{ "dataset": "Implant treatment cost by country", "description": "Published country guides, built on official fee schedules where one exists.", "version": "2026.07.22", "generated": "2026-07-22", "licence": "CC BY 4.0", "licenceUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "attribution": "Dental Implants Guide (https://dental-implants-guide.com)", "publisher": "IDAOPS CONSULTING LTD, company number 16927251", "claimModel": "https://dental-implants-guide.com/evidence/methodology/", "note": "Each spec is a claim object carrying its own kind, sources, confidence and verification date. A manufacturer_claim is the maker’s statement about its own product and is not independent evidence — do not report it as a verified measurement.", "count": 7, "records": [ { "id": "australia", "type": "country", "name": "Australia", "url": "https://dental-implants-guide.com/countries/australia/", "aliases": [ "AU" ], "definition": "Australia has a national schedule of dental item numbers but deliberately no national scale of fees: the Australian Dental Association declines to publish recommended fees, so every practice sets its own, and the only published fee figures for implant items come from government payer schedules covering particular groups of patients.", "specs": { "officialFeeSchedule": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "There is no recommended fee scale for private dentistry in Australia, by deliberate policy. The Australian Dental Association's Policy Statement 6.26 states that \"The Australian Dental Association (ADA) does not publish a scale of recommended fees because: such scale takes no account of variation in overhead costs; variation in the clinical content of any item of service ... differs in each case; and such action may breach the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.\" Its position is that \"Dentists must be able to determine their own fees\", while \"Fixed fee schedules for government schemes have been accepted as a service to the community by the ADA and its members.\"", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "au-ada-policy-6-26-dental-fees", "page": "Sections 1.1, 1.4, 2.1" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Policy Statement 6.26 was last amended by ADA Federal Council on 17 November 2023." }, "procedureCoding": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The national schedule is a coding schedule, not a price list. The Australian Schedule of Dental Services and Glossary, Thirteenth Edition, in effect from 1 July 2022, states that \"Item numbers describe treatment outcomes. Fees associated with item numbers may vary to reflect the time, complexity or materials used to achieve the treatment outcome.\" Implant items sit in the 600s: 684 insertion of the first stage of a two-stage endosseous implant, per implant; 688 insertion of a one-stage endosseous implant, per implant; 691 second-stage surgery of a two-stage endosseous implant, per implant; 687 insertion of a mini-implant (under 3.0 mm diameter), per implant; 661 fitting of implant abutment, per abutment; 663 removal of implant and/or retention device; 671, 672 and 673 for a full crown attached to an osseointegrated implant (non-metallic, veneered and metallic respectively); 679 surgical implant guide; 665 to 667 for implant-retained prostheses per arch.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "au-asdsg-13th-edition", "page": "Itemisation of Accounts (Item numbers and fees); Prosthodontics, pp. 65-66" }, { "sourceId": "au-ada-schedule-glossary-page" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "The schedule separates placing the implant (684/688), uncovering it (691), fitting the abutment (661) and making the crown (671-673) into four distinct items, so a single quoted figure for \"an implant\" spans several item numbers." }, "governmentSchemeFees": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The Department of Veterans' Affairs publishes an item-by-item fee schedule, effective 1 January 2026 and built on the 12th edition of the Australian Schedule, which is the only Australian schedule located that attaches money to implant items. It does not price the surgery: items S684 (first stage of a two-stage endosseous implant), S688 (one-stage endosseous implant), S691 (second-stage surgery), S661 (fitting of implant abutment) and S679 (surgical implant guide) are all marked \"FBN\", which the schedule defines as \"Fee By Negotiation\", and all require prior approval. It does price the crown on the implant: as at 1 January 2026, a full crown attached to an osseointegrated implant is AUD 1,617.70 for a dentist and AUD 2,151.60 for a dental specialist when non-metallic (D671/S671), AUD 1,832.60 and AUD 2,374.20 when veneered (D672/S672), and AUD 1,428.05 and AUD 1,899.25 when metallic (D673/S673) — all excluding GST. The schedule's Note 10 states that \"Requests for osseointegrated implants should be directed to DVA.\"", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "au-dva-dental-fee-schedule-2026", "page": "Implant Prostheses; \"FBN\" definition" }, { "sourceId": "au-dva-dental-fee-schedules-index" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "These are amounts a government payer will pay for eligible members of the veteran community with prior approval. They are not market prices, not quotations, and not what an ordinary private patient is charged. The machine-readable schedule file dated 1 July 2026 on the same index page carries higher figures for the same items (D671 AUD 1,659.80, D672 AUD 1,880.25, D673 AUD 1,465.20)." }, "publicFunding": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Not funded for the general population. The Child Dental Benefits Schedule, a statutory scheme under the Dental Benefits Act 2008, provides eligible children aged 0-17 with a capped benefit of AUD 1,158 over two consecutive calendar years for basic dental services (examinations, radiographs, cleaning, fissure sealing, fillings, root canals, extractions and partial dentures), and its schedule of 76 item numbers contains no implant placement or implant prosthesis item — the word \"implant\" appears only in the descriptor of item 88111, removal of plaque and/or stain. Adult public dental care is delivered by state and territory governments to eligible patients, and the Commonwealth notes that people with private health insurance \"may be able to claim for dental treatments\" under extras cover.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "au-cdbs-guide-v14", "page": "What is the CDBS?; Attachment A: Dental Benefits Schedule" }, { "sourceId": "au-health-dental-health" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Whether any state or territory public dental service provides implants, and on what criteria, was not established here and would have to be checked service by service." }, "regulator": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Registration is national. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) maintains a single public Register of practitioners covering dental practice alongside the other regulated health professions, and dental practitioners are registered with the Dental Board of Australia under that scheme. Ahpra states that \"When a health practitioner's name appears on the list, you know that they are allowed to practise\", and that any registration type or conditions limiting what a practitioner may do are published on the register too. Ahpra also publishes separate lists of cancelled or prohibited practitioners and of practitioners who have given an undertaking not to practise. The register is searchable at https://www.ahpra.gov.au/registration/registers-of-practitioners.aspx.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "au-ahpra-register-of-practitioners" }, { "sourceId": "au-dva-dental-fee-schedule-2026", "quote": "registered with the Dental Board of Australia and comply with approved scope of practice registration standards" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22" }, "taxTreatment": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Dental is one of the listed health services that are GST-free, provided the service \"is performed by a recognised health professional in that listed health service\" and \"is generally accepted in that listed health profession as being necessary for the appropriate treatment of the recipient of the supply\", according to the Australian Taxation Office. Consistently with this, the Department of Veterans' Affairs states the fees in its dental schedule excluding GST.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "au-ato-other-health-services" }, { "sourceId": "au-dva-dental-fee-schedule-2026", "page": "Fee $ (Excl. GST) column heading" } ], "confidence": "medium", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "The ATO guidance does not name implants. Whether a particular implant service meets the appropriate-treatment test was not resolved here — ask the practice whether the quoted figure includes GST." }, "priceIndication": { "kind": "unknown", "reason": "not_publicly_verified", "note": "No published Australian source states a fee for placing a dental implant privately. Checked: the Australian Schedule of Dental Services and Glossary, 13th edition (item numbers and descriptors only, and it says so explicitly); the ADA's Policy Statement 6.26 (the association declines to publish a fee scale at all); the ADA Dental Fees Survey, which does collect fees charged by members in private practice but releases the results to members only, behind a login; the Child Dental Benefits Schedule (no implant items); and the Department of Veterans' Affairs schedule, which marks every implant surgical item \"Fee By Negotiation\". What the DVA schedule does state for implant crowns is recorded under governmentSchemeFees and is a payer's rate, not a market price. Clinic websites and press estimates were not used and may not be used to fill this field." }, "surveyAvailability": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The Australian Dental Association runs a regular Dental Fees Survey summarising fees charged by members in private practice — its 2022 release refers to 122 items surveyed for general practitioners — but full results are released to ADA members only and require a membership login. The ADA describes the survey's purpose as supporting advocacy \"in relation to private health insurance, closing the gap between benefits schedules used for the CDBS and Veterans Affairs dental schemes, and the actual costs of providing treatment under these schemes\".", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "au-ada-dental-fees-survey" }, { "sourceId": "au-ada-policy-6-26-dental-fees", "page": "Section 1.3" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "This is the closest thing Australia has to a published implant price benchmark, and it is not public. Whether it reports implant items at all could not be established from outside the member area." }, "whatDrivesCost": { "kind": "editorial_interpretation", "text": "Because nothing anchors Australian fees to a published scale, the variation between quotations is real rather than a rounding difference, and the item numbers are the only reliable way to see where it sits. A quotation may or may not include the surgical guide (679), the abutment (661), the second-stage surgery (691) and the crown (671 to 673) alongside the implant itself (684 or 688), and two totals that look comparable often are not counting the same items. Beyond the itemisation, the usual drivers apply: whether a general dentist or a registered specialist does the surgery, whether grafting or a sinus procedure is needed, whether sedation or theatre time is involved, and the practice's own overheads — which is precisely the reason the national association gives for not publishing a scale. Private health insurance is an extras benefit rather than a fee schedule, so a rebate reduces what the patient pays without setting what the practice charges; the ADA's own policy notes that \"Rebates offered by funding agencies may not reflect fees charged by dentists.