Cost of Dental Implants

Hello, I'm Dr. Ramsey Amin, Burbank Dental Implants. So, a big question about dental implants is the cost. What's the average cost? What's the price of this procedure? What can I expect? What's a range? It's a very difficult question to answer, and it's got a lot to do with you and the dentist that you choose to do this. So, it's a wide range. Let's talk about single teeth all the way to the cost of all on four full mouth dental implants, or just the cost to replace a single tooth, or what the average is.
So, remember that you're replacing a body part! You're replacing a body part with a prosthetic replacement. A lot can go wrong, actually! For the most part, a screw goes into the bone. It replaces a tooth, right? So sometimes, we're replacing just the tooth. Sometimes, we're replacing part of the tooth and part of the gum. And other times, we're replacing part of the tooth, part of the gum, and part of the bone. So, there's differences in what the goal is to achieve so you don't end up with a really long tooth that looks like a snaggle tooth that doesn't look right.
Keep in mind that 30% to 35%, of what I do is redo dental implants. I hate to say it, but they don't last forever, and there's a lot of misinformation out there, that it's permanent. People say permanent because you don't have to take them out unless they're an overdenture, which you do have to take in and out. But, permanent means that they don't have to come in and out, but permanent lasting a lifetime ... Well, that depends on your age. So, the bottom line, just like anything in life, you get what you pay for, right?
I'm not the most expensive guy. I'm not the cheapest guy. But, I've had a lot of experience in this. I use an excellent lab. I make certain that the implant is in the proper position in the bone, for sure, and that it has enough gum and enough bone around it to last for a long time. And you also have to manage the way the tooth is made, how the bite comes together, the materials, because there's multiple points for failure, not just in the bone or in the gum. So, price of an implant, it can vary anywhere from $3,000 per tooth to upwards of $10,000 per tooth. Some teeth are very simple and just require no bone grafting, not even open the gum. Just go right through the gum, and others require extensive amount of stages over time
Sometimes, in some of my cases, I do all of that at once. Bone graft, extraction, implant, gum graft, and teeth all together. So, that requires a higher level of skill, training, a staff that can support, and a facility that has the ability to keep you safe during a long procedure, like an all on four. That's typically anywhere from a three to six hour procedure, depending on difficulty, whether we need zygomatic dental implants that go into the cheek bone, or into the pterygoid. It goes back to the upper wisdom teeth. So, and then it comes down to cost of materials and where you're having treatment done, right? Just because you might be in Beverly Hills doesn't mean it should be more expensive than somewhere in the middle of our great country.
It often just has to do with experience. So, that's really what it comes down to. The care, so the desire to make it right, no matter what. Using good products and good bones, good membranes, help get a great result because even though you might be happy that you paid very little for an implant, you may be very upset to see in three to seven years that it's losing bone. It's got like the red shelling. We have what's called peri-implantitis. So, this is where we see big variations in costs, where a single tooth implant may be $3,000, or it may be $10,000. Also on the full arch procedure, it can be as low as $20,000. It can be as much as $70,000 for a single arch, just one jaw. Again, depending on the complexity and materials, experience, this is not something you want to go cheap on.
There's a lot of, billboard ads. They have a dental implant for $399. Like credit cards with 0% percent interest. It's something just to bait you with, like a marketing ploy!
And then, they have a bunch of add on procedures. Oh, well, that's actually for the implant itself. That doesn't actually include us putting it in, and then we have to get you numb. And then, we have to charge you to open your gum. They start to stack on what we call "bundling of fees" to make the implant more expensive , because if you're seeing these ... If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.