Dental Implant Cost Estimator

Published estimates for one finished implant tooth (the implant post, the connector on top called an abutment, and the crown) mostly fall between about $2,800 and $7,500 before insurance: Delta Dental, an insurer, gives $2,800 to $5,600 based on its 2022 internal data, Guardian, another insurer, gives $3,000 to $7,500, and a phone survey of 278 practices in six cities, done in September 2025 and published in February 2026, found a median quote of $4,000. When you add up the published low and high price for each part separately, the spread is wider: about $2,465 to $10,063 for one tooth, before any extraction or bone graft. The estimator above does that sum for your own case, part by part, and then works out what a dental plan may pay and what is left for you. It is one of our guides to implant and denture costs.

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.

The estimator never gives one price and never picks between an implant crown, an implant bridge, a fixed full arch or a snap-on denture: your dentist decides what is clinically suitable for you. It prices the work that is on your written treatment plan, using ranges that other people published, each named and dated below. The result is a range to hold your quote against, not a quote.

How to use the estimator

1. What is being replaced and the type of work. Copy these from your treatment plan. One tooth takes an implant and crown. Several teeth take either an implant and crown for each tooth or an implant bridge (false teeth held by implants at the ends). A full arch (all the teeth in the upper or lower jaw) takes either a fixed full-arch denture held on 4 to 6 implants or a removable snap-on denture on 2 to 4 implants. The tool refuses a mix that doesn’t fit, such as a full-arch denture for one tooth.
2. Extractions and bone grafts. Enter how many teeth are to be removed in a simple extraction and how many sites get a bone graft, if your plan lists them. Leave them at 0 if a full-arch quote already includes them.
3. Quoted extras. A surgical extraction, a 3D scan, sedation, a sinus lift or temporary teeth: enter the price from your quote. We found too few published figures to give a range for these (see what the tool leaves out).
4. Your plan. Tick the box only if your plan pays for implants at all. Then enter the share it pays, the deductible you still have to meet this year and the annual maximum left. The defaults are one real example: Delta Dental’s 2026 federal employees’ plan, High Option, in network.

As the Food and Drug Administration describes them, dental implants are medical devices surgically placed in the jaw that support artificial teeth such as crowns, bridges or dentures (FDA, “Dental Implants: What You Should Know”, content current as of 29 October 2021). Everything else on this page is about money.

Published estimates side by side

No government agency publishes what US dentists charge for implants. The figures below are published estimates from insurers, a lender and a trade journal survey. They measure different things, so we show them side by side and don’t average them. Every one of these publishers has a reason to lean, which the last column names.

Source (who publishes it)	Figure	Unit and what it includes	Date	May lean because
Delta Dental Plans Association (insurer)	$2,800 to $5,600	One tooth, without dental benefits; the page says the price typically includes placing the implant, the supporting structures for the crown and the crown	Based on 2022 Delta Dental internal data; no page date; read 11 Nov 2026	An insurer that sells plans paying part of implant costs; its own data, method not given
Dental Economics (trade journal; Koo and Mai)	Median $4,000; middle half of quotes $3,000 to $5,125	One tooth: implant, abutment and crown, quoted by phone by 278 practices in Houston, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver and Philadelphia in September 2025	1 Feb 2026	Six large cities only; the lead author runs an oral surgery practice, and the survey found specialists’ median ($3,400) below general dentists’ ($4,800)
Guardian Life (insurer)	$3,000 to $7,500	One tooth: post, abutment and crown	Updated 29 Jan 2026	Second-hand, from one New York City practice’s price guide: a high-cost market
CareCredit (a lender that finances dental work; Synchrony)	$1,646 to $4,157; average $2,143	The post and placing it only: its implant cost guide (14 Mar 2025) says the figure doesn’t include the crown	2024 Synchrony cost study; article 20 Feb 2026	Sells financing for this work; a survey it commissioned

CareCredit, a lender that finances dental work, publishes two national averages from the same survey: $2,143 for placing the implant post, without the crown, and $4,344 for a “standard” endosteal implant per tooth on its main cost table, without saying what that second figure includes. The two conflict, and neither is the price of a finished tooth. The estimator uses CareCredit only alongside at least one other published source for a part, never on its own.

