Real Dental Costs

Real Dental Costs answers dental price and coverage questions with published research. Each figure comes back with its source, its period and a link to the matching page of realdentalcosts.com.

What you can do:

• Check a dentist's quote or treatment plan line by line (CDT codes such as D2740 or procedure names, with quantities and quoted amounts). Codes that make up one treatment, such as an implant, its abutment and its crown, are read together and compared with published reference figures.
• Look up what a common procedure costs nationally or by state, or compare two to five states side by side. For crown, veneer, braces and dentures, the server gives national figures only.
• Ask whether adult Medicaid covers dental care in a state, whether it has a yearly dollar limit, and what Medicaid paid per claim line for a CDT code.
• Ask whether Medicare covers dental work, with the statute and medicare.gov quoted.
• Estimate your out-of-pocket share from your own plan figures (deductible left, annual maximum left, coinsurance).
• Find low-cost care in a state: dental school clinics, community health centers and dental shortage areas.
• See dated changes to public dental programs, Canadian costs by province and a Canadian Dental Care Plan co-pay check. English or Spanish.

Limits:

• Price bands are market research, not a quote from any dentist and not what an insurer or Medicaid will pay for a given person. Each figure is labelled observed or estimated. State implant figures are an editorial estimate, not collected prices. A figure that is not published at a given level is reported as missing.
• Pricing and coverage research only, not medical, dental, insurance or financial advice.
• Read-only: no account, no login. It books, buys, sends and contacts nothing, and never asks for a name, contact details, insurer or member ID.