11 sheets
One question, one sheet, one set of figures
What a bridge is made of and why it is priced in units. What bonding costs when it is a repair and what changes when it is cosmetic. What a payer will fund for a child’s crown. What the codes on the bill are actually counting. Each sheet names the document its numbers came from and the day we read it, and none of them tells you what your tooth needs.
A crown has come off: what it costs to have it put back, and why we will not tell you how to glue it
Re-cementing a crown is allowed between $25.00 and $59.28 on the three schedules we read. It is one of the cheapest things in restorative dentistry, and it is not a job for a kitchen table.
Read the sheet →Sheet 02 · checked Sep 24, 2026What dental bonding costs — and why no fee schedule has a line called bonding
Bonding is a technique, not a billing category. On the schedules it appears as a composite restoration priced by how many surfaces of the tooth it covers — from $50.00 to $227.00.
Read the sheet →Sheet 03 · checked Sep 24, 2026Bonding for gaps and chipped teeth: what composite can do, and what a photograph cannot tell you
Closing a gap and rebuilding a chipped corner are the two jobs people most often want bonding for. Here is how each is billed, why the same work can be funded or not, and how to read the pictures.
Read the sheet →Sheet 04 · checked Sep 24, 2026Dental bridge before and after: what the photographs leave out
The pictures show a gap and then no gap. What they cannot show is the two teeth that were cut down to make it happen, the stages in between, or what the plan is when it needs redoing.
Read the sheet →Sheet 05 · checked Sep 24, 2026Traditional, cantilever and Maryland bridges — what each asks of the teeth beside the gap
Three ways to hang a false tooth from its neighbours, and one uncomfortable pattern: the less tooth a bridge destroys, the less likely a payer is to have a line for it at all.
Read the sheet →Sheet 06 · checked Sep 24, 2026The codes on your dental bill: what the shape of the billing tells you
Every restoration on a treatment plan is a code with a fee beside it. You do not need the code book to read one — you need to know how the lines are counted, and which ones are hiding elsewhere.
Read the sheet →Sheet 07 · checked Sep 24, 2026Crowns for children: steel, resin and the white ones the schedules barely mention
A child's crown is usually a ready-made shell rather than a lab-made cover, and it is priced in the low hundreds instead of four figures. Here is every paediatric crown line on three published schedules.
Read the sheet →Sheet 08 · checked Sep 24, 2026Filling or crown? What separates them, and the size of the gap in money
On one published schedule the largest filling is $227.00 and a crown on the same tooth is $1,028.00. What decides between them is clinical — but knowing the multiple is why the question is worth asking out loud.
Read the sheet →Sheet 09 · checked Sep 24, 2026How long do crowns and bridges last? Nobody publishes a number, and here is what exists instead
The confident ranges you have read are not sourced. What is published is how often a payer will fund a replacement — a funding rule, not a prediction, and the difference matters.
Read the sheet →Sheet 10 · checked Sep 24, 2026What coverage pays for crowns and bridges — the shape of it, not a promise
Nobody can tell you what your plan pays without reading your plan. What can be shown is the structure every plan document shares, and the three levers that decide the number at the desk.
Read the sheet →Sheet 11 · checked Sep 24, 2026Temporary crowns and bridges: the stage nobody quotes for
Between the tooth being prepared and the crown being fitted there is an interval, and something has to cover the tooth through it. Only one of three published schedules prices that at all.
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