Dental costs in Oregon: implants, crowns, braces and more
Oregon's Medicaid program has raised most dental fees since 2024, but the estimate here rests on the June 2024 schedule, the one the ADA's ratios describe; a crown comes to $1,217.
You pay for crown in Oregon
$441
$832 billed, $391 paid by the plan.
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $1,217 |
| Estimated in-network price | $832 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $391 |
| Deductible | $50 |
| Oregon Medicaid fee, same codes (2024) | $273 |
Estimate: Oregon Medicaid fee ÷ 25.5 % (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D2740 | Crown, porcelain or ceramic | 1 | $272.79 |
Compiled by Radif Partners · How prices are estimated · Oregon Health Plan (OHP) fee-for-service (Open Card) fee schedule, ADA ratios of Oregon · not a quote
A porcelain crown is estimated at $1,217 in Oregon, a molar root canal at $949, a simple extraction at $444 and a full set of upper and lower dentures at $3,163, in September 2026 dollars before any dental plan. The base is the Oregon Health Plan's medical-dental fee schedule of June 2024, the edition in force when the American Dental Association collected the Medicaid fees behind its 2024 ratios. Those ratios put Oregon among the states where Medicaid paid least compared with the market: 25.5 % of what dentists charge adults, against 29.9 % nationally. Dividing a low fee by a low ratio brings the estimate back to a typical charge. Oregon has since raised its fees sharply, which matters to dentists who treat plan members but does not change what an uninsured patient is billed.
Fees that rose after 2024
Oregon publishes one schedule for medical and dental services, updated every month: the current edition and, for the base of this page, the June 2024 edition, which stayed unchanged through the summer of that year. Comparing the two shows how much the program changed its prices. A molar root canal, code D3330, was paid $213 in 2024 and $691 today; a porcelain crown went from $273 to $572; a two-surface filling from $47 to $147. The adult cleaning, D1110, rose 79 %.
Those increases change what the Oregon Health Plan pays a dentist. They do not tell us that private fees rose in the same proportion, and the ADA has not yet measured Oregon's ratio against the new schedule. Dividing the 2026 fees by the 2024 ratio would inflate every estimate, so the site divides the fees the ratio was measured on and carries the result forward with the national price index for dental services, the same way for every state. The table under this text shows both fees side by side.
An Oregon procedure with or without a plan
You pay for root canal, molar in Oregon
$350
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $949 |
| Estimated in-network price | $649 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $300 |
| Deductible | $50 |
What the low ratio means for a patient
In the ADA's figures, Oregon's Medicaid paid adults 36.3 % of what private dental plans pay the same dentists, one of the widest gaps in the country. A wide gap does not mean that dentists in Oregon are expensive; it means the program's 2024 fees sat far below the market. That is why the estimates of this page are well above the Medicaid fees in the table: a crown that Medicaid paid $273 for is estimated at $1,217 as a full fee and $832 at a typical network price.
Most Oregon Health Plan members get their dental care through coordinated care organizations, whose payment rates are not public; the schedule describes the program's fee-for-service side. For a person paying cash or using a private plan, the network price is the figure to set against a dentist's written estimate. The insurance calculator turns such an estimate into the share left after the deductible and the yearly maximum, and the root canal page compares front, premolar and molar teeth across states.
Oregon price list, procedure by procedure
| Procedure | Unit | Full fee | In network | Medicaid fee, 2024 | Medicaid fee today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown | per tooth | $1,217 | $832 | $273 | $572 |
| Root canal, front tooth | per tooth | $657 | $449 | $147 | $468 |
| Root canal, premolar | per tooth | $754 | $516 | $169 | $543 |
| Root canal, molar | per tooth | $949 | $649 | $213 | $691 |
| Full dentures, both arches | both arches | $3,163 | $2,164 | $709 | $1,998 |
| Full denture, one arch | one arch | $1,582 | $1,082 | $355 | $1,000 |
| Simple extraction | per tooth | $444 | $304 | $100 | $140 |
| Surgical extraction | per tooth | $506 | $346 | $114 | $201 |
| Wisdom teeth, four impacted | four teeth | $3,650 | $2,496 | $818 | $1,438 |
| Deep cleaning (scaling and root planing) | full mouth | $1,127 | $771 | $253 | $752 |
| Filling | per tooth | $208 | $142 | $47 | $147 |
| Checkup and cleaning | one visit | $363 | $248 | $81 | $166 |