A complete denture costs $395 to $2,391 per arch at the national chains’ published prices, read on September 28, 2026, and roughly double that for a full upper-and-lower set, before extractions. Implant-supported options are a different bracket entirely: $7,534 per arch on average at Aspen Dental’s published figure and $8,000 to $13,500 per arch in ClearChoice’s published range. Since the ADA discontinued its national Survey of Dental Fees in 2023 there has been no national survey of what dentists charge, so the honest anchors are the prices providers publish themselves, and that is what this page collects.
- Complete denture, per arch, chain-published
- $395 to $2,391
- Implant-supported, per arch, published
- $7,534 to $13,500
- Dental school clinic (CU Anschutz, published)
- $500 to $700
Providers’ own published figures, retrieved September 28, 2026. Sources linked throughout; we keep dated snapshots of each.
The whole market on one table
| Route | Published figure, per arch | Where the number comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Chain entry tier (basic acrylic) | $395 to $499 | Affordable Dentures & Implants and Aspen Dental published prices; details on the Affordable Dentures price list |
| Chain mid tier | $871 to $1,330 (Aspen Classic average $1,071) | Aspen Dental published ranges |
| Chain premium tiers | $1,295 to $2,391 | Aspen Dental published ranges; AD&I tier tables to about $1,795 |
| Dental school student clinic | $500 to $700 | CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine published savings example |
| Medicaid reimbursement (what the program pays a dentist) | $834.38 upper, $835.88 lower | Health First Colorado fee schedule effective July 1, 2026; a floor, never a retail price |
| Snap-on (implant-retained) denture | $7,534 average to $13,500 | Aspen and ClearChoice published figures; details on snap-on denture cost |
| Fixed full-arch implants | $14,000 to $36,000 | ClearChoice 2026 published range |
What actually decides your number
Four things move a denture bill within those ranges. The product tier: basic acrylic against higher-grade teeth and digital workflows is a six-fold spread inside a single office. Extractions and preparation: each remaining tooth adds a per-tooth fee, and an immediate denture placed on extraction day needs a reline months later that no chain prices publicly. Location: the same chain publishes different figures in different cities. And coverage: whether any program or plan pays a share, which is the next section.
Who pays, and for whom
Medicaid covers adult dentures in 38 states plus DC, typically once per five to ten years with prior authorization; 5 more states cover only narrow groups or repairs, and 7 cover none. Every state’s rule, sourced, is on does Medicaid cover dentures. Original Medicare pays nothing toward dentures, while 98 percent of individual Medicare Advantage enrollees are in plans offering some dental benefit whose real denture value depends on the plan’s cap: Medicare and dentures has the rules. Without either, the published lower-cost routes are dental school clinics and sliding-fee health centers, covered with the chain prices on dentures cost without insurance.
Denture care along the Front Range
This site also keeps local guides to denture care in six Colorado cities, with the state’s license lookup and Health First Colorado’s dental benefit linked in each: Denver, Colorado Springs, Aurora, Lakewood, Fort Collins and Castle Rock.
Frequently asked questions
How much do dentures cost?
Chain-published prices run $395 to $2,391 per arch depending on tier, so a full set runs roughly $800 to $4,800 before extractions. Implant-supported dentures are published at $7,534 to $13,500 per arch. No dentist-fee survey has existed since the ADA’s ended in 2023; a lender-commissioned survey (CareCredit’s, 2026) puts full traditional dentures at a $2,022 national average, and published provider prices remain the anchor this page uses.
How much is a full set of dentures?
Dentures are priced per arch, so a full set is about double the per-arch figure: from roughly $790 at the cheapest published entry tier to about $4,800 at the chains’ premium tiers, plus per-tooth extraction fees if teeth remain.
Will insurance, Medicare or Medicaid pay?
Original Medicare: no. Medicare Advantage: often some benefit, capped by plan. Medicaid: yes for adults in 38 states plus DC, with intervals and prior authorization. Private dental plans typically class dentures as a major service at around half coverage up to a yearly cap. Our Medicaid and Medicare pages carry the sourced detail.
Why does nobody publish one national average?
The ADA discontinued its national Survey of Dental Fees in 2023, citing a change in law that eliminated safe-harbor disclosure, and no like-for-like replacement exists. The nearest thing today is a lender’s commissioned survey: CareCredit, Synchrony’s healthcare financing card, publishes averages from research ASQ360° conducted for it in 2026, including a $2,022 national average for full traditional dentures and a $2,166 Colorado average for a traditional removable denture (carecredit.com, retrieved September 28, 2026). That is market research paid for by a financing company, not provider-published pricing, so we cite it for scale and anchor this page on the figures providers put their own names on, with dates.
Sources and how this page works
Figures were read on September 28, 2026 from the providers’ and programs’ own pages: Aspen Dental, Affordable Dentures & Implants location pricing pages, ClearChoice’s cost guide, CareCredit’s denture cost survey (ASQ360° research, 2026), the Health First Colorado fee schedule, the CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine, medicare.gov, KFF, and the ADA Health Policy Institute. We keep dated snapshots of every source. This site is not a dental practice and does not sell dentures; prices are the providers’ own and change without notice, and no one can pay to change a figure, a program status or the order of anything on this page. Corrections welcome.
