Prices

How to read the fees

What a dental estimate in Los Algodones includes

The table above is a price guide for dental care in Los Algodones, written in U.S. dollars. Use it to see which treatment you are actually comparing. A single zirconia crown, a root canal, and an All-on-4 full arch are not three sizes of the same thing.

An estimate is not the bill

Every figure on this page is an estimate. The fee you pay is the one written after a dentist has examined you. Records you send ahead, X-rays, photos, or a plan from home, let us tell you whether the table even applies. They cannot show a crack, a loose tooth, or gum disease that changes the plan. When the exam changes the plan, the estimate is rewritten before treatment.

Quotes and bills are in U.S. dollars. If a line says “from” or gives a range, the width of that range is the part we cannot know without seeing you. Comparing our implant estimate with a crown estimate from another clinic will not tell you anything useful.

One tooth, one arch, one mouth

Read the row name before the price. A single dental implant is one titanium post, the parts that connect it, and the crown on that one tooth, as the row describes. A zirconia crown is a crown on a tooth you still have. A veneer is a facing on a front tooth. A complete denture replaces a full arch of teeth without implants. An All-on-4 is a full arch fixed to four implants. Mixing those rows is the most common way to misunderstand a Los Algodones price list.

Why a full arch is not four single implants

An All-on-4 or All-on-6 fee is for a full-arch prosthesis on several implants: the surgery, the provisional steps the plan includes, and the final bridge, as those lines are written. It is not four or six times the single-implant fee, and it does not silently include every extraction, every graft, or the opposing arch. “Full mouth dental implants” means upper and lower. Ask for both arches to be priced if that is the question you came with. The services guide explains how those plans differ from a denture.

Separate lines, on purpose

A cleaning is not included in an implant. A root canal is not included in a crown. A graft is not included in “implant” unless the line says so. Whitening is not included in veneers. We split them so you can refuse a line without refusing the whole plan. If two items have to be done together for the tooth to last, the dentist says that in the note, and you can still decline and leave the tooth as it is.

The U.S. comparison

The U.S. column is there because patients ask what the same treatment costs at home. It is a comparison with fees people are commonly quoted in the United States, not a bill from a particular office and not a guarantee of what you will save. Your dentist at home may be higher or lower. Insurance, which many of these procedures only partly cover, is not subtracted in that column.

The reason fees in Los Algodones are often lower is ordinary: rent, wages, and laboratory costs are different from those in Arizona or California. It is not because the implant is a different object, and it is not a reason to skip the exam. A lower fee for the wrong treatment is not a saving. If a tooth can be kept with a root canal and a crown, we would rather say that than sell an implant.

What changes the fee

The number moves when the mouth is more complicated than the label. A crown on a front tooth needs a shade visit that a back tooth may not. An implant in a site that has been missing for years may need a graft. A full arch may need several extractions first. A root canal may reveal a crack that means the tooth cannot be saved. None of that is a surprise fee if it is written down before we start. It is a surprise only if it appears after you have already agreed.

What we put in writing

Before you travel for anything beyond an exam, ask for the plan in writing: the teeth involved, the material, the number of visits, what is not included, and the fee in dollars. Bring that paper, or the email, to the appointment. If the chair-side conversation adds a procedure, it should be added to the paper too. The way to pay is part of the same conversation. Ask when you book, not at the end of the visit. Phone (928) 683-5725 or use the contact form.

Ask for a written estimate