Dental costs in Indiana: implants, crowns, braces and more
Indiana's Medicaid dental fees have carried the same effective date, January 1, 2024, from the ADA's reference month to today, so its estimates and today's Medicaid payments rest on one set of numbers.
You pay for root canal, molar in Indiana
$531
$1,012 billed, $481 paid by the plan.
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $1,646 |
| Estimated in-network price | $1,012 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $481 |
| Deductible | $50 |
| Indiana Medicaid fee, same codes (2024) | $720 |
Estimate: Indiana Medicaid fee ÷ 49.7 % (Medicaid pay as a share of dentists' charges, ADA HPI 2024; Indiana 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D3330 | Endodontic therapy, molar | 1 | $719.77 |
Compiled by Radif Partners · How prices are estimated · Indiana Health Coverage Programs (IHCP) - Medicaid fee-for-service fee schedule, ADA ratios of Indiana · not a quote
Indiana's estimates put complete upper and lower dentures at $2,569, a molar root canal at $1,646, the removal of four impacted wisdom teeth at $3,157, a deep cleaning of all four quadrants at $1,765 and a two-surface filling at $239, in September 2026 dollars and before insurance. The fees come from the professional fee schedule of the Indiana Health Coverage Programs, the state's Medicaid programs, where every dental code used here carries a rate effective date of January 1, 2024 and no end date. The ADA's 2024 study found Indiana Medicaid paid 49.6 % of what dentists charged for adult care and 49.7 % for children's care, both far above the national figures, so each fee is multiplied by only about 2, before the price index, to recover the typical charge.
One fee schedule, read in its base column
Indiana publishes its dental fees inside the IHCP professional fee schedule, a single spreadsheet that also covers medical services. It prints a maximum fee and several reduced cutback columns that apply to certain kinds of providers. The site reads the base maximum fee. Every fee it uses is identical in the file updated in June 2026 and at its January 2024 effective date, so the 2024 column and the current column of the price list below always match.
Some codes are listed as not covered at a price of zero, among them porcelain crowns, implants and fixed bridges, so the site cannot price that work in Indiana. Root canals have fees for patients up to age 20 only; the estimates use those children's fees with the children's ratio, a pairing the result card names. Dentures and extractions carry the same fee for every age.
An Indiana procedure, insured or not
You pay for full dentures, both arches in Indiana
$823
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $2,569 |
| Estimated in-network price | $1,595 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $773 |
| Deductible | $50 |
A high ratio and what it means for a quote
When Medicaid pays close to half of dentists' charges, the step from fee to estimate is short, and the estimate leans on the fee itself. The four impacted wisdom teeth show the result: $3,157 in Indiana against a median of $3,023 for the 27 states that price them, because the Indiana fee per impacted tooth is high. A simple extraction comes to $314. The outlier screen withholds braces, teen, whose Indiana fees give estimates far from the other states.
The ADA classed Indiana's adult benefit in 2024 as limited, and the schedule itself is a list of fees, not of what an adult member may receive. Anyone comparing a quote with these figures should compare code by code, since an office's fee for a surgical extraction, sedation or a bone graft can make the total diverge. The wisdom teeth page and the extraction page explain the codes involved.
Indiana price list, procedure by procedure
| Procedure | Unit | Full fee | In network | Medicaid fee, 2024 | Medicaid fee today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Root canal, front tooth | per tooth | $1,183 | $727 | $517 | $517 |
| Root canal, premolar | per tooth | $1,360 | $836 | $595 | $595 |
| Root canal, molar | per tooth | $1,646 | $1,012 | $720 | $720 |
| Braces or aligners, adult | full treatment | $8,749 | $5,380 | $3,827 | $3,827 |
| Full dentures, both arches | both arches | $2,569 | $1,595 | $1,121 | $1,121 |
| Full denture, one arch | one arch | $1,281 | $795 | $559 | $559 |
| Partial denture | one arch | $1,315 | $817 | $574 | $574 |
| Simple extraction | per tooth | $314 | $195 | $137 | $137 |
| Surgical extraction | per tooth | $460 | $286 | $201 | $201 |
| Wisdom teeth, four impacted | four teeth | $3,157 | $1,960 | $1,378 | $1,378 |
| Deep cleaning (scaling and root planing) | full mouth | $1,765 | $1,096 | $771 | $771 |
| Filling | per tooth | $239 | $149 | $105 | $105 |
| Checkup and cleaning | one visit | $294 | $182 | $128 | $128 |