\"", "author": "editorial", "lastReviewed": "2026-07-22" } }, "certifications": [], "sources": [ { "id": "au-ada-policy-6-26-dental-fees", "title": "Policy Statement 6.26 — Dental Fees", "publisher": "Australian Dental Association", "url": "https://ada.org.au/policy-statement-6-26-dental-fees", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "National dental association policy statement on fee setting", "publishedDate": "2023-11-17", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "au-asdsg-13th-edition", "title": "The Australian Schedule of Dental Services and Glossary, Thirteenth Edition (2022)", "publisher": "Australian Dental Association", "url": "https://www.adc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ADA_Handbook_Australian-Schedule-and-Dental-Glossary-13th-Edition.pdf", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "National dental services coding schedule (item numbers and descriptors, no fees); copy published by the Australian Dental Council", "publishedDate": "2022-07-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "au-ada-schedule-glossary-page", "title": "Australian Schedule of Dental Services and Glossary (Australian Dental Association services page)", "publisher": "Australian Dental Association", "url": "https://ada.org.au/services/schedule-glossary", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "Publisher's page for the national coding schedule — current edition, purpose and how it is obtained", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "au-dva-dental-fee-schedule-2026", "title": "Fee Schedule of Dental Services for Dentists, Dental Specialists & Other Dental Practitioners, effective 1 January 2026", "publisher": "Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia)", "url": "https://www.dva.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-01/dental-fees-1jan2026.docx", "tier": "guideline", "sourceType": "Government payer fee schedule, item by item", "publishedDate": "2026-01-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "au-dva-dental-fee-schedules-index", "title": "Dental and allied health fee schedules", "publisher": "Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia)", "url": "https://www.dva.gov.au/providers/fees-claims/dental-and-allied-health-fee-schedules", "tier": "guideline", "sourceType": "Government payer fee schedule index page (current and superseded editions, plus machine-readable schedule files)", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "au-cdbs-guide-v14", "title": "Guide to the Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS) — Version 14, effective 1 January 2026", "publisher": "Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing", "url": "https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-12/cdbs-guide-to-the-child-dental-benefits-schedule.pdf", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Statutory dental benefits schedule under the Dental Benefits Act 2008, with item numbers and benefit amounts", "publishedDate": "2026-01-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "au-health-dental-health", "title": "Dental health", "publisher": "Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing", "url": "https://www.health.gov.au/topics/dental-health", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Government topic page on how dental care is funded and delivered", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "au-ahpra-register-of-practitioners", "title": "Register of practitioners", "publisher": "Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra)", "url": "https://www.ahpra.gov.au/registration/registers-of-practitioners.aspx", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "National health practitioner public register", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "au-ato-other-health-services", "title": "GST and health — Other health services", "publisher": "Australian Taxation Office", "url": "https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/gst-excise-and-indirect-taxes/gst/in-detail/your-industry/gst-and-health/other-health-services", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "National tax authority guidance on GST treatment of health services", "publishedDate": "2024-06-12", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "au-ada-dental-fees-survey", "title": "Dental Fees Survey (Australian Dental Association)", "publisher": "Australian Dental Association", "url": "https://ada.org.au/dental-fees-survey-2022", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "National dental fees survey — announcement page; the results themselves are released to ADA members only", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "paywalled" } ] }, { "id": "canada", "type": "country", "name": "Canada", "url": "https://dental-implants-guide.com/countries/canada/", "aliases": [ "CA" ], "definition": "Dental fees in Canada are set by each practice, loosely anchored to the annual suggested fee guide published by the dental association of the province the practice sits in; those guides are advisory rather than binding, and the federal Canadian Dental Care Plan excludes implants and all implant-related procedures outright.", "specs": { "officialFeeSchedule": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "There is no national dental fee schedule. Each provincial dental association publishes its own annual suggested fee guide, and each guide is explicitly advisory: the Alberta guide's preamble states that \"The fees listed herein are published to serve merely as a guide. No dentist receiving this list is under any obligation to accept the fees itemized\", the Government of Alberta states that \"The fees in the dental guide are recommended, but are not mandatory. Dentists continue to set the fees they charge for services\", and the British Columbia Dental Association answers the question of whether dentists must follow its guide with \"No. While many dentists will follow a number of fees within the guide, there is no requirement to do so.\"", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ca-ab-fee-guide-2021", "page": "Preamble (p. ii)" }, { "sourceId": "ca-alberta-gov-dental-fees" }, { "sourceId": "ca-bcda-cost-of-dentistry" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Because the guides are provincial, no single figure from any one of them is a Canadian national figure." }, "feeGuideAccess": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Publication practice differs by province. Alberta and British Columbia publish free abbreviated public editions of their 2026 guides — Alberta's covers common procedures only, British Columbia's is a two-page patient version — and neither abbreviated edition contains any implant item. The full British Columbia guide runs to over 1,400 codes. Ontario's Suggested Fee Guide is behind a member login, its landing page stating that \"This content is available only to registered members of the Ontario Dental Association\". The most recent full line-by-line guide located in public is Alberta's January 2021 edition, published on the website of the College of Dental Surgeons of Alberta.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ca-ab-fee-guide-2026-abbreviated" }, { "sourceId": "ca-bcda-fee-guide-2026-abbreviated" }, { "sourceId": "ca-bcda-cost-of-dentistry" }, { "sourceId": "ca-oda-suggested-fee-guides" }, { "sourceId": "ca-ab-fee-guide-2021" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22" }, "procedureCoding": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Procedure codes are national. The Canadian Dental Association's Uniform System of Coding & List of Services (USC&LS) defines the codes the provincial guides are built on, including the 79900 implantology class — 79931 surgical installation of implant with cover screw, per implant; 79941 surgical installation of implant (single-component), per implant; 79961 and 79962 for removal. The class heading states it \"Includes placement of implant, post-surgical care, uncovering and placement of attachment but not prosthesis\". The USC&LS itself carries no fees, and is licensed rather than freely republished: it is \"intended for the sole use of the Corporate Members of the Canadian Dental Association (CDA) and other organizations having signed the USC&LS Licensing Agreement\".", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ca-cda-uscls-2024", "page": "p. 173 (Implantology, 79900)" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22" }, "scheduleImplantItems": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "In the most recent full Canadian fee guide available publicly — the Alberta Dental Association and College Guide for Dental Fees for General Dentists, January 2021 — every code in the 79900 implantology class carries the marker \"I.C.\" instead of a fee. The guide defines it: \"The letters 'I.C.' following a procedure code indicates a designation 'Independent Consideration' and is utilized when the procedure involves complexities which are too variable to designate a specific fee.\" That applies to 79931 and 79941 (surgical installation of an implant), to 79961/79962 (removal), and to the implant abutment codes 26101 and 26102. The prosthetic codes above the implant do carry suggested fees: as at January 2021 that guide suggested CAD 861.59 for code 27205, an implant-supported porcelain/ceramic/polymer glass crown, and the same figure for the metal-ceramic (27215) and cast metal (27305) implant-supported crowns — each marked \"+L +E\", meaning laboratory costs and material expenses are coded and charged separately on top.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ca-ab-fee-guide-2021", "page": "pp. v, 66-67 (79900 Implantology); crown codes 27205/27215/27305" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "These are Alberta figures as at January 2021 and are superseded: the association has published a new guide each year since, and the current full line-by-line edition was not found in public. They are recorded because they show what a Canadian fee guide does and does not state about implants, not as a current price." }, "publicFunding": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Not funded. The Canadian Dental Care Plan's Dental Benefits Guide, effective 1 April 2026, lists \"implants and all implant-related procedures\" in Appendix E: Exclusions — \"oral health care procedures that are always outside the scope of the CDCP and are not eligible for coverage at any time\". The guide states separately that \"Implants and ridge augmentation are exclusions under the CDCP\", that \"Any types of crowns supported by implants, as well as all implant-related procedures, are not covered\", and that \"Complete and partial dentures supported by implants as well as all implant-related procedures are exclusions\". Exclusions \"are never eligible for reconsideration\".", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ca-cdcp-dental-benefits-guide", "page": "Appendix E: Exclusions" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "The CDCP is administered by Sun Life on behalf of Health Canada; adjudication of any exception request rests with Health Canada, and the guide describes coverage of exceptions as \"expected to be extremely rare\"." }, "regulator": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Dentists are registered provincially, not nationally, so there is no single Canadian register — each province and territory has its own regulator with its own public register. In Ontario the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario publishes the register as \"Find a Dentist\" (https://www.rcdso.org/en-ca/find-a-dentist); in British Columbia the British Columbia College of Oral Health Professionals publishes a single public register covering dentists, denturists, licensed dental assistants, dental technicians and dental therapists (https://oralhealthbc.ca/public-register/), which records whether a practitioner may practise, what they may provide and any disciplinary action.