What is the average price of Oral Surgery?

If you are considering oral surgery, or if your dentist heavily recommends it, you might be looking over your bank account in order to determine if you can actually afford the procedure or not. Pinpointing the exact cost of oral surgery has many different variables involved, so knowing exactly what it is going to be can prove rather difficult. Each dentist has their own costs for specific procedures, and while having one tooth removed might cost a set amount, removing a second tooth might cost less. While all of these different variations do play an impact on the cost of oral surgery, all of the numbers given here are provided by Dentists.org based on the average, nationwide cost of different oral surgery procedures.

Porcelain Crowns

Porcelain crowns fall on the very fringe of being considered actual oral surgery. Now it does not involve any sort of teeth extraction or alteration to the gums (usually), but the dentist does need to reduce the size of a current tooth in order to fit the crown over the tooth. These crows are used to fit over dying teeth, damaged teeth or even discolored teeth. On average, the cost of porcelain crowns is going to vary between $900 and $1,500 each.

Dentures

The exact cost of dentures can vary widely as there are many different kind of dentures. Some dentures are permanent replacements and are installed directly onto the gums through posts inserted through the jaw bone. Other sets of dentures are removable and only are used for possibly the back rows of teeth, the very front teeth or just the top or bottom row of teeth. With so many different variations, this can be difficult to peg down, but if you are considering dentures, you can usually expect to pay somewhere between $1,500 to $2,200, although there is usually going to be more of a fluctuation in the cost of dentures than almost any other form of oral surgery.

Root Canal

This is a rather common form of oral surgery. Should a tooth die in your mouth, often times due to a sudden impact to the tooth which kills the nerve endings, you need to remove the dead tissue from the tooth. However, the tooth itself might still be in tact, in which case you probably do not want to have it removed in favor of a replacement toot. With the root canal, a small hole is drilled into the rear of the tooth where the dentist extracts the pulp from tooth and inserts a white filling. A root canal is going to cost around $600 to $900 per tooth. Friendly dentists are more preferred by patients.

Tooth Extraction

Whether you have a dying tooth that is starting to rot in your mouth or there is damage to a tooth that just cannot be saved, the tooth needs to be extracted. Now, the removal of a tooth usually comes with another form of oral surgery. You might need an implant after the tooth extraction. When this is required, you usually need to combine the cost of an implant and tooth extraction. For just the extraction, you can see the cost run anywhere from $200 to $500 on average.

The average cost of an implant is almost impossible to forecast though, as this is something you really need to speak with your dentist about. This is because there are almost more variables involved with the implant than with dentures. First, the post used for the implant might be just inserted through the gums while others might need to be inserted through the jaw bone. Often times, you are going to require multiple implants, but the multiple implants might require individual posts or just one post for several teeth.

The material used for the implant is going to vary from metal to a resin or porcelain, not to mention the amount of anesthesia you need for this sort of surgery can vary greatly, from completely anesthesia that puts you out during surgery to just locational based anesthesia that reduces the level of feel you have in the given area. With all of these variables associated with it, knowing the cost of this form of oral surgery is very difficult, so you should always talk to your dentist ahead of time in order to understand the cost and what they are going to be doing in your mouth.