For a full arch, the published figures are much further apart, and only a few were found: two published sources for a fixed full arch, and three for a snap-on denture, which disagree mostly about what they include:

Work	Source (who publishes it)	Figure	Unit, date and what it says it includes
Fixed full-arch denture on implants	CareCredit (lender)	$11,640 to $27,500; average $15,176	“All-on-4”; doesn’t say per arch or both; 2024 study, article 24 Apr 2026
Fixed full-arch denture on implants	Pearl (dental software company; modelled estimate)	$14,720 to $38,610; average $22,590	Priced on a per-arch billing code; its typical quote lists a 3D scan, extractions, four implants, temporary teeth, sedation and the final bridge; bone grafts billed apart; updated May 2026
Snap-on denture on implants	CareCredit (lender)	$1,886 to $4,124; average $2,540	Doesn’t say per arch, or whether the implants are included; 2026 Synchrony study, article 14 Aug 2026
Snap-on denture on implants	WebMD (health site), quoting the chair of restorative dentistry at Temple University’s dental school	About $2,800 at dental school prices; can be over $11,000 at the school’s faculty practice	Two implants plus the denture (one arch); dental-school fees are below market; medically reviewed 1 Jul 2025
Snap-on denture on implants	Healthline (health site), citing the Academy of General Dentistry	$5,000 to $10,000	Snap-in dentures; doesn’t say per arch; second-hand from an AGD news item (2022); updated 24 Jun 2024

“All-on-4” is a name for one way of doing this work, not a billing code: the code numbers for a fixed full arch go by arch, not by the number of implants. More on these figures in our pages on full-mouth implant costs and the main dental implant cost guide.

What the price includes, part by part

A treatment plan lists each step on its own line with a code number, and so does the explanation of benefits your plan sends afterwards. The table gives each part in our own words, its code number, the published low-to-high range the estimator uses and whether it is often billed apart. For the exam, the abutment, a simple extraction and a socket graft, only two published sources were found; for a surgical extraction only one published range was found, so the estimator doesn’t price it. Code numbers are from the CDT Code, maintained by the American Dental Association; the descriptions here are our own.

Part (our words)	Code	Range used	Sources (date)	Often billed apart?
Full exam for a new patient	D0150	$65 to $165	Pearl $65 to $165 (May 2026); MetLife $112 in one Philadelphia ZIP code (Apr 2026, a single figure). Only two published sources were found	Yes
Panoramic X-ray	D0330	$100 to $343	MetLife $100 to $250 (Sep 2025); CareCredit $157 to $343 (Jan 2025); Humana up to $160 in Orlando (Jun 2026, one city)	Yes
Implant post placed in the jaw	D6010	$1,000 to $5,255	MetLife $1,000 to $3,000 (Sep 2025); Dental Economics middle half $2,180 to $3,000 (Feb 2026); CareCredit $1,646 to $4,157 (Feb 2026); Pearl $2,005 to $5,255 (May 2026)	Sometimes quoted together with the abutment and crown
Abutment, stock or custom	D6056 / D6057	$500 to $1,300	MetLife $500 to $1,000 (Sep 2025); Dental Economics custom abutment middle half $800 to $1,300 (Feb 2026). Only two published sources were found	Often billed with the crown
Crown on the implant, on an abutment or fixed straight to the implant	D6058 / D6065	$800 to $3,000	MetLife $800 to $3,000 (Sep 2025); Guardian $1,000 to $2,000 or more (Jan 2026)	Yes, sometimes by a different dentist
Simple extraction, per tooth	D7140	$137 to $450	CareCredit $137 to $335 (Sep 2024); Pearl $170 to $450 (May 2026); Humana $225 in Orlando (Jun 2026, one city). Only two published ranges were found	Yes
Surgical extraction, per tooth	D7210	Not priced: enter your quote	Only one published range was found, from CareCredit, a lender that finances dental work: $281 to $702 (Sep 2024); Humana $325 in Orlando (Jun 2026, one city)	Yes
Bone graft in the socket, per site	D7953	$652 to $1,790	CareCredit donor-bone graft $652 to $1,575 (Feb 2025); Pearl $680 to $1,790 (May 2026). Only two published sources were found	Yes

For full-arch work the estimator doesn’t add parts. It uses the per-arch figures in the table above, because they are published as one package: a fixed full-arch denture on implants (usually billed as D6114 for the upper arch or D6115 for the lower) runs $11,640 to $38,610 per arch, and a snap-on denture on implants (D6110 upper, D6111 lower) $1,886 to $11,000 per arch. We read CareCredit’s All-on-4 figure as per arch, as Pearl’s is; that is our reading, because CareCredit doesn’t say. The snap-on range runs from CareCredit’s low end, which says neither whether it is per arch nor whether the implants are included, to the figure quoted for Temple’s faculty practice, which covers two implants and the denture and says fees there can be higher. Treating the range as per arch is our reading, so the low end for snap-on work may leave out parts your quote lists, and a quote above $11,000 is not out of line.

