Dental costs in Connecticut: implants, crowns, braces and more
Connecticut's Medicaid dental schedule has changed several times since 2024; the estimates use its January 2024 edition, which puts a molar root canal at $3,262.
You pay for root canal, molar in Connecticut
$985
$1,920 billed, $935 paid by the plan.
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $3,262 |
| Estimated in-network price | $1,920 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $935 |
| Deductible | $50 |
| Connecticut Medicaid fee, same codes (2024) | $858 |
Estimate: Connecticut Medicaid fee ÷ 29.9 % (Medicaid pay as a share of dentists' charges, ADA HPI 2024). Brought to September 2026 with the dental services price index (BLS). Not a quote.
| CDT code | Service | Count | Medicaid fee, 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D3330 | Endodontic therapy, molar | 1 | $857.50 |
Compiled by Radif Partners · How prices are estimated · HUSKY Health dental (CT Medicaid/CHIP) - Connecticut Dental Health Partnership (CTDHP, DSS dental administrative services organization) fee schedule, ADA ratios of Connecticut · not a quote
A molar root canal is estimated at $3,262 in Connecticut, complete upper and lower dentures at $5,272, the removal of four impacted wisdom teeth at $3,709 and a checkup with cleaning and bitewing X-rays at $364, in September 2026 dollars before insurance. The figures divide the fees of HUSKY Health, the state's Medicaid and children's health program, by Connecticut's ratios from the ADA's 2024 study: Medicaid paid 29.9 % of what dentists charged for adult care and 47.0 % for children's care, one of the widest gaps between the two groups in the data. The schedule used is the edition of January 1, 2024, the one posted in July 2024 when the ADA collected its fees. Connecticut has revised its schedule since then, and the table below shows today's fee beside the 2024 one for every procedure.
Two columns that are converging
The HUSKY Health schedule, published by the Connecticut Dental Health Partnership, the administrator the state's social services department contracts for dental care, prints an adult column for members 21 and over and a children's column for those under 21. In the January 2024 edition the children's fee was often about half again as high as the adult fee for the same code: a periodic exam paid $23 for an adult and $34 for a child. That pattern matches the two ADA ratios, which put adult pay much further below dentists' charges than children's pay.
Since then the state has raised some adult fees to the children's level. In the edition read for this site the periodic exam pays $34 for adults as well as children, and 3 adult fees among the codes used here have moved since January 2024. A checkup that Medicaid paid $96 for in 2024 now pays $128. The estimates do not follow those increases, because the 2024 ratio was measured on the 2024 fees.
| CDT code | Adult fee, January 2024 | Adult fee today |
|---|---|---|
| D0120 | $23 | $34 |
| D0150 | $42 | $49 |
| D1110 | $42 | $63 |
A Connecticut procedure with your plan
You pay for root canal, molar in Connecticut
$985
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $3,262 |
| Estimated in-network price | $1,920 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $935 |
| Deductible | $50 |
What the site cannot price in Connecticut
A porcelain crown, code D2740, appears in the current schedule at $523 for adults but was not in the January 2024 edition, so there is no 2024 fee to divide and no crown estimate. Implants and fixed bridges are not in either edition. The site's outlier screen also withholds root canal, front tooth, root canal, premolar, braces, teen and deep cleaning (scaling and root planing): the Connecticut fees give estimates far from those of the other states, a sign that the program pays them on another basis. The state comparison lists which procedures each state allows.
For what remains, the result card names the schedule and the codes used. The dentures page compares complete and partial dentures across states, and the wisdom teeth page explains why four impacted teeth cost far more than four simple extractions.
Connecticut price list, procedure by procedure
| Procedure | Unit | Full fee | In network | Medicaid fee, 2024 | Medicaid fee today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Root canal, molar | per tooth | $3,262 | $1,920 | $858 | $858 |
| Full dentures, both arches | both arches | $5,272 | $3,102 | $1,386 | $1,386 |
| Full denture, one arch | one arch | $2,636 | $1,551 | $693 | $693 |
| Partial denture | one arch | $2,960 | $1,742 | $778 | $778 |
| Simple extraction | per tooth | $284 | $167 | $75 | $75 |
| Surgical extraction | per tooth | $495 | $291 | $130 | $130 |
| Wisdom teeth, four impacted | four teeth | $3,709 | $2,183 | $975 | $975 |
| Filling | per tooth | $282 | $166 | $74 | $74 |
| Checkup and cleaning | one visit | $364 | $214 | $96 | $128 |