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ca-rcdso-find-a-dentist" }, { "sourceId": "ca-bccohp-public-register" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Only two provinces are recorded here as examples. A patient in another province must check that province's own regulator." }, "taxTreatment": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Dental services supplied by a dentist are exempt supplies for GST/HST purposes, while cosmetic services are taxable: the Canada Revenue Agency describes \"taxable supplies (for example, cosmetic services and orthodontic appliances)\" as against \"exempt supplies of dental services\", and states that \"The making of exempt supplies, such as orthodontic services, is not a commercial activity for GST/HST purposes.\"", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ca-cra-notice-339" } ], "confidence": "medium", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "This notice concerns input tax credits and does not address implants specifically. Whether tax is added to any particular implant line turns on the purpose test between health care and cosmetic supply, which was not resolved here — ask the practice whether the quoted figure includes GST/HST." }, "priceIndication": { "kind": "unknown", "reason": "not_publicly_verified", "note": "No Canadian official schedule states a fee for placing a dental implant. Checked: the Canadian Dental Association's USC&LS (national codes, no fees); the Alberta Dental Association and College full guide of January 2021 (all 79900 implantology codes marked Independent Consideration — no fee); the Alberta 2026 and British Columbia 2026 abbreviated public guides (no implant items at all); the Ontario Dental Association's guide (member login only, not inspected); and the Canadian Dental Care Plan Dental Benefits Guide (implants excluded, so it publishes no implant rate). The one implant-related figure a guide does state is recorded separately under scheduleImplantItems and is a 2021 Alberta crown fee, not a price for an implant. Clinic websites were not used and may not be used to fill this field." }, "whatDrivesCost": { "kind": "editorial_interpretation", "text": "Four things move a Canadian implant quotation, and all of them are visible on an itemised plan. First, province: the guides differ, and a fee that tracks the Ontario guide is not the same number as one tracking the British Columbia guide. Second, what the guide leaves open — the fixture, the abutment and any grafting sit under Independent Consideration, so those lines are set entirely by the practice, while the crown line usually tracks the guide closely. Third, the \"+L +E\" convention: laboratory work and material expenses are separate codes, so a crown fee quoted without them is not the whole crown. Fourth, whether the case is done by a general dentist or referred to a specialist, which changes both the fee and the number of practices billing. Since implants are excluded from the Canadian Dental Care Plan, and any private plan sets its own terms, the patient should assume they are paying for the whole of it until a plan says otherwise — which is exactly why the coded line-by-line plan matters more here than a headline total.", "author": "editorial", "lastReviewed": "2026-07-22" } }, "certifications": [], "sources": [ { "id": "ca-ab-fee-guide-2021", "title": "Guide for Dental Fees for General Dentists, January 2021", "publisher": "Alberta Dental Association and College", "url": "https://www.cdsab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2021-ADAC-GP-Guide-for-Dental-Fees.pdf", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "Provincial suggested fee guide (full line-by-line edition, published in full on the Alberta dental regulator's site)", "publishedDate": "2021-01-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ca-alberta-gov-dental-fees", "title": "Dental fees in Alberta", "publisher": "Government of Alberta", "url": "https://www.alberta.ca/dental-fees", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Provincial government statement on the status of the dental fee guide", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ca-bcda-cost-of-dentistry", "title": "Dental Costs in BC — how the Suggested Fee Guide works", "publisher": "British Columbia Dental Association", "url": "https://bcdental.org/public-education/cost-of-dentistry/", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "Provincial dental association public explanation of its fee guide", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ca-ab-fee-guide-2026-abbreviated", "title": "Suggested Fee Guide for General Dentists: 2026 Abbreviated Version (effective 1 January – 31 December 2026)", "publisher": "Alberta Dental Association", "url": "https://www.albertadentalassociation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026_AbbreviatedDentalFeeGuideForGeneralDentists.pdf", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "Provincial suggested fee guide (abbreviated public edition)", "publishedDate": "2026-01-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ca-bcda-fee-guide-2026-abbreviated", "title": "2026 Abbreviated General Practitioner's Suggested Fee Guide, effective 1 February 2026", "publisher": "British Columbia Dental Association", "url": "https://bcdental.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/BCDA-Fee-Guide-2026-Abbreviated-Public-Patient-Version.pdf", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "Provincial suggested fee guide (abbreviated public/patient edition)", "publishedDate": "2026-02-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ca-oda-suggested-fee-guides", "title": "Suggested Fee Guides (Ontario Dental Association)", "publisher": "Ontario Dental Association", "url": "https://www.oda.ca/member-resources/managing-your-practice/suggested-fee-guides/", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "Provincial suggested fee guide — landing page; the guide itself is behind a member login", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "paywalled" }, { "id": "ca-cda-uscls-2024", "title": "Uniform System of Coding & List of Services (2024) / Système de codification normalisé et liste de services (2024)", "publisher": "Canadian Dental Association", "url": "https://nsdafiles.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024-USCLS_add-code-circled.pdf", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "National dental procedure code list (licensed document, copy published by the Nova Scotia Dental Association)", "publishedDate": "2024-01-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ca-cdcp-dental-benefits-guide", "title": "Canadian Dental Care Plan — Dental Benefits Guide (effective 1 April 2026)", "publisher": "Health Canada", "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/dental/dental-care-plan/guide.html", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal public dental plan benefits guide", "publishedDate": "2026-04-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ca-rcdso-find-a-dentist", "title": "Find a Dentist — the public register of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario", "publisher": "Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario", "url": "https://www.rcdso.org/en-ca/find-a-dentist", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Provincial dental regulator's public register", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ca-bccohp-public-register", "title": "BCCOHP Public Registry", "publisher": "British Columbia College of Oral Health Professionals", "url": "https://oralhealthbc.ca/public-register/", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Provincial oral health regulator's public register", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ca-cra-notice-339", "title": "GST/HST Notice 339 — Input Tax Credits Related to Dental Practices", "publisher": "Canada Revenue Agency", "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publications/publications/notice339/input-tax-credits-related-to-dental-practices.html", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "National tax authority notice on GST/HST treatment of dental supplies", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" } ] }, { "id": "germany", "type": "country", "name": "Germany", "url": "https://dental-implants-guide.com/countries/germany/", "aliases": [ "Deutschland", "Federal Republic of Germany" ], "definition": "Implant treatment in Germany is billed under the GOZ, a federal fee regulation that fixes a point count for every dental item and a point value in law, while statutory health insurance excludes implants altogether apart from a short list of severe cases.", "specs": { "officialFeeSchedule": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The Gebührenordnung für Zahnärzte (GOZ) of 22 October 1987, last amended 5 December 2011, governs what a dentist may charge a private payer. Annex 1, section K \"Implantologische Leistungen\", numbers the implant items 9000 to 9170 and assigns each a point count — 9010 \"Implantatinsertion, je Implantat\" 1,545 points; 9040 uncovering an implant and fitting abutment parts 626 points; 9000 implant-related analysis and measurement of the jaw, per jaw, 884 points; 9100 alveolar ridge augmentation 2,694 points; 9110 internal sinus lift 1,500 points; 9120 external sinus lift 3,000 points. A crown on an implant is item 2200 \"Versorgung eines Zahnes oder Implantats durch eine Vollkrone (Tangentialpräparation)\", 1,322 points. Section 5(1) fixes the point value at 5.62421 cents and the fee at one to three-and-a-half times the resulting Gebührensatz; section 5(2) states that the 2.3-times rate represents a service of average difficulty and time expenditure.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "de-goz-1987", "quote": "Die Höhe der einzelnen Gebühr bemißt sich nach dem Einfachen bis Dreieinhalbfachen des Gebührensatzes. … Der Punktwert beträgt 5,62421 Cent." }, { "sourceId": "de-goz-anlage-1", "quote": "9010 Implantatinsertion, je Implantat … 1545" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Section 2(1) allows a dentist and payer to agree a different fee level in writing before treatment, which is how charges above the 3.5-times ceiling arise; the point count and the point value themselves may not be varied by agreement." }, "publicFunding": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Statutory health insurance does not pay for implants. Section 28(2) sentence 9 SGB V places implantological services outside insured dental treatment and forbids the sickness funds from even subsidising them, unless one of the rare exception indications set by the Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss applies. Section B.VII of the G-BA Behandlungsrichtlinie lists those cases: larger jaw or facial defects caused by tumour surgery, jaw inflammation, surgery for large cysts or osteopathies, congenital malformations such as cleft lip and palate or ectodermal dysplasia, or accidents; permanently severe xerostomia, particularly during tumour treatment; generalised genetic absence of teeth; and muscular dysfunction of the mouth and face that cannot be voluntarily controlled. Even then implants are covered only where conventional prosthetic treatment without them is not possible. Outside those cases the implant is paid for privately, but the crown or denture carried on it still attracts the finding-related fixed subsidy for the corresponding standard restoration, because section 55(5) SGB V pays that subsidy even when the patient chooses a different form of treatment.