Dental implant cost in Georgia

Georgia in numbers

Costs below carry no Georgia adjustment; only income varies. Percentages, rates and ranks are ours. Sourcing.

Georgia splits the two: below-median supply of implant surgeons, but a below-median price relative to income, so a thin specialist market is at least not compounded by a heavy relative cost. It is also lopsided between the two supply ranks, 33rd for implant surgeons against 41st for dentists overall, so the surgical specialists are easier to find here than general dentists. Income here carries a ±$633 margin of error, so the rank is not exact.

Georgia changed its adult benefit more than any other state in this set: until 1 July 2024 adult Medicaid dental was emergency-level, and from that date adults 21 and over receive diagnostic, preventive, restorative, periodontal, prosthodontic, orthodontic, endodontic, emergency and oral surgery services. Adult orthodontics is genuinely covered here, which almost no state does, but only for members who present one of the listed auto qualifiers such as a malocclusion needing combined orthodontic and orthognathic surgery; requests to improve appearance or correct crowded teeth are refused outright. Implants are the one thing the expansion did not reach. On the workforce side Georgia is the clearest case in this set of thin supply masked by a large absolute number: 221 oral surgeons is the sixth-largest count in the country and still only 33rd per head, and at 47.8 dentists per 100,000 the state ranks 41st on general dentists too.

Georgia Medicaid and implants

Georgia's Part II Policies and Procedures for Dental Services states that effective 1 July 2024, individuals age 21 and older receive medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, restorative, periodontal, prosthodontic, orthodontic, endodontic, emergency and oral surgery services. That replaced an emergency-only adult benefit. The fee schedule in the same manual carries no implant placement code of any kind; the only implant-adjacent code is D7270, re-implantation of an accidentally avulsed or displaced tooth, at $276.34. Fixed prosthodontics is limited to two codes, D6240 pontic at $556.07 and D6750 retainer crown at $581.17, and both are available only for members whose medical or mental condition precludes the use of removable prosthodontics, documented by a physician. All dentures and partial dentures require prior approval. Georgia is one of the few states that publishes per-code dollar amounts: a complete maxillary denture, D5110, pays $673.78, and the removable complete and partial denture codes D5110, D5120, D5130, D5140, D5211 and D5212 are indicated for the definitive replacement of teeth lost to disease, trauma or injury. Two administrative details are particular to Georgia and easy to get wrong. Adult coverage begins on the first day following the end of the month in which the member turned 21, not on the birthday itself. And pregnant members receive the benefits of their applicable non-pregnant age category plus a set of additional services, running from the date of service following verification of pregnancy through twelve months post-partum, with written verification of pregnancy required before the service is rendered. For the edentulous patient the manual asks for an individualised radiographic examination and recommends a panoramic radiograph with the prior-approval request.

Georgia is not among the eleven states whose adult dental benefit met the "extensive" definition in the 2024 national Rubric, and even that tier excludes implants. More on how the Medicaid framework works and what it leaves out. Sources: Georgia DCH, Part II Policies and Procedures for Dental Services (2025 edition, via the ADA's Medicaid fee schedule library); Georgia DCH, Dental Services manual on the state's own MMIS portal (refused automated requests). Not a benefits determination.

Lower-cost and licence checks in Georgia

Georgia has one dental school with a patient clinic:

• Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta

It publishes no implant price. What to ask for instead.

Licences here are published by the Georgia Board of Dentistry. No U.S. state restricts implant placement to a speciality, so with 221 oral surgeons in Georgia it is worth asking who is placing yours.

Georgia dental implant cost FAQ