Dental Implant Cost: Single Tooth to Full Mouth, With the Sources Side by Side

For one finished implant tooth (the post in the jaw, the connector called an abutment, and the crown on top), most published estimates we read on 11 November 2026 fall between about $2,800 and $7,500, and a 2025 phone survey of 278 dental practices in six US cities found a median quote of $4,000. A figure near $2,000 often prices the post alone, without the crown. For a fixed full arch of teeth on implants, one modelled estimate gives $14,720 to $38,610 per arch and a lender gives $11,640 to $27,500 without saying whether that is one arch or both; full-mouth figures run from $15,000 to $60,000 or more. No single number is “the” price: each source below measures something different, and we show who publishes it and why it might lean. More on replacing teeth is in our implants and dentures guide.

General information about costs, not dental, medical, insurance, tax or financial advice. Your dentist decides what treatment suits you; your plan’s documents and a pre-treatment estimate decide what it pays.

This page compares money only. Your dentist decides what is clinically suitable for you, including whether an implant, a bridge or a denture fits your mouth. If you already hold a quote, the implant cost estimator adds up the parts with each source shown, and the sections below help you check a written treatment plan line by line.

What you are paying for

The US Food and Drug Administration describes dental implants as “medical devices surgically implanted into the jaw” that support artificial teeth such as crowns, bridges or dentures. FDA says the implant body is “surgically inserted in the jawbone in place of the tooth’s root”, and the abutment “extends through gums into the mouth to support the attached artificial teeth” (FDA page, content current as of 29 October 2021).

That is why one implant tooth usually shows up as at least three lines on a treatment plan or an explanation of benefits (EOB, the statement your plan sends after a claim):

• the post placed in the jaw, usually billed as D6010 (a “mini” implant has its own number, D6013);
• the abutment, the connector between post and crown, billed as D6056 for a ready-made one or D6057 for a custom-made one;
• the crown, billed for example as D6058 for a porcelain crown on an abutment, or D6065 for a porcelain crown fixed straight to the implant.

Code numbers are from the CDT Code, maintained by the American Dental Association; the descriptions here are our own. Each number above is printed in the 2026 federal employee dental plan brochures (Delta Dental’s 2026 FEDVIP brochure, p. 31, lists the implant codes). Ask for a written plan with the code beside each fee, so you can see whether a quoted “implant” price is the post, the whole tooth or something in between.

Published estimates, side by side

We found no government agency that publishes a national price for a dental implant. What exists are figures from insurers, a lender, a trade journal, a dental school and a dental software company. We list each with what it says it covers, the date, and one reason it may lean. These are published estimates; we don’t average them, because they don’t measure the same thing.

Source (who publishes it)	Figure	What it covers	Date	May lean because
Dental Economics (trade journal; a phone survey of 278 practices in Houston, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver and Philadelphia)	Median $4,000; middle half of quotes $3,000 to $5,125	Post, abutment and crown, as quoted by phone	Survey 2025, published 1 Feb 2026	Six metro areas only; the lead author is a partner in a Houston oral surgery practice, and the study finds specialists’ quotes lower
Delta Dental Plans Association (insurer)	$2,800 to $5,600	One implant replacing a single tooth, without dental benefits; doesn’t say whether the abutment and crown are in it	Based on its 2022 internal data; page undated	Sells plans that pay toward implants; built from its own internal data, method not shown
Guardian Life (insurer)	$3,000 to $7,500	“Typically” post, abutment and crown	Updated 29 Jan 2026	Its footnote points to one New York City practice’s price guide, a high-cost market
Penn Dental Medicine (University of Pennsylvania dental school clinics), repeated by MetLife (insurer)	$3,000 to $6,000	Replacing a single tooth	24 Jun 2025 (Penn); 21 Sep 2025 (MetLife)	The dental school clinics’ own blog post, with no source given; MetLife repeats it, so we count it once
Humana (insurer)	$856 to $2,122	Implant, abutment, crown and other necessary procedures, in Orlando, Florida only	Last updated 1 Jun 2026	From Humana’s own pricing tool for one city; far below every other whole-tooth figure here
Pearl (dental software company; a modelled estimate)	$2,005 to $5,255; average $3,075	Labelled with the post’s code; the page lists abutment and crown as often billed separately, though its title says “all-in”	Updated May 2026	Says it is “based on ADA fee survey data” without showing a method
CareCredit (a lender that finances dental work; Synchrony’s 2024 cost survey)	Average $2,143; $1,646 to $4,157	A “full-size single tooth implant”; CareCredit’s implant cost guide says its $2,143 average doesn’t include the crown	20 Feb 2026 (article); 2024 survey	Sells the financing for this treatment