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "de-sgb-v-28", "quote": "Das Gleiche gilt für implantologische Leistungen, es sei denn, es liegen seltene vom Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss in Richtlinien nach § 92 Abs. 1 festzulegende Ausnahmeindikationen für besonders schwere Fälle vor" }, { "sourceId": "de-gba-behandlungsrichtlinie-2021" }, { "sourceId": "de-sgb-v-55", "quote": "Die Krankenkassen haben die bewilligten Festzuschüsse … in den Fällen zu erstatten, in denen eine von der Regelversorgung nach § 56 Abs. 2 abweichende, andersartige Versorgung durchgeführt wird." }, { "sourceId": "de-gkv-festzuschuesse-2026" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "For finding 2.1, a single-tooth gap bounded by teeth, the amounts published by the GKV-Spitzenverband from 1 January 2026 are a total of EUR 921.60, of which the fund pays EUR 552.96 at the base 60 per cent, EUR 645.12 at 70 per cent after five years of recorded check-ups, EUR 691.20 at 75 per cent after ten, and the full EUR 921.60 in hardship cases. That is a subsidy towards the restoration, not towards the implant." }, "regulator": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Practising dentistry in Germany on a permanent basis requires an Approbation als Zahnarzt under section 1 of the Gesetz über die Ausübung der Zahnheilkunde. Registration and professional supervision sit with the seventeen regional Zahnärztekammern rather than with a single national body; each chamber runs its own dentist search, and the Bundeszahnärztekammer publishes the index of them at bzaek.de.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "de-zhg", "quote": "Wer im Geltungsbereich dieses Gesetzes die Zahnheilkunde dauernd ausüben will, bedarf einer Approbation als Zahnarzt nach Maßgabe dieses Gesetzes." }, { "sourceId": "de-bzaek-zahnarztsuche", "quote": "Alle (Landes-)Zahnärztekammern stellen auf Ihren Websites eine Zahnarztsuche zur Verfügung." } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "There is no single national public register of dentists comparable to the UK's GDC register, so checking a named German dentist means using the chamber for the relevant federal state." }, "priceIndication": { "kind": "derived_fact", "value": "Regulated professional fee, EUR, as at 22 July 2026 — implant placement (GOZ 9010, per implant) EUR 86.89 at the single rate, EUR 199.86 at 2.3 times, EUR 304.13 at the 3.5-times ceiling; uncovering the implant and fitting the abutment (9040) EUR 35.21 / EUR 80.98 / EUR 123.23; implant-related analysis and measurement per jaw (9000) EUR 49.72 / EUR 114.35 / EUR 174.01; full crown on an implant (2200) EUR 74.35 / EUR 171.01 / EUR 260.23; alveolar ridge augmentation (9100) EUR 151.52 / EUR 348.49 / EUR 530.31; external sinus lift (9120) EUR 168.73 / EUR 388.07 / EUR 590.54.", "derivedFrom": [ "de-goz-1987", "de-goz-anlage-1" ], "rule": "Point count from GOZ Annex 1 multiplied by the point value of 5.62421 cents fixed in section 5(1), then multiplied by the chosen factor; rounding to the nearest cent applied only after that multiplication, as section 5(1) sentence 4 requires.", "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "These are the dentist's fees and nothing more. The general provisions to section K state that the implant itself, its component parts and single-use implant drills are chargeable separately, laboratory work is passed through at actual cost under section 9, and augmentation items are added where the bone requires them. A German private quotation for one implant and a crown is therefore the sum of several schedule items plus materials, not a single schedule figure — and it is not comparable with a package price quoted elsewhere." }, "vatOrTax": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Dental treatment is exempt from VAT under section 4 no. 14(a) of the Umsatzsteuergesetz. The exemption expressly does not extend to the supply or repair of dentures and orthodontic appliances that the dentist has made in their own practice; those fall under the reduced rate of 7 per cent set by section 12(2) no. 6, against a standard rate of 19 per cent.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "de-ustg-4", "quote": "Satz 1 gilt nicht für die Lieferung oder Wiederherstellung von Zahnprothesen … soweit sie der Unternehmer in seinem Unternehmen hergestellt oder wiederhergestellt hat" }, { "sourceId": "de-ustg-12", "quote": "Die Steuer ermäßigt sich auf sieben Prozent … 6. die Leistungen aus der Tätigkeit als Zahntechniker sowie die in § 4 Nr. 14 Buchstabe a Satz 2 bezeichneten Leistungen der Zahnärzte" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22" }, "whatDrivesCost": { "kind": "editorial_interpretation", "text": "Three things move a German quotation, and only one of them is the schedule. The first is the multiplier: the same item can be billed at anything from 1.0 to 3.5, a spread of more than three to one on the professional fee, and above 3.5 by written agreement under section 2. The second is what sits outside the schedule entirely — the implant and its parts, the drills, and the laboratory work for the crown, all charged at cost or at list price, which is where the choice of implant system and of a domestic or overseas laboratory shows up. The third is whether the bone needs building first: the augmentation items are among the largest in section K, and a case that needs an external sinus lift carries a fee several times that of the placement itself. Because the point value has not moved since the 2012 amendment, the regulated component has quietly become the smaller part of many invoices, which is why comparing two German quotes means comparing the multipliers and the material lines, not the item numbers.", "author": "editorial", "lastReviewed": "2026-07-22" } }, "certifications": [], "sources": [ { "id": "de-goz-1987", "title": "Gebührenordnung für Zahnärzte (GOZ) — full text, including § 5 Bemessung der Gebühren", "publisher": "Bundesministerium der Justiz / Bundesamt für Justiz", "url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/goz_1987/BJNR023160987.html", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "National fee regulation", "publishedDate": "1987-10-22", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "de-goz-anlage-1", "title": "GOZ Anlage 1 — Gebührenverzeichnis für zahnärztliche Leistungen, Abschnitt K Implantologische Leistungen", "publisher": "Bundesministerium der Justiz / Bundesamt für Justiz", "url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/goz_1987/anlage_1.html", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Statutory fee schedule (annex to a federal regulation)", "publishedDate": "2011-12-05", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "de-sgb-v-28", "title": "Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB) Fünftes Buch — § 28 Ärztliche und zahnärztliche Behandlung", "publisher": "Bundesministerium der Justiz / Bundesamt für Justiz", "url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_5/__28.html", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal statute governing statutory health insurance benefits", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "de-gba-behandlungsrichtlinie-2021", "title": "Behandlungsrichtlinie — Richtlinie für eine ausreichende, zweckmäßige und wirtschaftliche vertragszahnärztliche Versorgung, Abschnitt B.VII Ausnahmeindikationen für implantologische Leistungen", "publisher": "Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss (G-BA)", "url": "https://www.g-ba.de/downloads/62-492-2784/RL-Z_Behandlung_2021-12-16_iK-2022-03-09.pdf", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Binding directive of the statutory payer/provider self-government body", "publishedDate": "2021-12-16", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "de-sgb-v-55", "title": "Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB) Fünftes Buch — § 55 Leistungsanspruch (befundbezogene Festzuschüsse bei Zahnersatz)", "publisher": "Bundesministerium der Justiz / Bundesamt für Justiz", "url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_5/__55.html", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal statute governing statutory health insurance benefits", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "de-gkv-festzuschuesse-2026", "title": "Festzuschussbeträge ab 01.01.2026 — befundbezogene Festzuschüsse für Zahnersatz", "publisher": "GKV-Spitzenverband", "url": "https://www.gkv-spitzenverband.de/media/dokumente/krankenversicherung_1/zahnaerztliche_versorgung/rili_g_ba/2026-01-01-FZ-Betraege.pdf", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Payer body's published schedule of fixed subsidy amounts", "publishedDate": "2026-01-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "de-zhg", "title": "Gesetz über die Ausübung der Zahnheilkunde (ZHG) — § 1 Approbation als Zahnarzt", "publisher": "Bundesministerium der Justiz / Bundesamt für Justiz", "url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/zhg/__1.html", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal statute licensing the dental profession", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "de-bzaek-zahnarztsuche", "title": "Zahnarztsuche — index of the dentist registers kept by the regional Zahnärztekammern", "publisher": "Bundeszahnärztekammer (BZÄK)", "url": "https://www.bzaek.de/fuer-patienten/zahnarztsuche.html", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "National dental chamber's public directory portal", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "de-ustg-4", "title": "Umsatzsteuergesetz — § 4 Steuerbefreiungen bei Lieferungen und sonstigen Leistungen (Nr. 14 Heilbehandlungen)", "publisher": "Bundesministerium der Justiz / Bundesamt für Justiz", "url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ustg_1980/__4.html", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal tax statute", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "de-ustg-12", "title": "Umsatzsteuergesetz — § 12 Steuersätze (Abs. 2 Nr. 6 zahntechnische Leistungen)", "publisher": "Bundesministerium der Justiz / Bundesamt für Justiz", "url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ustg_1980/__12.html", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal tax statute", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" } ] }, { "id": "switzerland", "type": "country", "name": "Switzerland", "url": "https://dental-implants-guide.com/countries/switzerland/", "aliases": [ "Schweiz", "Suisse", "Svizzera", "Swiss Confederation" ], "definition": "Dental treatment in Switzerland is paid for privately: compulsory basic health insurance covers it only for a closed list of severe conditions, and the one binding fee schedule — the Zahnarzttarif UV/MV/IV — applies to accident, military and disability insurance rather than to a self-paying patient.", "specs": { "officialFeeSchedule": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The Zahnarzttarif UV/MV/IV, tariff code 222, has been in force since 1 January 2018. It was agreed between the Medizinaltarif-Kommission UVG, Suva's military insurance division, the Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen for the disability insurance and the Schweizerische Zahnärzte-Gesellschaft SSO, and its catalogue is published free to the public. Chapter 05.04 \"Implantation\" carries the implant items with their tax point counts — 4.2530 first implant placement 669.40 points; 4.2540 and 4.2540A each further implant 401.00; 4.2545 first mini-implant 334.70; 4.2570 second-stage uncovering 118.50; 4.2580 fitting and removing auxiliary parts 80.20; 4.2610 augmentation at the time of placement 289.40; 4.2510 sinus floor elevation with simultaneous placement by lateral approach 324.20; 4.2590 removal of an integrated implant 289.40. Chapter 10 gives 4.7085 \"Implantatkrone\" 652.00 points. The MTK publishes the point value for tariff 222 at CHF 1.00, unchanged since the tariff came into force. For private patients the same structure is issued as DENTOTAR, where the point count moves within a band of plus or minus fifteen per cent of the mean according to difficulty and the point value is set by each dentist on their own business calculation.