Affordable Dental Implants

Affordable does not mean cheap. It means transparent pricing, comprehensive financing, no surprise fees, and the same surgical and material standards a high-end implant-focused practice would use. We do not cut on the implant, the surgical guide, the sedation, or the final crown to make a sticker price work.

Single implants at 5D Smiles are $3,500 all-inclusive — consult, 3D CBCT scan, implant, abutment, and final zirconia crown. All-on-6 starts at $20,000 per arch (we use six implants, not four — better bite force and longevity). Bone graft is included if your case needs one. The national averages are roughly 30–50% higher than these numbers.

Vertical integration.We own our CT scanner, our surgical suite, and our zirconia mill in-house. No outside lab fees. No imaging-center markups. Roughly 30% of what corporate franchises charge covers their multi-vendor middle layer; we don't have that layer.

One doctor. Dr. Qiu performs the surgery, designs the crown, and follows the patient post-op. A typical corporate practice has a surgeon, a prosthodontist, and a hygienist working on the same case — three sets of fees. One doctor, one set of fees.

Volume in surgical procedures. Over 1,000 implants placed. Higher volume drives down per-case overhead and chair time, which we pass through directly to pricing.

We offer 0% APR financing up to $60,000 over 60 months for qualified patients through banking partners. On a single implant at $3,500, that's $58/month. On an All-on-6 at $20,000, that's $400/month. On both arches at $40,000, that's $767/month.

For patients who do not qualify for the 0% terms, longer-term financing (84–120 months) at 9.99–14.99% APR is usually available, which brings the monthly payment down further. We discuss specific terms at the consult.

Most patients leave money on the table by not getting their dental and medical benefits properly billed on implant cases. We have an in-house insurance coordinator who handles pre-authorization, predetermines benefits, and bills medical when applicable.

PPO dental typically covers 30–50% of the implant restoration up to your annual max. Medical can sometimes cover surgical fees when tooth loss is documented as due to trauma, cancer treatment, or congenital absence. Combined, this often saves patients $2,000–$5,000 per arch.

The implant itself. Brand-name implants (Nobel, Straumann, BioHorizons) have 30+ years of published longevity data. Generic implants have neither the data nor the consistent parts supply chain — replacing a crown on a generic 10 years later can be impossible.

The CT scan and surgical guide. Free-hand placement increases failure risk and nerve injury risk. Both are catastrophic to recover from. Spending $350 on a CT is not where to save money.

The final crown material.Acrylic bridges (used in some "$14k full-arch" pitches) stain, wear, and break within 5 years. Zirconia is far more wear-resistant and routinely lasts decades. Re-doing a bridge at year 5 is more expensive than starting in zirconia.

Mexico, Costa Rica, and Eastern Europe market implants at half U.S. pricing. The math looks good until you add travel ($1,500–$3,000), 2 weeks off work, and the cost of follow-up complications back home — which most U.S. dentists won't handle on a foreign implant case.

Implant complications can arise at month 2, year 5, or year 15. Each one requires either flying back or paying U.S. specialty-level rates to a doctor who has no records on your case. For straightforward singles on healthy patients the math sometimes works; for complex cases it almost never does.