Most dental chains will not tell you a price until you are in the chair. Aspen Dental is the exception. It publishes averages and full ranges for implants, dentures, extractions and exams on its own site, footnoted to 2026 internal data, which makes it the easiest large provider in the country to price-shop before you book.
The catch is in the fine print on every one of those footnotes: Aspen Dental-branded practices are independently owned and operated by licensed dentists, and each price links out to a location-specific lookup. The national average is a benchmark, not a quote. This guide covers what Aspen publishes as of September 4, 2026, how its $49 savings plan changes each number, what the discount offers are actually worth, and how the whole thing compares to ClearChoice and the same-day chains.
What Do Aspen Dental Implants Cost Without Insurance?
Every figure below is published by Aspen Dental and footnoted to 2026 internal data. Rows marked “member” are the prices Aspen lists for patients enrolled in the Aspen Dental Savings Plan, which costs $49 a year and is not insurance.
| Aspen Dental service | Low | Average | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed full arch implants, per arch | $19,315 | $19,979 | $30,878 |
| Implant denture (snap-in), per arch | $7,628 | $8,289 | $13,297 |
| Implant denture, per arch, member | $6,102 | $7,534 | $10,638 |
| Single tooth implant | $3,158 | $4,259 | $6,533 |
| Single tooth implant, member | $2,859 | $3,571 | $4,597 |
| Implant bridge, member | $5,884 | $7,663 | $9,920 |
| Full denture, Signature Elite, member | $1,655 | $1,841 | $2,391 |
| Full denture, Classic, member | $871 | $1,071 | $1,330 |
| Full denture, Basic, member | $499 | $499 | $499 |
| Simple tooth extraction, per tooth | $104 | $179 | $279 |
| Surgical tooth extraction, per tooth | $184 | $389 | $488 |
| New patient exam and X-rays, no insurance | $29 | $29 | $29 |
The headline number for anyone facing a full mouth is $19,979 per arch. Aspen states it twice on its full-mouth page with a range of $19,315 to $30,878, which means both jaws lands somewhere around $38,600 to $61,800 before extractions.
Notice how narrow the low end of that full-arch range is. The gap between $19,315 and the $19,979 average is under $700, while the top of the range is $11,000 higher. That shape tells you the cheap end is a floor set by the treatment itself and the expensive end is driven by materials, implant count and complexity, not by finding a bargain office.
What Drives the Price
Whether you join the savings plan. This is the biggest single lever Aspen controls, and it is unusual in that the discount is published rather than negotiated. On implants the member price runs about 14% to 16% below the standard published average: $3,571 versus $4,259 on a single tooth, $7,534 versus $8,289 on an implant denture. The plan costs $49 a year and $29 for each additional family member.
Which office you walk into. Aspen Dental-branded practices are independently owned and operated by licensed dentists, with Aspen Dental Management, Inc. providing business support, and every published price footnote points to a location-specific pricing tool. The full-arch spread of $19,315 to $30,878 is largely geography and office-level pricing. If there are two Aspen offices within driving distance, price both. Cross-check whatever you are quoted against our fair price checker.
Fixed arch versus snap-in. The same implants can carry a permanently fixed bridge or a removable snap-in denture, and the difference is roughly $11,700 per arch at Aspen’s published averages ($19,979 against $8,289). The fixed arch is the premium product. The snap-in is the value option and the reason most people who thought full-mouth implants were out of reach can still get off adhesive. Our dentures cost guide covers the non-implant tiers below that.
Extractions and prep work. Aspen’s implant footnotes say plainly that additional charges may apply for other required dentistry, including extractions. Aspen publishes simple extractions at an average of $179 per tooth ($104 to $279) and surgical extractions at $389 ($184 to $488). Clearing a failing arch of a dozen teeth can therefore add roughly $2,100 to $4,700 on top of the arch price. Bone grafting is priced separately again; see our bone graft cost guide and tooth extraction guide.
Materials and implant count. Aspen notes that final pricing depends on case complexity and materials, and zirconia is the most expensive prosthetic material in the category. Ask each office to quote your arch in both acrylic-on-titanium and zirconia so you can see the actual dollar gap instead of a single bundled figure.
What Aspen’s Offers Are Actually Worth
Aspen runs several stacked-looking promotions, and the footnotes matter more than the headlines. As read on its offers page on September 4, 2026:
- $29 new patient exam and X-rays, for new patients without dental insurance, 21 and older, at select offices, described as a minimum $80 value. Expires 12/31/26.