Read the table by its third column. The figures for a whole tooth or one replaced tooth from Dental Economics, Delta Dental, Guardian and Penn sit between $2,800 and $7,500. Humana’s is far lower, but it covers Orlando, Florida only. CareCredit’s figure is the post alone, and Pearl’s is labelled with the post’s code. If a quote says “implant: $2,000”, ask whether the abutment and crown are extra: Pearl lists both as often billed separately.

CareCredit’s two figures disagree

CareCredit publishes two national averages from the same Synchrony survey. Its implant cost guide gives $2,143 for a single implant and says this “doesn’t include the cost of the dental crown”, and its state-by-state table leaves out the crown, an extraction and office fees. Its main cost table lists $4,344 for a “standard” endosteal implant per tooth, next to versions with bone grafts from $4,070 to $5,580, without saying what the $4,344 includes. Both come from a lender’s survey, so we count them as one source. Neither should be read as the price of a finished tooth; we use the $2,143 post-only figure as a component below.

You may also see “implants cost $3,000 to $5,000” given as one national figure. The sources we read measure different things (post only or whole tooth, one city or six, claims data or phone quotes). That is why we show them side by side instead.

Several teeth, a full arch, a full mouth

When all the teeth in one jaw are replaced, the work is billed per arch (upper or lower), not per tooth. A fixed full-arch denture on implants, often sold under brand names such as All-on-4, is billed as D6114 for the upper jaw or D6115 for the lower; a removable “snap-on” denture on implants is D6110 or D6111. There is no separate code for four implants versus six. Our full-arch implants page and full-mouth implants page go through these in detail.

Source (who publishes it)	Figure	Unit	Date	May lean because
Pearl (dental software company; modelled)	Fixed full arch on four implants: $14,720 to $38,610	Per arch (labelled with the upper-arch code, and its FAQ prices All-on-4 per arch); its list of what a quote usually includes names a 3D scan, extractions, a temporary set of teeth and sedation	Updated May 2026	Modelled figures, method not shown
CareCredit (a lender that finances dental work)	Fixed full arch on four implants: average $15,176, $11,640 to $27,500	Doesn’t say per arch or both	24 Apr 2026; 2024 survey	Sells the financing
Guardian Life (insurer)	$15,000 to $60,000	“Full-mouth restorations”	Updated 29 Jan 2026	Second-hand, from one New York City practice
Penn Dental Medicine (dental school clinics)	“At least $60,000”	“A full mouth of replacement teeth”	24 Jun 2025	The clinics’ own blog post, no source; doesn’t say what the work includes

Only Pearl says its full-arch figure is per arch. None of the full-mouth sources says what the work is built from (a fixed arch on a few implants in each jaw, or separate implant teeth throughout), so the gap between $15,000 and “at least $60,000” can’t be read as two prices for the same work. Replacing two or three teeth in a row with an implant-supported bridge is priced on our bridge cost page.

What the price includes, line by line

A treatment plan for one implant tooth can have several lines, sometimes from two offices if one dentist places the post and another makes the crown. The table gives each part with its code and the published ranges we found. The spread runs from the lowest published low to the highest published high (our arithmetic), not an average. The last column says whether Pearl, a dental software company, lists the part as often billed separately from the post.

