Dental costs in Florida: implants, crowns, braces and more
Florida Medicaid pays dentists a smaller share of their charges for children's care than any other state measured by the ADA, so its modest fees stand for higher prices: a crown is estimated at $1,739.
You pay for crown in Florida
$486
$923 billed, $436 paid by the plan.
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $1,739 |
| Estimated in-network price | $923 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $436 |
| Deductible | $50 |
| Florida Medicaid fee, same codes (2024) | $340 |
Estimate: Florida Medicaid fee ÷ 22.2 % (Medicaid pay as a share of dentists' charges, ADA HPI 2024; Florida lists these codes for patients under 21 only, so its children's fees and children's ratio are used). Brought to September 2026 with the dental services price index (BLS). Not a quote.
| CDT code | Service | Count | Medicaid fee, 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D2740 | Crown, porcelain or ceramic | 1 | $340.37 |
Compiled by Radif Partners · How prices are estimated · Florida Medicaid - Dental General Services (fee-for-service) fee schedule, ADA ratios of Florida · not a quote
Florida's estimates put a porcelain crown at $1,739, a molar root canal at $1,792, braces for a teenager at $2,898 and complete upper and lower dentures at $3,181, in September 2026 dollars and before insurance. They come from the Florida Medicaid dental general fee schedule, which the state adopts by reference in its administrative code, divided by the ADA's 2024 ratio for Florida. That ratio is low: Medicaid paid 22.2 % of what dentists charged for children's care, the lowest share of all 51 jurisdictions, against 39.2 % nationally. The ADA gave no adult ratio for Florida, whose adult benefit it classed as emergency care, so every Florida estimate uses the children's ratio, and procedures that the schedule pays only for patients under 21 are priced from the children's column.
A children's schedule doing an adult's job
The Florida dental general fee schedule has a column for patients from birth to age 20 and one for those 21 and over. The adult column is short. In the edition in force in 2024 it carried fees for complete and partial dentures and for extractions, such as $311 for an upper denture against $463 in the children's column, but no fee for crowns, root canals or fillings. For those, the site uses the children's fee with the children's ratio, so that fee and ratio describe the same patients. In Florida that applies to crown, root canal, front tooth, root canal, premolar, root canal, molar, braces or aligners, adult, filling and checkup and cleaning. The result card says so each time.
Two caveats follow. A crown or root canal for an adult in Florida is priced from what dentists charge in general, which the ratio recovers, not from any Florida adult Medicaid payment. And the low ratio magnifies small fees: each Medicaid dollar stands for about 4.5 dollars of dentist charges in the ADA window, before the price index brings it to September 2026.
Florida price with or without dental insurance
You pay for crown in Florida
$486
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $1,739 |
| Estimated in-network price | $923 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $436 |
| Deductible | $50 |
Which edition, and what changed
The estimates divide the edition dated January 1, 2024. Its rates for the codes used here match the 2023 edition that the administrative rule formally incorporated on July 1, 2024, so the choice of edition does not change any figure. The current fee column comes from the January 2026 edition; the state agency also lists a July 2026 edition that could not be downloaded, so a few of today's fees may already be higher. Among the changes the site could read, the children's cleaning fee rose, which lifts the Medicaid payment for a checkup from $66 in 2024 to $82 today.
Most Florida Medicaid members receive dental care through managed care dental plans, whose payments are not public; the fee-for-service schedule is the published benchmark. For the comparison with other states, see the state comparison; for orthodontics, the braces page explains the codes and the lifetime maximums plans apply.
Florida price list, procedure by procedure
| Procedure | Unit | Full fee | In network | Medicaid fee, 2024 | Medicaid fee today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown | per tooth | $1,739 | $923 | $340 | $340 |
| Root canal, front tooth | per tooth | $1,129 | $599 | $221 | $221 |
| Root canal, premolar | per tooth | $1,449 | $769 | $284 | $284 |
| Root canal, molar | per tooth | $1,792 | $951 | $351 | $351 |
| Braces, teen | full treatment | $2,898 | $1,538 | $567 | $567 |
| Braces or aligners, adult | full treatment | $2,898 | $1,538 | $567 | $567 |
| Full dentures, both arches | both arches | $3,181 | $1,688 | $623 | $623 |
| Full denture, one arch | one arch | $1,590 | $844 | $311 | $311 |
| Partial denture | one arch | $1,616 | $858 | $316 | $316 |
| Simple extraction | per tooth | $139 | $74 | $27 | $27 |
| Surgical extraction | per tooth | $205 | $109 | $40 | $40 |
| Wisdom teeth, four impacted | four teeth | $1,621 | $860 | $317 | $317 |
| Filling | per tooth | $313 | $166 | $61 | $61 |
| Checkup and cleaning | one visit | $335 | $178 | $66 | $82 |