Dental costs in Texas: implants, crowns, braces and more
Texas Medicaid's dental schedule covers patients under 21 only, so every Texas price here starts from a children's fee; a molar root canal comes to $1,610.
You pay for root canal, molar in Texas
$481
$912 billed, $431 paid by the plan.
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $1,610 |
| Estimated in-network price | $912 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $431 |
| Deductible | $50 |
| Texas Medicaid fee, same codes (2024) | $596 |
Estimate: Texas Medicaid fee ÷ 42.1 % (Medicaid pay as a share of dentists' charges, ADA HPI 2024; Texas 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 | $596.48 |
Compiled by Radif Partners · How prices are estimated · Texas Medicaid - Texas Health Steps (THSteps) Dental, fee-for-service fee schedule, ADA ratios of Texas · not a quote
A molar root canal is estimated at $1,610 in Texas, a premolar root canal at $1,064, a two-surface filling at $284, a simple extraction at $173 and a checkup with cleaning and X-rays at $326, in September 2026 dollars before any dental plan. The fees come from the dental schedule of Texas Health Steps, the Medicaid dental benefit for people under 21, posted by the state's Medicaid claims administrator in July 2024. Texas Medicaid has no adult dental fee-for-service schedule, and the American Dental Association's 2024 study classed its adult benefit as emergency care only, so it measured no adult ratio. Every Texas estimate therefore divides a children's fee by the children's ratio: Medicaid paid 42.1 % of what Texas dentists charge for children's care. The same tooth and the same code cost a dentist the same work at 16 or at 40, which is what the estimate relies on.
A children's schedule read for adult prices
The Texas Medicaid fee schedule page publishes one dental file for Texas Health Steps. Each code carries an age range, and nearly all of them stop at 20 years: crowns and bridges start at 13 or 16, dentures at 3, but none reaches adulthood. This site reads the July 2024 edition as the base of its estimates and shows the current edition beside it. Most fees were raised in September 2025 or September 2026: a molar root canal, D3330, went from $596 to $632, and the adult-age cleaning code D1110 from $56 to $58.
Comprehensive orthodontics, D8080, entered the schedule with a fee dated October 2024, after the month the ADA's ratios describe, so braces are not priced for Texas.
A Texas procedure, with or without a plan
You pay for root canal, molar in Texas
$481
| Estimated dentist charge (full fee) | $1,610 |
| Estimated in-network price | $912 |
| Plan pays (50 % after deductible) | $431 |
| Deductible | $50 |
Procedures withheld for Texas
Children's fees for some codes sit much further below the market than the basket of exams, cleanings, fillings and extractions on which the ADA built its ratio. Divided by that ratio, they give prices less than half the median of the other states. The site withholds such results rather than print them: for Texas, that is the case of crown, full dentures, both arches, full denture, one arch, partial denture, bridge, three units, veneer and deep cleaning (scaling and root planing). The porcelain crown is one such case: Texas Health Steps paid $252 for it in 2024. The method page gives the rule.
What remains are the procedures whose Texas fees behave like the basket: root canals, extractions, the removal of four impacted wisdom teeth at $3,095, fillings and checkups. For an adult paying cash, the network price, here $912 for a molar root canal, is the figure a dental plan would allow; the page on paying without insurance explains the gap between the two. A written estimate from a Texas dentist, read code by code against the table below, shows where an office stands.
Texas price list, procedure by procedure
| Procedure | Unit | Full fee | In network | Medicaid fee, 2024 | Medicaid fee today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Root canal, front tooth | per tooth | $918 | $520 | $340 | $361 |
| Root canal, premolar | per tooth | $1,064 | $602 | $394 | $418 |
| Root canal, molar | per tooth | $1,610 | $912 | $596 | $632 |
| Simple extraction | per tooth | $173 | $98 | $64 | $68 |
| Surgical extraction | per tooth | $265 | $150 | $98 | $104 |
| Wisdom teeth, four impacted | four teeth | $3,095 | $1,752 | $1,147 | $1,216 |
| Filling | per tooth | $284 | $161 | $105 | $112 |
| Checkup and cleaning | one visit | $326 | $185 | $121 | $125 |