Dental implants
Implant, abutment and final crown quoted as one fee, staged across two trips so the healing period happens at home rather than in a hotel.
- Published fee
- $2,385
- per tooth, implant + abutment + crown
- Trips
- 2
- Nights
- 3
Most of the price gap between Oklahoma City and a coastal metro shows up here. A single implant quoted at Dental Art Center covers the fixture, the abutment and the final crown. There is no separate surgical fee added after placement and no restorative fee added after healing. Planning is done from a CBCT scan, the surgical guide is printed in-house, and the final crown is shade-matched in the same building.
The fee covers
- CBCT scan and guided surgical planning
- Printed surgical guide
- Implant fixture and placement surgery
- Custom abutment
- Final shade-matched ceramic crown
- Post-operative review before you fly home
Quoted separately
- Bone graft or sinus lift, quoted separately after the scan
- Extraction of the failing tooth, if still present
- Treatment of active gum disease before surgery
- Flights, hotel and ground transport
Compared with California, where the same case is estimated at $6,005, this works out 39% lower once travel is paid.
What actually happens, in the order it happens.
2 trips, 3 nights in Oklahoma City in total. Nothing on this list is scheduled until a written fee has been agreed.
Trip one, day one
About 2 hours
CBCT scan, clinical exam, guided plan built and reviewed with you, written fee confirmed before anything is booked.
Trip one, day two
About 90 minutes per implant
Guided placement under local anaesthetic. Temporary restoration fitted where the site allows it.
Healing at home
12 to 16 weeks
Osseointegration happens at home. Your records are released to your local dentist so any urgent issue can be handled where you live.
Trip two
Two days
Impression or scan, abutment fitted, final crown seated and occlusion checked. You leave with the case finished.
Who this suits, and who it does not.
Screening happens before you book a flight, not at the chair. If the case is wrong for this treatment you are told at the assessment stage, with an alternative.
A good fit
- Single missing tooth with adequate bone volume
- Failing crown or root-fractured tooth planned for replacement
- Patients replacing an old bridge with independent implants
- Multiple missing teeth in the same quadrant
Not a fit
- Uncontrolled diabetes or active head and neck radiotherapy
- Heavy smokers unwilling to stop through the healing window
- Untreated periodontal disease
Where dental implants costs the most to have done at home.
Net of the full travel budget for 1 unit. Open a state for the complete breakdown.
Price dental implants against your own state.
Travel is subtracted before the saving is shown. Increase the unit count and watch the travel line stay flat while the saving grows.
Treatment
Dental implant
per tooth, implant + abutment + crown
Your state figure is a modelled estimate, not a quote. The Oklahoma City figure is the published clinic fee. How these numbers are built.
Estimated net saving, travel included
1 tooth of dental implant treatment in California is estimated at $6,005. The same treatment at Dental Art Center, with flights, hotel and ground transport counted, comes to $3,665.
Modelled private-pay fee around Los Angeles
Clinic fee $2,385 plus $1,280 of travel
Cheaper here does not mean lesser here.
The implant systems, the ceramics and the scanners are the same ones used by the practices charging twice as much. Five structural things make the invoice different, and none of them is the dentistry.
Commercial rent, not coastal rent
Clinical space on the north-east side of Oklahoma City costs a fraction of what the same square footage costs in Manhattan, Boston or West Los Angeles. That difference sits in the overhead line of every single fee a practice quotes, and it is the largest component of the gap.
The lab is in the same city
Ceramics are designed and finished locally rather than shipped out of state or overseas. Shorter turnaround means fewer temporary stages, fewer appointments, and no courier cost buried in the crown fee.
One clinician owns the plan
Dr. Lorents plans, places and restores. There is no referral fee between a surgeon and a restorative dentist, and no second consultation charged to hand the case over.
Trips are planned, not improvised
Out-of-state cases are scheduled in blocks so chair time is used fully. A predictable schedule costs less to run than a diary full of gaps, and that saving is reflected in the quote rather than kept.
No insurance billing department
Fees are published and paid directly. Practices that bill insurers carry administrative cost and inflate list prices to survive network discounts. A flat published fee does not need that padding.
Get dental implants quoted for your case, in writing.
A written range, the number of nights the case needs and the number of trips, back within two working days. No card, no deposit, no obligation to travel.
Modelled gap on this case
$2,340 (39% less)
- A written fee range, not a starting-from figure
- Trips and nights, so you can price the whole thing
- An honest no if travelling is not worth it
Takes about four minutes. You can upload photographs, scans and the quote you already hold on the way through.