Part (our words), code	Published figures	Spread	On Pearl’s billed-apart list?
Panoramic X-ray, D0330	CareCredit, a lender, $157 to $343 (2024 survey, posted 31 Jan 2025); MetLife $100 to $250 (Sep 2025); Humana up to $160, Orlando only (Jun 2026)	$100 to $343	Not listed
Simple extraction, D7140, if the tooth is still there	CareCredit $137 to $335 (Sep 2024); Pearl $170 to $450 (May 2026); Humana $225, Orlando only (Jun 2026)	$137 to $450	Yes
Bone graft in the socket, per site, D7953	Pearl $680 to $1,790 (May 2026); CareCredit donor-bone graft, site not stated, $652 to $1,575 (Feb 2025). Only two published sources were found	$652 to $1,790	Yes, “if needed”
Post placed in the jaw, D6010	Dental Economics median $2,572, middle half $2,180 to $3,000; CareCredit $1,646 to $4,157; Pearl $2,005 to $5,255; MetLife $1,000 to $3,000; Guardian about $1,500 to $3,000	$1,000 to $5,255	The base fee
Abutment, ready-made or custom, D6056 or D6057	Dental Economics custom abutment median $1,100, middle half $800 to $1,300; MetLife $500 to $1,000. Only two published sources were found	$500 to $1,300	Yes
Crown on the implant, for example D6058 or D6065	MetLife $800 to $3,000; Guardian $1,000 to $2,000 or more, “depending on the material used”. Only two published sources were found	$800 to $3,000	Yes

Adding up the spreads for one tooth with no extraction or graft (panoramic X-ray, post, abutment, crown) gives $2,400 to $9,898 (our arithmetic: $100 + $1,000 + $500 + $800 at the low end; $343 + $5,255 + $1,300 + $3,000 at the high end). With a simple extraction and a socket graft it comes to $3,189 to $12,138 (adding $137 + $652 at the low end and $450 + $1,790 at the high end). That build-up is wider than any single whole-tooth figure in the first table, because it stacks every part’s lowest and highest published price. A new-patient exam (D0150) would be a further line: Pearl puts it at $65 to $165 (May 2026), and MetLife gives $112 for an exam in one Philadelphia ZIP code (21 Apr 2026); only two published sources were found, one range and one single-city figure. With the exam, the four parts come to $2,465 to $10,063, the range our implant estimator starts from for one tooth (our arithmetic).

We give no figure here for a 3D cone beam scan of the jaws (D0367) or for sedation: ask for the fee. A sinus lift (D7951 or D7952) has very few published prices; our bone graft cost page lists the ones we found. If an extraction is surgical (D7210), it is priced higher than a simple one: CareCredit, a lender, gives $363 on average against $177 for a simple extraction (2024 survey). More sources are on our extraction cost page.

What patients actually paid

The federal source we use for what US patients and their insurers actually paid is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a national household survey. In our tabulation of its 2023 dental visits file (weighted, leaving out visits billed as part of a flat-fee package, where one payment covers several visits), visits that included implant work had a median payment of $1,500 and a mean of $2,402, with the middle half between $211 and $3,400; about 70% of those payments came out of patients’ own pockets. These are payments per visit, not per finished tooth (an implant takes several visits), the sample is small (155 visits), and the figures are in 2023 dollars.

Two national figures put that in context. Across all dental care, people paid $72.5 billion of the $189.2 billion spent in 2024 out of pocket, 38.3% (CMS National Health Expenditure tables, Table 12). And dental prices were 6.0% higher in September 2026 than a year earlier, by the BLS consumer price index for dental services (series CUUR0000SEMC02). Figures from surveys run in 2022 to 2025, as most of those above were, may sit below what offices quote today.

