Replacing teeth is priced per implant post, per finished tooth, per arch (all the teeth in one jaw) or per full mouth, which is why published figures look so far apart. For one finished implant tooth, most estimates we read on 11 November 2026 sit between about $2,800 and $7,500: Delta Dental, an insurer, gives $2,800 to $5,600 (its 2022 internal data) and Guardian, another insurer, $3,000 to $7,500 (updated 29 January 2026). Four published estimates put one conventional full denture at about $1,115 to $3,845. This guide explains what each price measures and points to the page that goes through it.
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.
Every page here compares money and time only; whether an implant, a bridge or a denture suits you is your dentist’s call. We show named, dated estimates side by side and never average them. Start where you are:
- You have a quote for one implant tooth.
- You have a quote for a full arch or a full mouth.
- You are pricing dentures, full, partial or snap-on.
- You are holding several options side by side.
- You want to know what insurance, Medicare or Medicaid pays.
One implant tooth
The US Food and Drug Administration describes dental implants as medical devices surgically placed in the jaw that support artificial teeth such as crowns, bridges or dentures (FDA, content current as of 29 October 2021). One implant tooth is usually at least three lines on a treatment plan: the post in the jaw (D6010), the connector called an abutment (D6056 ready-made or D6057 custom-made) and the crown (for example D6058). Code numbers are from the CDT Code, maintained by the American Dental Association; the descriptions here are our own.
A low published figure often prices only one of these lines: CareCredit, a lender that finances dental work, gives a $2,143 average for a single implant (Synchrony’s 2024 survey) and says it doesn’t include the crown. A phone survey of 278 practices in six US cities, published by the trade journal Dental Economics on 1 February 2026, found a median quote of $4,000 for the whole tooth. Our dental implant cost guide sets the named sources side by side, from one tooth to a full mouth; the single-tooth implant cost page checks one tooth line by line.
To add up your own case, the implant cost estimator sums the published low and high price for each part on your treatment plan, each named and dated, then works out what a plan may pay and what is left for you. It gives a range, never one price, and never picks between types of work.
Grafts and other extra lines
A quote may add an extraction, a scan, sedation or a bone graft. A socket graft after an extraction, billed per site as D7953, is published at $652 to $1,790 by Pearl, a dental software company (May 2026), and CareCredit, a lender (7 February 2025); only two published sources were found. A sinus lift (D7951 or D7952) runs about $1,200 to $3,900 across Pearl, CareCredit’s 2024 survey table and Delta Dental of Oregon’s PPO fee schedule (effective 1 August 2024). The dental bone graft cost page shows which graft is which and how 2026 plans treat each.
A full arch or a full mouth
For a whole jaw, the work is billed per arch. A fixed set of teeth on implants, often sold as All-on-4, is D6114 (upper) or D6115 (lower), and each implant post is its own D6010 line. No code says four implants or six, so count the D6010 lines on a quote.
Published estimates for a fixed arch on four implants run from $11,640, the bottom of CareCredit’s range (a lender; average $15,176; article 24 April 2026, 2024 survey; arch not stated), to $38,610, the top of Pearl’s modelled per-arch range ($14,720 to $38,610, May 2026). For six implants we found one US figure, $29,980 from the same lender, with no second source. The full-arch implants page (All-on-4 and All-on-6) sets out the sources and what a quote includes line by line.
“Full mouth” can mean two fixed arches, two snap-on dentures or an implant for nearly every tooth. Doubling Pearl’s per-arch range gives $29,440 to $77,220 for both jaws (our arithmetic), and Penn Dental Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania’s dental school clinics, says a full mouth of implant teeth costs “at least $60,000” (24 June 2025). The full-mouth dental implants page sorts out what each price covers.
Dentures: full, partial and snap-on
MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine’s health site, says: “Dentures are false teeth made to replace teeth you have lost. They can be complete or partial” (MedlinePlus, “Dentures”). Each denture code is one jaw: a full upper is usually billed as D5110 and a full lower as D5120, so a full set is two.
