Dental costs in Iowa: implants, crowns, braces and more
Iowa's Medicaid schedule lists implants, so a single implant can be priced here: $9,153 with its abutment and crown, before insurance.
You pay for single implant in Iowa
$4,349
$5,849 billed, $1,500 paid by the plan.
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $9,153 |
| Estimated in-network price | $5,849 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $1,500 |
| Deductible | $50 |
| Plan share lost to the maximum | $1,400 |
| Iowa Medicaid fee, same codes (2024) | $2,407 |
Estimate: Iowa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D6010 | Implant body, endosteal | 1 | $1,078.94 |
| D6057 | Abutment | 1 | $552 |
| D6058 | Crown on the abutment | 1 | $775.79 |
Compiled by Radif Partners · How prices are estimated · Iowa Medicaid fee-for-service - Fee Schedule #04 DENTIST fee schedule, ADA ratios of Iowa · not a quote
A single implant with its abutment and crown is estimated at $9,153 in Iowa, a three-unit bridge at $4,796, the removal of four impacted wisdom teeth at $3,269 and a deep cleaning of the whole mouth at $1,557, in September 2026 dollars before any plan. The base is Iowa Medicaid's fee schedule for dentists, published as an open file that only shows the rates in force today. Rates that took effect after July 1, 2024 cannot be traced back to that date, so this site uses only the 22 codes whose current rate already applied then. That leaves out crowns, fillings and checkups, whose Iowa rates were raised in 2025 and 2026, but keeps the surgical and replacement work. The ADA's 2024 study found that Iowa Medicaid paid 29.9 % of what dentists charge adults.
An open file with dates on every row
Iowa publishes its Medicaid fee schedule for dentists as a data file, one row per code with the date its rate took effect. Of the 67 codes this site reads there, the diagnostic and preventive ones carry a rate from March 2026, after an increase for that group of services, and most restorative and prosthetic ones a rate from July 2025. Periodontal, surgical, implant and bridge codes keep older dates. Because the ADA's ratios describe Medicaid fees collected through July 2024, only rows dated on or before July 1, 2024 can be used: 22 codes, enough to price 5 of the procedures on this site.
That is why the Iowa price list below has no crown, filling or checkup. The rates exist, but their 2024 level is not in the file, and the site does not guess it.
An Iowa procedure, with or without a plan
You pay for single implant in Iowa
$4,349
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $9,153 |
| Estimated in-network price | $5,849 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $1,500 |
| Deductible | $50 |
Implants and bridges side by side
The implant estimate adds the implant body, code D6010, paid $1,079 by Iowa Medicaid, a custom abutment and a porcelain crown on the implant. A bridge of three units, one false tooth and two supporting crowns, comes to $4,796. With a plan like the Covered California example, the implant's network price of $5,849 runs into the $1,500 yearly maximum, leaving $4,349 to the patient in one plan year. The implant or bridge page compares the two bills, never their clinical merits, which only a dentist can weigh.
Surgery and gum treatment
A surgical extraction of an erupted tooth is estimated at $370 and four impacted wisdom teeth at $3,269, sedation not included. Deep cleaning, scaling and root planing in all four quadrants, comes to $1,557. Most Iowa Medicaid members receive dental care through managed dental plans whose rates are not public; the schedule used here is the fee-for-service one.
Iowa price list, procedure by procedure
| Procedure | Unit | Full fee | In network | Medicaid fee, 2024 | Medicaid fee today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single implant | per tooth | $9,153 | $5,849 | $2,407 | $2,407 |
| Surgical extraction | per tooth | $370 | $236 | $97 | $97 |
| Wisdom teeth, four impacted | four teeth | $3,269 | $2,089 | $860 | $860 |
| Bridge, three units | three units | $4,796 | $3,065 | $1,261 | $1,261 |
| Deep cleaning (scaling and root planing) | full mouth | $1,557 | $995 | $409 | $409 |