Why quotes differ

• Post only or whole tooth. A $2,000 “implant” and a $4,500 “implant” may be prices for different work.
• Who places it. In the Dental Economics survey, offices where a specialist placed the post quoted a median $3,400 for the whole tooth, against $4,800 where a general dentist did (a finding the lead author, an oral surgeon, highlights).
• Where you live. The same survey’s city medians ran from $3,665 in Houston to $5,505 in Minneapolis.
• Extra work before the post. An extraction, a socket graft or a sinus lift adds lines; so does a 3D scan or sedation.
• Abutment and crown materials. An abutment can be ready-made (D6056) or custom-made (D6057), and Guardian, an insurer, says the crown’s price depends on the material used.
• In or out of network. An in-network dentist has agreed to the plan’s allowed amount (the most the plan counts for a service); out of network, you can be billed the difference.
• How the figure was gathered. Phone quotes, claims data, a lender’s practice survey and a modelled estimate will not agree, even for the same work.

For a figure for your own area, FAIR Health’s consumer site lets you look up dental costs by zip code yourself.

With insurance: what a plan might pay

Dental plans differ a lot on implants. Some pay part, some cap implants separately, some pay as if you’d had a cheaper bridge, and some don’t pay at all. Here is what real plan documents say, with one example fee of $4,000 assumed to be the plan’s allowed amount (a round number from the middle of the first table, not a price to expect). How dental insurance works explains each term.

Plan document (year)	Its rule for implants	Plan pays on $4,000	You pay
Delta Dental FEDVIP, High Option, in network (2026)	You pay 50% for major work; no in-network deductible; implants capped at $2,500 a person a year	$2,000	$2,000
Delta Dental FEDVIP, Standard Option, in network (2026)	You pay 65%; $1,500 yearly maximum for all care	$1,400 if none of the maximum is used	$2,600
Same, with $1,000 of the maximum already used that year	Plan pays only up to the $500 left	$500	$3,500
Delta Dental of Iowa individual Platinum Prime, PPO dentist (2027 policy)	You pay 60% after a 12-month waiting period; $25 deductible; $2,000 yearly maximum	$1,590 after the wait (none in the first 12 months, unless earlier coverage counts toward the wait)	$2,410 ($4,000 in the first 12 months)
Cigna Dental 1000, Colorado (2025 contract)	Excludes “the initial placement of an implant”, the surgical placement of the post and the abutment; no payment to replace teeth missing when coverage began	$0 for the post and abutment; $0 for the whole tooth if it was missing when coverage began (the extract we read doesn’t say how an implant crown is paid otherwise)	$4,000 if the tooth was missing when coverage began

Rules to look for in your own plan:

• An implant cap. Delta Dental’s 2026 federal brochure applies its High Option’s $2,500 implant limit to the post, abutment, crown and implant-supported dentures together (p. 34). GEHA’s 2026 federal brochure has the same $2,500 yearly implant limit ($2,000 out of network on its Standard Option).
• A cheaper-alternative rule (also called the alternate benefit or LEAT, least expensive alternative treatment). Delta’s federal brochure says implants “may be reimbursed as an alternative benefit as a three-unit fixed partial denture”, that is, paid as if you’d had a bridge (p. 34). MetLife’s 2026 federal brochure allows no benefit for the implant itself if its dental consultants find “an arch can be restored with a standard prosthesis or restoration”; only the later crown, bridge or denture stage may then be paid under its cheaper-alternative rule (p. 36).
• A waiting period, months of coverage before major work is paid. Separate dental plans “can have waiting periods before they start to cover services for adults”, healthcare.gov says; the three 2026 federal brochures we read have none.
• A missing tooth clause, refusing to replace a tooth lost before your coverage started, as in the Cigna contract above. Our missing tooth clause page shows the wording.
• The year’s maximum. Post and crown can be months apart and may fall in different plan years; which year pays depends on the plan’s date rule (Delta’s brochure dates a crown by the day it is cemented).

To run your own numbers, enter the fee, your coinsurance, deductible and maximum left in the dental insurance out-of-pocket calculator. Our page on whether dental insurance covers implants goes deeper. A pre-treatment estimate from your plan, sent by the dentist’s office before work starts, decides what the plan will pay.