For an implant bridge only one published figure was found, from CareCredit, a lender that finances dental work: an average of $5,195 for an implant-supported bridge (2024 study, article 27 September 2024, number of teeth not stated). So the estimator builds a bridge from its parts instead: the exam and X-ray, the implant posts and abutments you enter, and one unit for each tooth the bridge replaces, priced like a crown on an implant ($800 to $3,000). Pricing each bridge tooth like an implant crown is our assumption.

A worked example

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.

The estimator opens on one tooth, an implant and crown, no extraction or graft, and a plan like Delta Dental’s 2026 federal High Option used in network. That plan lists the implant post (D6010) under its major (Class C) services, where you pay 50% in network; it has no in-network deductible; and it limits implant benefits to $2,500 a person a year (Delta Dental’s Federal Employees Dental Program 2026 brochure, pp. 15, 16 and 31).

Line	Low end	High end
New-patient exam (D0150)	$65	$165
Panoramic X-ray (D0330)	$100	$343
Implant post (D6010)	$1,000	$5,255
Abutment (D6056 or D6057)	$500	$1,300
Crown on the implant (D6058 or D6065)	$800	$3,000
Before insurance	$2,465	$10,063
Plan pays 50% after a $0 deductible	$1,232.50	$5,031.50, cut to the $2,500 left
Your share	$1,232.50	$7,563

The part-by-part range ($2,465 to $10,063) is wider than any single published finished-tooth range because it stacks the lowest low and the highest high of every part. A real bill seldom has every part at one extreme, which is why the finished-tooth figures in the first table sit inside it. Read the result as the outer limits of what was published, and set your quote’s own lines against each part.

Two more cases from the estimator’s own checks. A three-tooth implant bridge on two implants, with one simple extraction and two graft sites and no insurance: $7,006 to $26,648. One fixed full arch with a plan paying 50% after a $50 deductible and $1,500 of maximum left: $11,640 to $38,610 before insurance, the plan pays $1,500 at either end, and your share is $10,140 to $37,110.

Why quotes differ so much

• What the number includes. CareCredit’s $2,143 is the post alone; Delta’s range includes the crown; Pearl’s full-arch quote list includes extractions and sedation, while CareCredit doesn’t say. Ask which lines your quote covers before comparing it with any figure.
• Per tooth, per arch or both arches. Full-arch figures are per arch unless a source says otherwise; two arches roughly double them, and some sources don’t say which they mean.
• Who does the work. In the Dental Economics survey, specialists’ median quote for one tooth was $3,400 and general dentists’ $4,800. Sometimes the surgery and the crown are done by two offices, with two bills.
• Where you live and when the figure was gathered. Guardian’s range comes from one New York City practice; Delta’s is from 2022 data. Dental prices were 6.0% higher in September 2026 than a year earlier (BLS consumer price index for dental services, series CUUR0000SEMC02).
• Extra steps. Extractions, bone grafts, a 3D scan, sedation and temporary teeth are often on separate lines.
• In or out of network. A network dentist has agreed a fee with the plan; out of network you may owe the difference between the plan’s allowance and the dentist’s fee.

What people actually paid is another check. In the federal Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for 2023, dental visits that included implant work had a median total payment of $1,500 per visit and a mean of $2,402, and about 70% of what was paid on those visits came out of patients’ own pockets (our tabulation of AHRQ’s MEPS 2023 dental visits file, 155 visits in the sample). A visit is not the whole treatment: an implant usually takes several.

With insurance: how the plan’s share is worked out

The estimator takes each end of the range, subtracts the deductible you still owe, multiplies by the share your plan pays, and stops at the annual maximum left. It applies one rate to the whole range, which is a simplification: plans often put exams, X-rays and extractions in cheaper classes than implants, and pay a percentage of their own allowed amount rather than of the dentist’s fee. For one procedure at a time, with in-network and out-of-network fees, waiting periods and the cheaper-alternative rule, use the dental insurance out-of-pocket calculator. How dental insurance works explains each term.