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ch-zahnarzttarif-222-katalog", "quote": "4.2530 Erste Implantation … TP (UV/MV/IV) 669.40" }, { "sourceId": "ch-mtk-taxpunktwerte-2026", "quote": "222 Zahnarzt-Tarif 01.01.2018 1.00" }, { "sourceId": "ch-mtk-zahnarzttarif-222" }, { "sourceId": "ch-sso-dentotar", "quote": "Für Privatpatienten wird der Rahmentarif bestehend aus einem Rahmen für die Taxpunktzahl von +/-15% vom Mittelwert (abhängig vom Schwierigkeitsgrad) multipliziert mit dem Taxpunktwert für Privatpatienten, welcher vom Zahnarzt gestützt auf seine betriebswirtschaftlichen Berechnungen festgelegt wird, angewendet." } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "The catalogue states that it is \"für die interessierte Öffentlichkeit frei einsehbar\", so the tariff structure is not member-restricted. A separate 1994 catalogue with a point value of CHF 3.10 remains in use for the rare dental claims that basic health insurance does cover." }, "publicFunding": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Compulsory basic health insurance does not pay for dental treatment as a rule, and never on the basis of the procedure. Article 31 KVG covers dental treatment only where it is caused by a serious, unavoidable disease of the masticatory system, or caused by or necessary for the treatment of a serious general illness, or where the damage results from an accident. Articles 17 to 19a KLV set out that list — conditions such as jaw tumours, cysts unrelated to the teeth, osteomyelitis of the jaw, temporomandibular joint disease, leukaemia, severe bleeding disorders, hyperparathyroidism and salivary gland disease — and the Federal Supreme Court has held that list to be exhaustive. Implants are not named anywhere in it: where they are paid for at all, it is because the underlying illness qualifies, not because the treatment is an implant.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ch-kvg", "quote": "Die obligatorische Krankenpflegeversicherung übernimmt die Kosten der zahnärztlichen Behandlung, wenn diese: a. durch eine schwere, nicht vermeidbare Erkrankung des Kausystems bedingt ist" }, { "sourceId": "ch-klv" }, { "sourceId": "ch-bag-leistungen-tarife", "quote": "Grundsätzlich werden zahnärztliche Behandlungen nicht übernommen." } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Accident-related dental damage is handled by the accident insurer rather than the health insurer, which is why the only binding dental price list in Switzerland is an accident, military and disability insurance tariff." }, "regulator": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Dentists are one of the five university medical professions governed by the Medizinalberufegesetz. Since 1 January 2018 every dentist working in Switzerland must appear in the Medizinalberuferegister (MedReg), which the Bundesamt für Gesundheit operates and which is publicly searchable at healthreg-public.admin.ch. The public entry shows the practitioner's GLN identifier, diploma, postgraduate qualifications and specialisations, language skills, the licence to practise under their own professional responsibility granted by the cantonal authority, any conditions or restrictions attached to that licence, and the practice address and telephone number.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ch-bag-medreg", "quote": "Im Medizinalberuferegister müssen aufgrund des revidierten Medizinalberufegesetzes seit 1. Januar 2018 alle in der Schweiz tätigen universitären Medizinalpersonen verzeichnet werden." }, { "sourceId": "ch-medreg-search" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "The licence to practise is granted by the canton, not federally, so restrictions recorded against a dentist are cantonal decisions surfaced through the federal register." }, "priceIndication": { "kind": "derived_fact", "value": "Binding social-insurance tariff, CHF, point value as at 1 January 2026 — first implant placement (4.2530) CHF 669.40; each further implant at the same procedure (4.2540 / 4.2540A) CHF 401.00; first mini-implant (4.2545) CHF 334.70; second-stage uncovering of a two-stage implant (4.2570) CHF 118.50; fitting and removing auxiliary parts (4.2580) CHF 80.20; augmentation at the time of placement (4.2610) CHF 289.40; sinus floor elevation with simultaneous placement, lateral approach (4.2510) CHF 324.20; crown on an implant (4.7085) CHF 652.00; removal of an integrated implant (4.2590) CHF 289.40. No equivalent figure exists for a self-paying patient.", "derivedFrom": [ "ch-zahnarzttarif-222-katalog", "ch-mtk-taxpunktwerte-2026", "ch-sso-dentotar" ], "rule": "Tax point count for the item in the Zahnarzt-Tarif UV/MV/IV (tariff 222) multiplied by the point value of CHF 1.00 that the MTK publishes for that tariff; because the point value is exactly one, the published point count is the fee in Swiss francs.", "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "These figures bind only accident, military and disability insurance cases, which the SSO puts at two to three per cent of Swiss dental spending, and each of them is subject to the insurer agreeing the treatment in advance. They are professional fees: the tariff states that implants, fixed auxiliary parts and single-use instruments are reimbursed at the manufacturer's list price plus 20 per cent, and that laboratory work is billed separately. For a private patient the same catalogue is used as DENTOTAR with a point count band of plus or minus fifteen per cent and a point value each practice sets for itself, and that point value is not published anywhere — so a private Swiss implant price cannot be read off an official document." }, "vatOrTax": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Treatment provided by a licensed dentist is exempt from Swiss VAT under article 21(2)(3) of the Mehrwertsteuergesetz. The exemption does not reach prostheses: the statute states that supplying self-made or bought-in prostheses and orthopaedic appliances counts as a taxable supply, which is charged at the standard rate of 8.1 per cent set by article 25(1). The implant positions in tariff 222 are marked \"MwSt-Satz: Kein Satz\".", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "ch-mwstg", "quote": "die von Ärzten und Ärztinnen, Zahnärzten und Zahnärztinnen … erbrachten Heilbehandlungen im Bereich der Humanmedizin, soweit die Leistungserbringer und Leistungserbringerinnen über eine Berufsausübungsbewilligung verfügen … Die Abgabe von selbst hergestellten oder zugekauften Prothesen und orthopädischen Apparaten gilt als steuerbare Lieferung" }, { "sourceId": "ch-zahnarzttarif-222-katalog" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22" }, "whatDrivesCost": { "kind": "editorial_interpretation", "text": "The variable that decides a Swiss private quotation is the one number the country does not publish: the point value the practice applies to the DENTOTAR catalogue. Everything else is fixed and public — the item list, the point count for each item, and the fifteen per cent band that difficulty is allowed to move it within — so two practices billing the same treatment differ mainly by their own cost calculation, which reflects rent, staff costs and equipment in the canton they sit in. On top of the professional fee sit the same pass-through lines as elsewhere: the implant and its fixed auxiliary parts at the manufacturer's list price with a twenty per cent surcharge under the tariff's own material rule, and the laboratory work for the crown billed separately under the dental technician tariff. Whether basic insurance is involved at all almost never turns on the implant and almost always on the diagnosis behind it, so a patient who has been told their treatment might be covered should ask which article of the KLV their condition is being claimed under before anything else.", "author": "editorial", "lastReviewed": "2026-07-22" } }, "certifications": [], "sources": [ { "id": "ch-zahnarzttarif-222-katalog", "title": "Leistungskatalog Zahnarzt-Tarif UV/MV/IV (Tarif 222), Offline-Tarifbrowser V1.04 — Kapitel 05.04 Implantation, Kapitel 10 Kronen- und Brückenprothetik", "publisher": "Zentralstelle für Medizinaltarife UVG (ZMT), for MTK, Suva Militärversicherung, Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen and Schweizerische Zahnärzte-Gesellschaft SSO", "url": "https://www.mtk-ctm.ch/download_file/e391b65e-cc84-47e9-b930-9880b15a3c90/463", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Full tariff catalogue with per-item tax point counts", "publishedDate": "2021-06-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ch-mtk-taxpunktwerte-2026", "title": "Aktuelle Taxpunktwerte für UV/MV/IV-Patienten (Stand 01.01.2026)", "publisher": "Zentralstelle für Medizinaltarife UVG (ZMT) / Medizinaltarif-Kommission UVG (MTK)", "url": "https://www.mtk-ctm.ch/download_file/2d674071-2a41-4113-9d50-18f52d8eb72b/283", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Published tax point values for the federal social insurance tariffs", "publishedDate": "2026-01-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ch-mtk-zahnarzttarif-222", "title": "Tarif 222 — Zahnarzt-Tarif UV/MV/IV (SSO): tariff page and contract documents", "publisher": "Zentralstelle für Medizinaltarife UVG (ZMT) / Medizinaltarif-Kommission UVG (MTK)", "url": "https://www.mtk-ctm.ch/tarife/zahnarzt", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Tariff agreed between the federal social insurers (UV/MV/IV) and the national dental association", "publishedDate": "2018-01-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ch-sso-dentotar", "title": "DENTOTAR® — die Kalkulationshilfe für Privatpatienten", "publisher": "Schweizerische Zahnärzte-Gesellschaft SSO", "url": "https://www.sso.ch/de/Abrechnung-Dentotar", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "National dental association's private-patient tariff framework", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ch-kvg", "title": "Bundesgesetz über die Krankenversicherung (KVG, SR 832.10) — Art. 31 Zahnärztliche Behandlungen", "publisher": "Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft — Fedlex, Systematische Rechtssammlung", "url": "https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1995/1328_1328_1328/de", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal statute governing compulsory health insurance", "publishedDate": "1994-03-18", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ch-klv", "title": "Krankenpflege-Leistungsverordnung (KLV, SR 832.112.31) — Art. 17–19a, the closed list of dental conditions covered by basic insurance", "publisher": "Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern (EDI) — Fedlex, Systematische Rechtssammlung", "url": "https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1995/4964_4964_4964/de", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal ordinance listing insured benefits", "publishedDate": "1995-09-29", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ch-bag-leistungen-tarife", "title": "Krankenversicherung: Leistungen und Tarife — \"Übernimmt die obligatorische Krankenpflegeversicherung zahnärztliche Behandlungen?