About Dental Cost by State
Radif Partners reads the dental fee schedules that state Medicaid programs publish, code by code, and scales each fee with the state's own published ratio between Medicaid pay and what dentists charge, to estimate what an implant, crown, root canal or set of braces costs in that state before and after dental insurance. Every figure names its schedule, its effective date and its CDT code. The site sells no plan, refers no patient, offers no financing and asks for no contact details. It gives prices, never treatment advice.
The gap this site fills
Search for the cost of an implant, a crown or braces and the first pages are written by clinics, lenders and insurers. They give one national range, rarely say where it comes from or what year it describes, and end with a booking button or a credit application. A patient holding a quote cannot tell from them whether it is usual for the state, or how much of it a dental plan will really pay once the deductible and the yearly maximum are counted.
Price pages at the top of search results quote one national range with no source and then ask for an appointment or a credit application; this site prices each procedure for your state from that state's own published fee schedule, code by code, names and dates the document, and runs your plan's deductible, coinsurance, annual maximum and waiting period on the result.
Who publishes it
The site is published by Radif Partners, a company that builds calculators on public rules and public data. It is not a dental office, a dental association, an insurer, a discount plan, a lender or a referral service. It has no partner to send you to, receives no commission and carries no affiliate link.
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What we rely on
The dental fee schedules that 27 state Medicaid programs publish, each named and dated on its state page; the ratios of the American Dental Association Health Policy Institute between Medicaid fees, dentists' charges and private insurance payments in each state (2024 workbook); the Bureau of Labor Statistics price index for dental services (series CUUR0000SEMC02); the 2026 dental plan designs of Covered California for the example plan (board document); and the Federal Reserve's G.19 release for credit rates.
What the site leaves out
It gives prices, never treatment advice: whether a tooth should be saved, replaced or left alone is a question for a dentist. It does not quote your own office's fees, and it does not reproduce the commercial fee databases that dentists and insurers license. Brand-name aligner prices and procedures whose codes are missing from a state's schedule are not estimated. The method page lists every step and its limits; the editorial policy explains corrections.
Contact
contact@dentalcostbystate.com, for corrections and sources. We answer questions about a figure or a document, not about your own teeth or your own plan.