Updated September 28, 2026
The short answer
What dentures cost you depends on your state mostly through its Medicaid program: 39 of 51 programs cover adult dentures, 5 cover only narrow cases and 7 cover none. Pick your state below for its rule, in the program’s own words.
Published retail prices are national: the chains list the same tiers everywhere, so a denture’s sticker price does not swing much by state. What swings is who pays. Each state sets its own Medicaid adult dental benefit, its replacement intervals and its prior-authorization rules, and each runs its own fee schedule — Colorado’s, for instance, pays a dentist $834 to $836 for a complete denture and $575 to $824 for a partial depending on material. This page is the chooser; every verdict below links to the full rule with its source.
Pick your state
| State | Adult dentures under Medicaid | Program |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | No | Alabama Medicaid |
| Alaska | Yes | Alaska Medicaid (DenaliCare) |
| Arizona | No | AHCCCS (Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System) |
| Arkansas | Yes | Arkansas Medicaid |
| California | Yes | Medi-Cal (Medi-Cal Dental Program / Smile California) |
| Colorado | Yes | Health First Colorado (Colorado's Medicaid program) |
| Connecticut | Yes | HUSKY Health (Connecticut Dental Health Partnership) |
| Delaware | Limited | Delaware Medical Assistance Program (DMAP) adult dental benefit |
| District of Columbia | Yes | DC Medicaid (Department of Health Care Finance) |
| Florida | Yes | Florida Medicaid (Statewide Medicaid Managed Care) |
| Georgia | Yes | Georgia Medicaid (Department of Community Health) |
| Hawaii | Yes | Med-QUEST (Hawaii Medicaid) |
| Idaho | Yes | Idaho Medicaid / Idaho Smiles (MCNA Dental) |
| Illinois | Yes | Illinois Medicaid dental program (HFS) |
| Indiana | Yes | Indiana Health Coverage Programs (IHCP) |
| Iowa | Yes | Iowa Medicaid / Dental Wellness Plan |
| Kansas | Yes | KanCare (Kansas Medicaid, KMAP) |
| Kentucky | Yes | Kentucky Medicaid (CHFS Department for Medicaid Services) |
| Louisiana | Yes | Louisiana Medicaid Adult Denture Services (DentaQuest / MCNA Dental) |
| Maine | Yes | MaineCare (Section 25 Dental Services) |
| Maryland | No | Maryland Medicaid / Maryland Healthy Smiles Dental Program |
| Massachusetts | Yes | MassHealth |
| Michigan | Yes | Michigan Medicaid (MDHHS) |
| Minnesota | Yes | Medical Assistance (Minnesota Health Care Programs) |
| Mississippi | No | Mississippi Medicaid (Division of Medicaid) |
| Missouri | Limited | MO HealthNet |
| Montana | Yes | Montana Medicaid (DPHHS) |
| Nebraska | Yes | Nebraska Medicaid (DHHS) |
| Nevada | Yes | Nevada Medicaid (DHCFP) |
| New Hampshire | Limited | NH Medicaid (New Hampshire Smiles adult dental benefit) |
| New Jersey | Yes | NJ FamilyCare / New Jersey Medicaid |
| New Mexico | No | New Mexico Medicaid (Turquoise Care) |
| New York | Yes | New York State Medicaid |
| North Carolina | Yes | NC Medicaid |
| North Dakota | Yes | North Dakota Medicaid |
| Ohio | Yes | Ohio Medicaid |
| Oklahoma | Yes | SoonerCare (Oklahoma Medicaid) |
| Oregon | Yes | Oregon Health Plan (OHP) |
| Pennsylvania | Yes | Medical Assistance (Pennsylvania Medicaid) |
| Rhode Island | Yes | Rhode Island Medicaid |
| South Carolina | Limited | Healthy Connections (South Carolina Medicaid) |
| South Dakota | Yes | South Dakota Medicaid |
| Tennessee | Yes | TennCare (Tennessee Medicaid) |
| Texas | No | Texas Medicaid |
| Utah | Yes | Utah Medicaid |
| Vermont | Limited | Vermont Medicaid (Green Mountain Care / DVHA) |
| Virginia | Yes | Virginia Medicaid (Cardinal Care Smiles) |
| Washington | Yes | Washington Apple Health (Medicaid), Health Care Authority |
| West Virginia | Yes | West Virginia Medicaid (Bureau for Medical Services) |
| Wisconsin | Yes | Wisconsin Medicaid / BadgerCare Plus (ForwardHealth) |
| Wyoming | No | Wyoming Medicaid |
What else changes by state
Three things beyond the Medicaid verdict: the fee schedule (what the program pays a dentist — a floor that anchors what low-cost clinics charge, never a retail price), the replacement interval (five, eight or ten years between dentures, set per program), and the routes that exist everywhere — dental schools, sliding-fee health centers and donated care — whose local names differ by state. The state table holds every program’s wording; the save-money page walks the routes that work in all 51.
More cost and coverage answers
Medicaid, state by state
Every program’s rule in its own words, each row sourced and dated.
How much dentures cost
Every published chain price, per arch, with dates and sources.
Medicare and dentures
What Original Medicare pays, and what Advantage plans actually add.
Save money on dentures
The six real routes: entry tiers, dental schools, sliding-fee clinics, coverage and donated care.
Sources and how this page works
The verdicts on this page are the ones on the state-by-state table, where each state’s row quotes its Medicaid program’s own current pages or manuals and links the source we read on September 28, 2026; the Colorado fee figures come from the Health First Colorado fee schedule effective July 1, 2026, cited on the partials page and the cost page. We keep dated snapshots of every source, programs change their rules without notice, and no one can pay to change a verdict. Spot something stale? Tell us.