Delta Dental, an insurer, puts dentists’ full billed fees at $1,220 to $2,540 for an upper denture and $1,115 to $2,425 for a lower one (2024 internal data). Pearl’s modelled guide gives $1,465 to $3,845 per arch for a full upper (May 2026), and CareCredit, a lender, gives $2,022 for a traditional full denture without stating the arch (14 August 2026). The dentures cost page has the published sources side by side and a worked example with extractions.
A removable partial replaces some teeth in a jaw, and its price follows what it is made of. Three sources (CareCredit, a lender; Humana, an insurer, Orlando only; and Pearl, a dental software company; dated May to August 2026) put a metal-framework partial (D5213 upper, D5214 lower) at $1,250 to $3,717. For a flexible one (D5225, D5226) and a plastic-based one (D5211, D5212) only two published sources were found, CareCredit and Humana: $1,296 to $2,916 and $1,335 to $2,873. The partial dentures cost page shows the code for each kind.
A snap-on denture is a removable denture for a whole jaw held by implants (D6110 upper, D6111 lower). Its published figures run from $1,886, the low end of CareCredit’s range (a lender; $1,886 to $4,124, average $2,540, 14 August 2026, inclusions unclear), to over $11,000 for two implants and the denture at Temple University’s faculty practice, as its chair of restorative dentistry told WebMD (about $2,800 at the dental school; medically reviewed 1 July 2025). Healthline, citing the Academy of General Dentistry, gives $5,000 to $10,000 (updated 24 June 2024). Some low figures may not include the implants. A “permanent” denture fixed to implants is the same D6114 or D6115 work as a full arch. The snap-on and permanent dentures page separates the two bills.
Comparing options over the years
With more than one option on the table, the cost also depends on how many times each is paid for. For one missing tooth, Delta Dental gives $2,800 to $5,600 for an implant and $3,600 for a three-unit bridge; for a whole arch, Pearl’s $22,590 fixed-arch average equals about ten full dentures at its own $2,250 average (our arithmetic). How long any option lasts is a clinical question we don’t answer, so the implants vs bridge vs dentures lifetime cost page shows totals if each is paid for once, twice or three times. Bridge prices alone are on the dental bridge cost page.
What plans, Medicare and Medicaid pay
Dental plans differ most on implants. In the documents we read, Delta Dental’s 2026 federal employees’ plan (High Option, in network) pays half of major work but caps implants at $2,500 a person a year and may pay an implant as if it were a bridge; a 2025 Cigna contract in Colorado excludes placing the implant post and won’t pay to replace teeth missing when coverage began, a rule known as the missing tooth clause. Does dental insurance cover implants? goes through the plan rules, and the dental insurance out-of-pocket calculator works your own figures. Deductibles, coinsurance and yearly maximums are explained in how dental insurance works.
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 narrow exceptions are on does Medicare cover dental. Medicaid: “There are no minimum requirements for adult dental coverage” (medicaid.gov), so your state agency says what it covers; see Medicaid dental for adults by state.
Paying over time: on many “0% interest” medical credit card promotions the interest is deferred, not waived; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s May 2023 report found it can be charged back to the purchase date, at a typical 26.99%. See the dental financing guide. If cost is the barrier, federally funded health centers discount fees by income (42 CFR 51c.303(f)); find one near you, or see free and low-cost dental care.
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, and what another office or a lab bills.
- Ask your plan for a pre-treatment estimate, how much of this year’s maximum is left, and whether a waiting period, an implant cap, a cheaper-alternative rule or the missing tooth clause applies.
- Before signing a credit agreement, find the date the promotion ends, the rate after it and whether interest is deferred.
Sources checked on 11 November 2026, as cited on each page linked above. Published prices change; corrections are listed on our corrections page.