\"", "publisher": "Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG)", "url": "https://www.bag.admin.ch/de/krankenversicherung-leistungen-und-tarife", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal health authority's statement of insured benefits", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ch-bag-medreg", "title": "Medizinalberuferegister MedReg — what is recorded and which data are public", "publisher": "Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG)", "url": "https://www.bag.admin.ch/de/medizinalberuferegister-medreg", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal register of the university medical professions, including dentists", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ch-medreg-search", "title": "MedReg — public search for registered medical professionals", "publisher": "Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG)", "url": "https://www.healthreg-public.admin.ch/medreg/search", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Public register search interface", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "ch-mwstg", "title": "Bundesgesetz über die Mehrwertsteuer (MWSTG, SR 641.20) — Art. 21 Abs. 2 Ziff. 3 and Art. 25 Steuersätze", "publisher": "Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft — Fedlex, Systematische Rechtssammlung", "url": "https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/filestore/fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/cc/2009/615/20240101/de/pdf-a/fedlex-data-admin-ch-eli-cc-2009-615-20240101-de-pdf-a.pdf", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal tax statute", "publishedDate": "2009-06-12", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" } ] }, { "id": "turkey", "type": "country", "name": "Turkey", "url": "https://dental-implants-guide.com/countries/turkey/", "aliases": [ "Türkiye", "Turkiye" ], "definition": "Turkey has a published national dental fee tariff, but it is a guide rather than a binding minimum, and its implant item deliberately excludes the price of the implant itself.", "specs": { "officialFeeSchedule": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The Turkish Dental Association (Türk Dişhekimleri Birliği) publishes an annual national tariff, the Ağız Diş Sağlığı Muayene ve Tedavi Ücret Tarifesi. The 2026 edition states on its cover that it applies in every province and district.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "tr-tdb-tarife-2026" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22" }, "scheduleStatus": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "A guide tariff (rehber tarife), not a binding minimum. The association describes it as \"rehber tarife\" following Decree Law 663 and amendments to Law 3224, and lists its tariffs as asgari (minimum) for 2001–2011 and rehber (guide) from 2012 onward. It takes effect once the association's central board adopts it and notifies the Ministry of Health.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "tr-tdb-tarife-status" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Widely reported as an \"asgari ücret tarifesi\" — a binding minimum — including by clinics quoting it. It has not been that since 2012, so a clinic charging below it is not breaking a rule." }, "priceIndication": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Placing an endosseous implant (item 5-33, Kemik İçi İmplant) is listed at 20,400.00 TRY excluding VAT, 22,440.00 TRY including VAT at 10%. The item is titled \"Tek Silindirik İmplant Ücreti Hariç\" — excluding the cost of the implant itself. A ceramic crown on an implant (item 4-23) is listed at 12,436.36 TRY excluding VAT, 13,680.00 TRY including VAT, and is titled \"Abutment Ücreti Hariç\", excluding the abutment.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "tr-tdb-tarife-2026" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "These are guide figures for the clinical work only. The fixture and the abutment are components, priced separately by brand, and the tariff does not cover them at all — so neither figure, nor the two added together, is the price of a finished implant." }, "relatedTariffItems": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Sinus lifting (5-22) 14,465.00 TRY including VAT, excluding the biomaterial. Hard-tissue grafting (5-20) 15,950.00 TRY including VAT, excluding the graft. Zygomatic implant (5-54) 49,500.00 TRY including VAT, excluding the implant. Surgical treatment of peri-implantitis (6-19) 6,875.00 TRY including VAT. Implant removal (5-51) 10,450.00 TRY including VAT.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "tr-tdb-tarife-2026" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "The pattern repeats across the tariff: the procedure is priced, the material is not. Read every \"Ücreti Hariç\" as a line you will be quoted separately for." }, "vatOrTax": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The tariff prices every item twice, excluding VAT and including VAT at 10%.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "tr-tdb-tarife-2026" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22" }, "surcharges": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The tariff's own application rules raise fees in defined circumstances: treatment under general anaesthesia by 50%, treatment carried out where the patient is rather than at the surgery by 50%, and certain out-of-hours procedures by 50%. Where surgical work needs prosthetic work, the prosthesis fees are added on top.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "tr-tdb-tarife-2026" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22" }, "publicFunding": { "kind": "unknown", "reason": "not_publicly_verified", "note": "Whether and when SGK reimburses implant treatment should come from the Sağlık Uygulama Tebliği (SUT) itself. The SGK homepage does not state it and we have not yet located the current SUT provision, so we are not going to summarise it from secondary sources. The TDB tariff is a private-practice tariff and does not answer the question." }, "whatDrivesCost": { "kind": "editorial_interpretation", "text": "Because the tariff prices the surgery and not the component, the single biggest variable in a Turkish quote is which implant is being placed — and that is exactly the item least often named in a package price. Ask for the system by name and the abutment separately, then compare that against the tariff figure to see what the clinic has added. The second variable is what a package bundles: transfers, hotel nights and a driver are real costs, but they are not clinical ones, and a headline number that includes them cannot be compared with a Western fee for the surgery alone. Turkey also runs a Ministry of Health authorisation scheme for international health tourism, which is checkable per clinic and is a more useful signal than any price.", "author": "editorial", "lastReviewed": "2026-07-22" }, "clinicStatedPrice": { "kind": "clinic_stated", "value": "Taki Dent publishes a price list giving a dental implant from £400 / €475 per implant. It is headed \"single-unit reference prices\" and each column reads \"From\", so it is a starting figure rather than a quotation. Crowns are priced separately on the same list — a premium zirconia crown from £185 / €215, an Empress or e.max crown from £285 / €325.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "takident-price-list" } ], "clinic": "Taki Dent", "statedOn": "2026-07-22", "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Read alongside the tariff row above, this is the same trap in a different form: the £400 buys the implant, not the finished tooth. By the clinic’s own table a single implant restored with a zirconia crown starts at £585, and that is before any grafting. We have not audited these figures; they are what the clinic published on the date shown." }, "clinicStatedInclusions": { "kind": "clinic_stated", "value": "The clinic states its prices include the clinical treatment, materials, local anaesthesia or sedation where required, temporary restorations and in-clinic follow-up during the stay, with no consultation fee. It states flights, accommodation and personal expenses are excluded, and that anything found during treatment — bone grafting is its own example — is quoted and agreed before proceeding.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "takident-price-list" } ], "clinic": "Taki Dent", "statedOn": "2026-07-22", "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Useful because it is specific about the two things most quotes leave vague: what happens when grafting turns out to be needed, and whether the consultation is chargeable. Get the same two answers in writing from any clinic you are comparing." }, "clinicStatedGuarantee": { "kind": "clinic_stated", "value": "A 5–10 year guarantee on crowns and restorations.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "takident-price-list" } ], "clinic": "Taki Dent", "statedOn": "2026-07-22", "confidence": "medium", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Stated for crowns and restorations. The page does not extend it to the implant fixture, does not publish the terms, and does not say what voids it — so the range is recorded and the terms are not. Ask for the written guarantee document before treatment, at this or any clinic." } }, "certifications": [], "sources": [ { "id": "tr-tdb-tarife-2026", "title": "2026 Yılı Dişhekimlerinin Uygulayacakları Ağız Diş Sağlığı Muayene ve Tedavi Ücret Tarifesi (Rehber Tarife)", "publisher": "Türk Dişhekimleri Birliği", "url": "https://www.tdb.org.tr/tdb/v2/ekler/2026_Yili_Rehber_Tarife_Kitapcigi.pdf", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "National dental association guide fee tariff (PDF)", "publishedDate": "2026-01-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "tr-tdb-tarife-status", "title": "Tedavi Ücretleri — tarifenin hukuki niteliği ve yürürlüğe girişi", "publisher": "Türk Dişhekimleri Birliği", "url": "https://www.tdb.org.tr/menu_goster.php?Id=11", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "Professional body statement on the legal status of its tariff", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "takident-price-list", "title": "Treatment Price List — Taki Dent", "publisher": "Taki Dent", "url": "https://www.takident.com/en/prices", "tier": "clinic_primary", "sourceType": "Clinic's own published price list", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" } ] }, { "id": "united-kingdom", "type": "country", "name": "United Kingdom", "url": "https://dental-implants-guide.com/countries/united-kingdom/", "aliases": [ "UK", "Great Britain", "England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland" ], "definition": "Implant treatment in the UK is almost always private and privately priced: the NHS publishes exact, dated patient charges for the treatment it does provide, but no NHS charge band or item covers a routine dental implant, and no official schedule governs what a private practice may charge.", "specs": { "officialFeeSchedule": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "England publishes statutory NHS patient charges as three banded charges for a course of treatment, set by statutory instrument and revised each April. From 1 April 2026 they are Band 1 £27.90, Band 2 £76.60 and Band 3 £332.10 (SI 2026/265, made 9 March 2026, in force 1 April 2026, increasing the previous £27.40 / £75.30 / £326.70). These are patient contributions towards a course of NHS treatment, not a per-procedure tariff, and no band covers a routine dental implant. There is no official fee schedule of any kind for private dentistry in the UK.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "uk-si-2026-265-dental-charges", "quote": "the charge payable for Band 3 courses of treatment is increased from £326.70 to £332.10" }, { "sourceId": "uk-nhs-dental-costs" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "England only. SI 2026/265 is expressed as extending to England and Wales, but Wales sets its own charges separately (see devolvedCharges). The figures are per course of treatment, however many appointments it takes." }, "devolvedCharges": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The four UK nations charge on different systems. England uses the three bands above. Wales replaced banding with itemised care packages: from 1 April 2026 a new patient assessment is £27.21, a recall £25.00 per visit, urgent care £37.50, a simple restorative package £36.03, a crown/bridge/inlay/onlay/veneer package £140.44 and a denture package £86.40, with a maximum total of £384 per course. Scotland charges no fee for an examination and NHS patients who pay contribute 80% of the cost of treatment, capped at £384 per course. Northern Ireland likewise charges 80% of the gross cost of treatment up to a maximum of £384. None of these schedules contains an implant item.