welcome at any time; DieZahnärzte.ch, claradent.ch and Zahnarztpraxis Clara advertise new-patient offers; Zahnarztpraxis Rosengartenweg asks a CHF 250 deposit from new patients. Most publish nothing either way.
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