Dental costs in Georgia: implants, crowns, braces and more
Georgia had no adult Medicaid ratio in the ADA's 2024 study, so its prices rest on the children's ratio; a three-unit bridge comes to $4,905.
You pay for full dentures, both arches in Georgia
$1,163
$2,276 billed, $1,113 paid by the plan.
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $3,846 |
| Estimated in-network price | $2,276 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $1,113 |
| Deductible | $50 |
| Georgia Medicaid fee, same codes (2024) | $1,348 |
Estimate: Georgia Medicaid fee ÷ 39.8 % (Medicaid pay as a share of dentists' charges, ADA HPI 2024, children's ratio as the state has no adult figure). Brought to September 2026 with the dental services price index (BLS). Not a quote.
| CDT code | Service | Count | Medicaid fee, 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D5110 | Complete denture, upper | 1 | $673.78 |
| D5120 | Complete denture, lower | 1 | $673.78 |
Compiled by Radif Partners · How prices are estimated · Georgia Medicaid / PeachCare for Kids - Dental Services (fee-for-service) fee schedule, ADA ratios of Georgia · not a quote
A premolar root canal is estimated at $1,323 in Georgia, a full set of upper and lower dentures at $3,846, the removal of four impacted wisdom teeth at $2,871 and a three-unit bridge at $4,905, in September 2026 dollars before any dental plan. The fees behind them are the maximum allowable charges that Georgia Medicaid prints in Appendix B of its dental services manual. Georgia classed its adult dental benefit as emergency care only in the American Dental Association's 2024 study, which therefore measured no adult ratio there; the children's ratio, 39.8 % of what dentists charge, is used for every procedure. Georgia's schedule gives one fee per code for all ages, so the same fee and the same ratio serve a teenager's braces and an adult's dentures. Crowns and molar root canals are absent from the appendix and are not priced.
One appendix, rates reset each July
Georgia does not publish a separate dental spreadsheet. Its fees sit in Appendix B, Maximum Allowable Charges, of the Part II manual for dental services, reissued every quarter; the current edition dates from April 1, 2026. The state changes dental rates on July 1, the start of its fiscal year. The edition in force on July 1, 2024 is no longer online, so the base of this page is the October 2024 edition, which carries the rates set that July. Between the two, most fees moved by the same small step: the periodic exam, D0120, went from $25 to $26, a rise of 2.5 %, and a full upper denture from $674 to $691.
The appendix lists several rows for some codes, such as a primary or a permanent tooth, or a first and an additional extraction. The estimate uses the permanent tooth and the first tooth, which is how an adult procedure is billed.
A Georgia procedure, with or without a plan
You pay for bridge, three units in Georgia
$1,476
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $4,905 |
| Estimated in-network price | $2,903 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $1,426 |
| Deductible | $50 |
Why the children's ratio is used here
The ADA measured an adult ratio only in states whose Medicaid program offered adults more than emergency care in 2024. Georgia was not one of them, so the study gives only the children's figures: Medicaid paid 39.8 % of dentists' charges and 65.5 % of what private plans pay, close to the national 39.2 % for children. Dividing an all-ages fee by a children's ratio assumes that Georgia's program sits about as far below the market for adult work as it does for children's care. That is the main uncertainty of this page, and the reason the estimate should be read as a typical range rather than a figure for a given office.
Across the 9 states that price a three-unit bridge, the median estimate is $5,020; Georgia's $4,905 is set against it on the bridge page. A two-surface filling, at $316, is the kind of basic work most plans pay at a higher share; the coverage page explains the classes.
Georgia price list, procedure by procedure
| Procedure | Unit | Full fee | In network | Medicaid fee, 2024 | Medicaid fee today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Root canal, front tooth | per tooth | $1,084 | $642 | $380 | $389 |
| Root canal, premolar | per tooth | $1,323 | $783 | $464 | $475 |
| Braces, teen | full treatment | $2,411 | $1,427 | $845 | $866 |
| Full dentures, both arches | both arches | $3,846 | $2,276 | $1,348 | $1,381 |
| Full denture, one arch | one arch | $1,923 | $1,138 | $674 | $691 |
| Simple extraction | per tooth | $231 | $136 | $81 | $83 |
| Surgical extraction | per tooth | $427 | $253 | $150 | $154 |
| Wisdom teeth, four impacted | four teeth | $2,871 | $1,699 | $1,006 | $1,031 |
| Bridge, three units | three units | $4,905 | $2,903 | $1,718 | $1,761 |
| Deep cleaning (scaling and root planing) | full mouth | $1,607 | $951 | $563 | $577 |
| Filling | per tooth | $316 | $187 | $111 | $114 |
| Checkup and cleaning | one visit | $286 | $169 | $100 | $103 |