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "uk-wales-dental-charges", "quote": "There is a maximum total charge of £384 for a course of treatment" }, { "sourceId": "uk-scotland-dental-charges", "quote": "NHS patients who pay for their treatment pay 80% of the treatment costs. This continues to be capped at a maximum of £384 per course of treatment." }, { "sourceId": "uk-ni-dental-charges", "quote": "The patient is required to pay 80% of the gross cost of the treatments up to a maximum of £384" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "The Welsh figures are as published on 1 April 2026; Wales moved off Band 1/2/3 to care packages. Scotland's published per-item patient charge table is stated as correct at 1 November 2025. The Northern Ireland £384 cap is dated 1 April 2007 on the BSO page and appears not to have been uprated since." }, "publicFunding": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Implants are usually only available privately. The NHS states that implants are sometimes available on the NHS for patients who cannot wear dentures for certain reasons, such as mouth cancer or an accident. There is no NHS charge band that prices an implant for a patient who does not meet those criteria.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "uk-nhs-dental-treatments", "quote": "Implants are usually only available privately and are expensive." }, { "sourceId": "uk-scotland-dental-charges", "quote": "Procedures which are cosmetic or aesthetic in nature are usually only available privately. For example, white fillings, tooth whitening or dental implants." } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "NHS-funded implant provision sits in hospital restorative dentistry under local referral criteria, not in the general dental services charge bands, which is why no band or item number prices it." }, "regulator": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The General Dental Council is the UK-wide statutory regulator for dental professionals. It maintains a public register, searchable by name, town or registration number and updated daily, which confirms whether a dental professional is registered and able to practise in the UK.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "uk-gdc" }, { "sourceId": "uk-gdc-register", "quote": "confirm whether a dental professional is registered with us and able to practise in the UK" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Public register: https://olr.gdc-uk.org/searchregister — a UK clinician should be willing to give their GDC number on request." }, "priceIndication": { "kind": "unknown", "reason": "not_publicly_verified", "note": "No official or published figure exists for the cost of a dental implant in the UK. Checked on 2026-07-22: the England NHS charge regulations (SI 2026/265) and the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish patient charge schedules, none of which contains an implant item; the NHS's own treatment pages, which state only that implants are usually private and expensive without giving a figure; and the GDC, which regulates practice but does not publish or approve fees. There is no UK statutory private tariff and no dental association fee guide equivalent to the German GOZ or a Canadian provincial fee guide. Any UK implant price a reader encounters is a single practice's own quotation, and is only comparable with another once both are itemised." }, "whatDrivesCost": { "kind": "editorial_interpretation", "text": "Because nothing in the UK anchors a price, the spread between quotations is driven almost entirely by what is inside the quotation. The four things that move it most are scope, bone, complexity and who does the work. Scope: a figure that covers only the fixture is not comparable with one covering fixture, abutment and crown, and \"per implant\" pricing for a multi-unit case can exclude the bridge entirely. Bone: grafting, sinus augmentation or ridge preservation are separate procedures with their own costs, and whether they are quoted upfront or discovered later is the largest single source of surprise. Complexity: an immediately placed implant in an aesthetic front-tooth site, or a full-arch case, involves work that a single posterior implant in healed bone does not. And the operator matters — a specialist in oral surgery, periodontics or restorative dentistry on the GDC's specialist lists prices differently from a general dentist, as does whether CBCT imaging, guided surgery and sedation are included or billed separately. Aftercare is the commonly missed line: ask what the review schedule is, what happens if the implant fails, and whether the crown is covered separately from the fixture, because UK practices differ widely on all three and none of it is regulated.", "author": "editorial", "lastReviewed": "2026-07-22" } }, "certifications": [], "sources": [ { "id": "uk-si-2026-265-dental-charges", "title": "The National Health Service (Primary Dental Services and Dental Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/265)", "publisher": "UK Statutory Instruments — legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/265/made", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Statutory instrument setting NHS dental patient charges", "publishedDate": "2026-03-09", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "uk-nhs-dental-costs", "title": "How much NHS dental treatment costs", "publisher": "NHS (nhs.uk)", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/how-much-nhs-dental-treatment-costs/", "tier": "guideline", "sourceType": "National health service patient charge guidance (England)", "publishedDate": "2025-03-13", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "uk-wales-dental-charges", "title": "NHS dental charges and exemptions (Wales)", "publisher": "Welsh Government (GOV.WALES)", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/nhs-dental-charges-and-exemptions", "tier": "guideline", "sourceType": "National health service patient charge schedule (Wales)", "publishedDate": "2026-04-01", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "uk-scotland-dental-charges", "title": "Receiving NHS dental treatment in Scotland", "publisher": "NHS inform (NHS 24, Scotland)", "url": "https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/dental/receiving-nhs-dental-treatment-in-scotland/", "tier": "guideline", "sourceType": "National health service patient charge guidance (Scotland)", "publishedDate": "2026-01-07", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "uk-ni-dental-charges", "title": "Dental Charges & Fees — Family Practitioner Services", "publisher": "HSC Business Services Organisation (Northern Ireland)", "url": "https://bso.hscni.net/directorates/operations/family-practitioner-services/dental-services/dental-charges-fees/", "tier": "guideline", "sourceType": "Health service patient charge guidance (Northern Ireland)", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "uk-nhs-dental-treatments", "title": "Dental treatments — Healthy teeth and gums", "publisher": "NHS (nhs.uk)", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-teeth-and-gums/dental-treatments/", "tier": "guideline", "sourceType": "National health service treatment availability guidance", "publishedDate": "2026-07-08", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "uk-gdc", "title": "General Dental Council — the UK regulator for dental professionals", "publisher": "General Dental Council", "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Statutory healthcare regulator", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "uk-gdc-register", "title": "Search the Registers — GDC online register of dental professionals", "publisher": "General Dental Council", "url": "https://olr.gdc-uk.org/searchregister", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Statutory public register", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" } ] }, { "id": "united-states", "type": "country", "name": "United States", "url": "https://dental-implants-guide.com/countries/united-states/", "aliases": [ "USA", "United States of America", "US" ], "definition": "The United States has a national procedure code set for dentistry but no national fee schedule: dentists are licensed state by state, prices are set practice by practice, and the only official published dental fee schedules are state instruments that bind particular payers rather than the private market.", "specs": { "officialFeeSchedule": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "There is no national dental fee schedule in the United States. The American Dental Association states that it cannot quote fees for dental procedures and is forbidden by federal law to set or recommend fees, and that its Council on Dental Practice discontinued the Survey of Dental Fees in 2023, removing it from download after a change in law eliminated safe harbour disclosure. Official dental fee schedules exist only at state level and bind particular payers — for example the Official New York Workers' Compensation Dental Fee Schedule, made under 12 NYCRR Part 444, which sets maximum fees for treating a work-related injury in New York State.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "us-ada-dental-care-market", "quote": "The ADA cannot quote fees for dental procedures and is forbidden by federal law to set or recommend fees. The Council on Dental Practice elected to discontinue the Survey of Dental Fees in 2023 and it has been removed for download, due to a change in law eliminating safe harbor disclosure." }, { "sourceId": "us-ny-wcb-dental-fee-schedule-page" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "The brief for this record assumed the ADA Health Policy Institute still publishes a paywalled Survey of Dental Fees. It does not — the survey was discontinued in 2023 and withdrawn, so figures attributed to it are at least four years old whatever their source claims." }, "procedureCoding": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Dental procedures are identified nationally by the Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (the CDT Code), maintained by the American Dental Association and named by CMS as one of the code sets adopted under HIPAA for use in electronic health care transactions. The CDT assigns a code to each procedure but attaches no price: D6010 is the surgical placement of an implant body (endosteal implant), D6057 a custom fabricated abutment and D6058 an abutment-supported porcelain or ceramic crown.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "us-ada-cdt-code", "quote": "The Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (the CDT Code) assures consistency in documenting dental treatment." }, { "sourceId": "us-cms-hipaa-code-sets", "quote": "CDT – Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature" }, { "sourceId": "us-ny-wcb-dental-fee-schedule-2025" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "This matters practically: a US quotation that lists CDT codes can be compared line for line against an insurer's schedule and against a cost-lookup tool. One that lists only \"implant package\" cannot." }, "priceIndication": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "The Official New York Workers' Compensation Dental Fee Schedule, Second Edition, effective 13 November 2025, sets these maximum fees (USD, CDT 2025 codes): D6010 surgical placement of implant body, endosteal implant — $2,100.00; D6056 prefabricated abutment — $840.00; D6057 custom fabricated abutment — $971.00; D6058 abutment-supported porcelain/ceramic crown — $1,470.00; D6065 implant-supported porcelain/ceramic crown — $2,440.00; D6013 surgical placement of a mini implant — $945.00. Related bone work: D7951 sinus augmentation via a lateral open approach — $2,100.00; D7953 bone replacement graft for ridge preservation, per site — $560.00.