Medicare, Medicaid and tax accounts

Medicare. “In most cases, Medicare doesn’t cover dental services like routine cleanings, fillings, tooth extractions (removals), or items like dentures and implants,” medicare.gov says (read 11 November 2026). The rule behind it, 42 CFR 411.15(i) (eCFR, up to date as of 9 November 2026), excludes dental services “in connection with the care, treatment, filling, removal, or replacement of teeth”, with two exceptions: the inpatient hospital stay, not the dental work itself, when hospitalization is needed because of your medical condition or the severity of the dental procedure; and dental services “inextricably linked to” certain covered medical treatment, such as an exam and treatment of a mouth infection before a heart valve replacement or an organ transplant, along with the X-rays, anesthesia and other services that go with that covered dental work. The linked list was written into the rule for 2023 and widened for 2024 and 2025; implants for an ordinary missing tooth are not on it. Our page on whether Medicare covers dental lists the linked services and the year each was added. If you have a Medicare Advantage plan with dental, its evidence of coverage decides what it pays for implants.

Medicaid. Adult dental benefits are set state by state: “There are no minimum requirements for adult dental coverage,” medicaid.gov says. In the ADA Health Policy Institute’s December 2025 data tables (data as of August 2025), 38 states and DC were at its broadest level of adult benefit, six had limited benefits, five covered emergencies only, and Alabama had none. HPI’s broadest level means at least diagnostic, preventive and restorative care with a yearly limit of $1,000 or more, or no limit; it doesn’t mean implants are covered. Ask your state Medicaid agency, and see Medicaid dental for adults by state. Children’s rules are different: medicaid.gov says Medicaid covers dental services for all child enrollees, and a separate CHIP program must cover dental services needed to prevent disease, restore teeth and treat emergencies; your state agency says what that includes.

Taxes and accounts. IRS Publication 502 (for 2025 returns) counts dental treatment and artificial teeth as medical expenses, deductible only if you itemize and only the part above 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. Money in a health savings account or a health flexible spending account can pay for qualified dental costs tax free; the 2026 contribution limits are $4,400 self-only and $8,750 family for an HSA (Rev. Proc. 2025-19) and $3,400 for a health FSA (Rev. Proc. 2025-32). More in dental expenses, HSAs, FSAs and taxes.

Paying over time

Many offices offer a medical credit card or a payment plan for implant work. Read the terms before signing: on many “0% interest” promotions the interest is deferred, not waived. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s May 2023 report found that if the balance isn’t paid in full by the end of the promotion, interest can be charged back to the purchase date, at a typical medical credit card rate of 26.99%. CareCredit, a medical credit card issuer, says its purchase rate for new accounts is 32.99% (its provider page, read 11 November 2026). The dental loan and deferred-interest calculator shows the monthly payment that clears a balance before a promotion ends; our dental financing guide compares the types of credit without naming a pick.

Before you agree to a quote

• Ask the dentist’s office for a written treatment plan with each procedure, its code number and its fee; whether the quoted price includes the abutment and the crown; what is billed by another office (a surgeon, a lab, an imaging center); and whether follow-up visits are included.
• Ask your plan for a pre-treatment estimate, how much of this year’s maximum is left, whether a waiting period, an implant cap, a cheaper-alternative rule or a missing tooth clause applies, and which plan year each stage will count in.
• Before signing a credit agreement, find the date the promotion ends, the rate after it and whether interest is deferred.
• If cost is the barrier, federally funded health centers must offer preventive dental care (42 USC 254b) and discount fees by income (42 CFR 51c.303(f)); find one near you; many offer more, so ask. Dental school clinics are another route. See free and low-cost dental care.

Comparing the long-run cost of an implant, a bridge and a denture is on our lifetime cost comparison, and one tooth in more detail on our single-tooth implant cost page.

Sources checked on 11 November 2026. Published prices change; we recheck these figures at least once a year and dental price data every quarter. Corrections: see our corrections page.