Whether a plan pays for implants at all varies by plan. These are real plan documents we read, given as examples, not as typical terms:

• Delta Dental’s 2026 federal plan (FEDVIP), High Option: implants are limited to $2,500 a person a calendar year, which counts toward the annual maximum; the Standard Option has no separate implant limit but a $1,500 annual maximum in network (2026 brochure, p. 16).
• GEHA Connection Dental Federal, 2026: implant benefits are limited to $2,500 a calendar year ($2,000 on the Standard Option out of network), and a replacement implant is covered only 5 years after the first (2026 brochure, p. 30).
• The MetLife Federal Dental Plan, 2026: an implant is covered only if the plan’s dental consultants find it a dental necessity, and nothing is paid for it if they decide the arch can be restored with a standard prosthesis (2026 brochure, p. 36).
• Delta Dental of Iowa’s 2027 individual Platinum Prime policy: implants are paid only after you have been covered for 12 months (earlier dental coverage with no gap over 63 days can count), you pay 60% at a PPO dentist, and the plan pays up to $2,000 a year (policy form INDPLATPR-012027, pp. 6 and 10).
• Cigna’s Colorado Dental 1000 contract (2025 form): the initial placement of an implant is excluded, and there is no payment for replacing teeth that were missing when the person first became insured (evidence of coverage extract, p. 18). That second rule is a missing tooth clause.

The three 2026 federal brochures also say the plan may pay only for a cheaper covered treatment when more than one would work, and leave the difference to you. Ask your plan for a pre-treatment estimate before the work starts: it is the plan’s own reading of your treatment plan.

Original Medicare excludes “dental services in connection with the care, treatment, filling, removal, or replacement of teeth, or structures directly supporting the teeth” (42 CFR 411.15(i)(1), eCFR up to date as of 9 November 2026). Paragraph (i)(3) of the same rule says dental services “inextricably linked to, and substantially related and integral to the clinical success of, a certain covered medical service are not excluded”; the cases it lists, written in by rules that took effect on 1 January 2023, 2024 and 2025, include an exam and infection treatment before an organ transplant or heart valve replacement, and dental care around head and neck cancer treatment. Medicare.gov says that in most cases Medicare doesn’t cover items like dentures and implants (medicare.gov, Dental services, read 11 November 2026). If you have a Medicare Advantage plan, its evidence of coverage decides. The detail is in does Medicare cover dental?

What the tool leaves out

• Surgical extraction (D7210). Only one published range was found, from CareCredit, a lender that finances dental work: $281 to $702 a tooth (2024 study, posted 27 September 2024), plus Humana’s $325 for Orlando only (updated 1 June 2026). Enter your quote under quoted extras.
• 3D cone beam scan (D0367). Only one published range was found, from CareCredit, a lender: $361 to $879 (2024 study, posted 31 January 2025). Enter your quote.
• Sedation or general anesthesia. Published prices depend on the kind of sedation and on how long it lasts (Pearl, updated May 2026). The tool doesn’t price it: enter your quote.
• Sinus lifts and block bone grafts (D7951, D7952, D7950). Too few published figures: enter your quote. More in our bone graft cost guide.
• Temporary teeth, follow-up visits, repairs and replacement later. Not priced here.
• Fees that FAIR Health publishes by zip code. Its terms don’t allow us to copy its figures, but you can look up your area yourself on FAIR Health’s dental cost lookup.

The formula

• One tooth, or an implant and crown for each of several teeth: exam + panoramic X-ray + (post + abutment + crown) for each tooth.
• Implant bridge: exam + panoramic X-ray + (post + abutment) for each implant you enter + one crown-priced unit for each tooth replaced.
• Full arch: the per-arch range times 1 or 2 arches.
• Add-ons, for every type: simple extractions x $137 to $450 + graft sites x $652 to $1,790 + quoted extras (including any surgical extraction).
• Plan’s likely share: (each end – deductible left) x your plan’s share, but never more than the annual maximum left. Your share is the end of the range minus the plan’s share.

Each low end uses the lowest published low for that part and each high end the highest published high. How we pick and label figures is set out in how we estimate costs.

Next steps

• Ask the dentist’s office for a written treatment plan with each procedure and its code number, what the fee for each line includes, what is billed apart (scan, extraction, graft, sedation, temporary teeth), and whether the crown is made or fitted by another office.
• Ask your plan for a pre-treatment estimate, how much of this year’s maximum is left, whether implants are covered, and whether a waiting period or a missing tooth clause applies.
• If the price is out of reach, federally funded health centers must offer discounts on a sliding fee scale by income (42 CFR 51c.303(f); find one at findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov), and dental schools run patient clinics; more in free and low-cost dental care.
• Before signing a credit agreement, check when any promotion ends, the interest rate after it and whether interest is deferred back to the purchase date. Our guide to dental financing covers payment plans, medical credit cards and loans.
• Tax-free accounts: HSA and FSA money can pay qualifying dental work, and IRS Publication 502 (2025) counts artificial teeth as medical expenses; see dental expenses, HSAs, FSAs and taxes.

Sources checked on 11 November 2026. Price figures are published estimates, read on that date; we recheck them at least once a year and when a source updates.