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "us-ny-wcb-dental-fee-schedule-2025", "page": "Second Edition, effective November 13, 2025", "quote": "D6010 SURGICAL PLACEMENT OF IMPLANT BODY: ENDOSTEAL IMPLANT $2,100.00" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Read the scope before the number. These are maximum fees a dental provider may charge a workers' compensation insurance carrier for treating a work-related injury in New York State; most of the implant codes also require prior authorisation. They are not prices for private treatment, not a New York private average, and not a national figure. They are recorded here because they are a genuine official, dated, per-procedure US dental schedule that shows what the separate components of an implant case are priced as. Schedule fees may be exceeded by 25% where the carrier has filed a notice of controversy. The First Edition of 1 March 2009 (D6010 at $1,800.00) was superseded on 13 November 2025." }, "singleImplantScheduleTotal": { "kind": "derived_fact", "value": "$4,541.00 for one implant restored with a custom abutment and a ceramic crown (D6010 $2,100.00 + D6057 $971.00 + D6058 $1,470.00), under the New York workers' compensation schedule effective 13 November 2025. Restoring the same implant with a screw-retained implant-supported ceramic crown instead (D6010 + D6065) totals $4,540.00.", "derivedFrom": [ "specs.priceIndication" ], "rule": "Sum of the individual published maximum fees for the CDT codes that make up a single-tooth implant restoration; no adjustment, uplift or currency conversion applied.", "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Arithmetic on one payer's schedule, not a market price. It excludes diagnosis, imaging, extraction, any grafting or sinus work, sedation and follow-up, each of which is a separately coded and separately priced line in the same schedule." }, "nationalPriceIndication": { "kind": "unknown", "reason": "not_publicly_verified", "note": "No authoritative national figure for the cost of a dental implant in the United States exists to record. Checked on 2026-07-22: the ADA Health Policy Institute, which states it is forbidden by federal law to set or recommend fees and discontinued its Survey of Dental Fees in 2023; the ADA CDT Code, which numbers procedures without pricing them; Medicare, which does not cover implants in most cases and so publishes no allowance for them; and FAIR Health's consumer estimator, which is free and public but returns an interactive ZIP-code-specific estimate behind a terms-of-use acceptance rather than a published national figure that can be cited and dated. A single national average would in any case misdescribe a country where fees are set practice by practice in fifty separate licensing jurisdictions." }, "publicFunding": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "Medicare does not fund implants for most beneficiaries. CMS states that in most cases Medicare does not cover dental services like routine cleanings, fillings, tooth extractions, or items like dentures and implants; the exceptions are dental services tied to a covered medical treatment, such as an oral examination before a heart valve replacement or an organ transplant, or removal of an oral infection before cancer treatment or dialysis. For non-covered services the beneficiary pays all costs.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "us-medicare-dental-coverage", "quote": "In most cases, Medicare doesn't cover dental services like routine cleanings, fillings, tooth extractions (removals), or items like dentures and implants." } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans may offer dental cover as a supplemental benefit; that is a plan-by-plan matter and is not recorded here." }, "medicaidCoverage": { "kind": "unknown", "reason": "requires_manual_verification", "note": "Medicaid is administered by each state, so adult dental cover — and therefore any implant cover — varies by state rather than being set nationally. The position could not be verified from the payer's own page: medicaid.gov returned HTTP 403 to every automated request made on 2026-07-22, so no quotation from the CMS Medicaid dental page has been recorded. This needs checking by hand against https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/dental-care and the reader's own state Medicaid agency before anything is published about it." }, "regulator": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "There is no single national regulator or national register of dentists. Licensure requirements are set by the state board of dentistry — also called the board of dental examiners or licensing board — in each state and territory, and the state boards are responsible for licensing individuals, setting standards of practice and conduct, and taking disciplinary action. A patient checks a clinician's licence with the board for the state where the practice is, and the American Dental Association publishes contact details for every state and territory board.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "us-ada-state-dental-boards", "quote": "licensing of qualified individuals, establishment of standards of practice and conduct, taking disciplinary action against those who engage in misconduct" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Directory: https://www.ada.org/resources/careers/licensure/state-dental-boards. Most state boards run their own online licence lookup; there is no equivalent of the UK's single GDC register." }, "costLookupTool": { "kind": "verified_fact", "value": "FAIR Health, a nonprofit that manages a national database of privately billed health insurance claims, runs a free consumer cost estimator that covers dental procedures. The dental estimator asks for a CDT code or keyword and the location where care will be received, and includes implant and bridge procedures under its prosthetic services category. Estimates are derived from insurance claim records rather than from any official tariff.", "sources": [ { "sourceId": "us-fair-health-about", "quote": "FAIR Health is an independent nonprofit that collects data for and manages the nation's largest database of privately billed health insurance claims" }, { "sourceId": "us-fair-health-consumer-dental" } ], "confidence": "high", "verifiedAt": "2026-07-22", "note": "Two limits worth stating to a reader. The estimate is built from claims, so a procedure that is often paid for out of pocket rather than billed to insurance is represented more thinly than a routine covered one. And the output is a location-specific estimate generated on demand behind a terms-of-use acceptance, so it is a tool to use rather than a figure to quote." }, "whatDrivesCost": { "kind": "editorial_interpretation", "text": "In a market with no reference price, the variables are the quotation's own contents and the patient's insurance position. Scope first: American practices commonly quote the surgical placement, the abutment and the crown as three separate CDT lines, and a headline \"implant price\" may be D6010 alone — roughly half the cost of the finished tooth. Bone work is the second variable and is separately coded; a lateral-window sinus augmentation is a substantial procedure in its own right. Geography is the third, and it is not marginal in a country this large: fees vary between and within states, which is exactly what a ZIP-code lookup is for. Fourth is who is doing the work and where — an oral and maxillofacial surgeon or periodontist placing the implant and a general dentist restoring it means two practices, two fee schedules and two claims. Fifth is the insurance position: dental plans typically carry a low annual maximum, so even a plan that covers implants may cover only part of one year's treatment, and whether the practice is in-network determines whether a negotiated rate applies at all. The practical move is to get every line as a CDT code with a fee, send that list to the insurer for a pre-treatment estimate before anything is booked, and ask specifically what is not on the list.", "author": "editorial", "lastReviewed": "2026-07-22" } }, "certifications": [], "sources": [ { "id": "us-ada-dental-care-market", "title": "The Dental Care Market — Health Policy Institute (includes \"Where can I get the ADA's fee schedule?\")", "publisher": "American Dental Association, Health Policy Institute", "url": "https://www.ada.org/resources/research/health-policy-institute/dental-care-market", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "National dental association research page and fee-schedule policy statement", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "us-ny-wcb-dental-fee-schedule-page", "title": "Dental Fee Schedule — current and superseded editions", "publisher": "New York State Workers' Compensation Board", "url": "https://www.wcb.ny.gov/content/main/hcpp/dentalFeeSchedule.jsp", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "State regulator publication index", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "us-ada-cdt-code", "title": "The Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (CDT Code)", "publisher": "American Dental Association", "url": "https://www.ada.org/publications/cdt", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "National procedure code set maintained by a dental association", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "us-cms-hipaa-code-sets", "title": "Code Sets Overview — Administrative Simplification", "publisher": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services", "url": "https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/burden-reduction/administrative-simplification/code-sets", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal statement of HIPAA-adopted code sets", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "us-ny-wcb-dental-fee-schedule-2025", "title": "Official New York Workers' Compensation Dental Fee Schedule, Second Edition", "publisher": "New York State Workers' Compensation Board", "url": "https://www.wcb.ny.gov/content/main/regulations/adopted/dental-fee-2025-10/dental-fee-schedule.pdf", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "State statutory maximum fee schedule (12 NYCRR Part 444)", "publishedDate": "2025-11-13", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "us-medicare-dental-coverage", "title": "Dental services — what Medicare covers", "publisher": "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Medicare.gov)", "url": "https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/dental-services", "tier": "regulator", "sourceType": "Federal payer coverage statement", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "us-ada-state-dental-boards", "title": "State dental boards — contact directory for every state and territory", "publisher": "American Dental Association", "url": "https://www.ada.org/resources/careers/licensure/state-dental-boards", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "Directory of state licensing authorities", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "us-fair-health-about", "title": "About Us — FAIR Health", "publisher": "FAIR Health, Inc.", "url": "https://www.fairhealth.org/about-us", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "Nonprofit data organisation description of its claims database", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" }, { "id": "us-fair-health-consumer-dental", "title": "FAIR Health Consumer — Dental Cost Estimator", "publisher": "FAIR Health, Inc.", "url": "https://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/dental", "tier": "professional_body", "sourceType": "Free consumer cost-lookup tool built on a national claims database", "accessedDate": "2026-07-22", "verificationStatus": "reachable" } ] } ] }