- 20% off select dental services, and separately 20% off dental implants and 20% off premium dentures. All three are taken off usual and customary fees, exclude specialist services, and cannot be combined with other discounts or discount programs. Insured patients get either the 20% or their plan pricing, whichever is greater.
- Dentures starting at $499 per arch for a Basic single-arch denture with a Savings Plan membership, with extra charges for relines and extractions.
- $300 off Motto clear aligners, which expires 9/30/26.
The “cannot be combined” language is the important part. You cannot layer the 20% implant discount on top of Savings Plan member pricing, so ask the office to price your plan both ways and take the larger discount. On a $19,979 arch a straight 20% is about $4,000, which beats the roughly 15% member rate, but on a $4,259 single implant the two land close enough that the $49 fee decides it.
Aspen also publishes a Denture Money-Back Guarantee covering the cost of the permanent denture, with the refund request due within 90 days of the final denture insert or hard reline, and the denture returned within 90 days of the request. On the implant side it publishes a 25-year warranty on dental implants and a 7-year warranty on implant dentures. Get both in writing, because warranty terms are the sort of thing that varies by independently owned office.
Aspen Dental vs. ClearChoice and the Same-Day Chains
Only two large chains publish numbers you can hold them to, and they do not agree.
ClearChoice publishes $14,000 to $36,000 per arch for fixed full arch, $8,000 to $13,500 for an implant denture, $10,500 to $13,500 for an implant bridge and $5,000 to $7,500 for a single tooth implant, all from 2025 internal data. Its low end is $5,300 below Aspen’s and its high end is $5,100 above. ClearChoice also publishes two double-arch discounts that Aspen does not match: $5,000 off with proof of dental insurance and $3,000 off for trading in existing dentures. Details are in our ClearChoice pricing guide.
CareCredit’s national study, written April 24, 2026 and based on 2024 research by ASQ360 Market Research for Synchrony, puts the All-on-4 national average at $15,176 with a range of $11,640 to $27,500. Aspen’s $19,979 sits about $4,800 above that national average, which is the honest cost of buying from a national brand with a warranty and a marketing budget.
Nuvia Dental Implant Center, the “permanent teeth in 24 hours” chain, publishes no per-arch dollar figure at all, only monthly financing tiers. Our Nuvia cost guide documents what it does and does not disclose. Our All-on-4 guide and full mouth implants guide put all of these side by side.
Cash Price vs. Insurance
Dental insurance barely moves an implant bill. Typical plans cap annual benefits at roughly $1,000 to $1,500, which against a $19,979 arch is a rounding error, and many exclude implants outright as elective. Aspen’s own offer terms acknowledge this backwards: insured patients receive either the 20% discount or their plan pricing, whichever is greater, which is an admission that the cash discount often beats the coverage.
Aspen also states it does not accept Medicaid, so if you are covered that way this is not your provider. Our guide to going to the dentist without insurance covers where Medicaid dental and sliding-scale options do apply.
The practical read: treat this as a cash purchase. Aspen says 99% of patients who apply for third-party financing are approved, which is a warning as much as a selling point. Approval is not affordability, and deferred-interest dental cards commonly carry purchase APRs above 30% once the promotional window closes.
How to Pay Less
Buy the $49 savings plan before anything else. On Aspen’s own published prices it saves roughly $690 on a single implant and $755 on an implant denture, plus free exams and X-rays for the year. Then ask whether the 20% offer beats it on your specific plan, since the two cannot be combined.
Price two Aspen offices, not one. Independently owned pricing is the whole reason the published full-arch range spans $11,500. Two consultations is a cheap way to find out where in that range you fall.
Get an itemized treatment plan with ADA codes. Ask for implants, abutments, prosthesis material, sedation, imaging, extractions and grafting as separate lines. An itemized plan is the only version you can compare across providers or push back on, and the same tactics work here as on any provider bill; see our guide to negotiating medical bills.
Do the prep work somewhere cheaper. Extractions and grafting are billed on top of the arch price, and they are exactly the services dental schools and community clinics handle at a steep discount. Our guide to free and sliding-scale clinics explains how to find them. Arriving at the implant consult with extractions already done shrinks the quote.
Start with a snap-in, upgrade later if you want. At $8,289 per arch against $19,979, an implant-supported denture on the same posts gets you off adhesive for well under half the money. Aspen publishes a 7-year warranty on those.
Know what price posting rules do and do not cover. Dental offices are not bound by hospital price-transparency rules, which is why Aspen publishing anything at all is notable and why most competitors publish nothing. Our price transparency guide explains where posted-price requirements actually apply so you do not waste time hunting for a chargemaster that does not exist.
The Bottom Line
Aspen Dental is the most price-legible large dental chain in the country: $4,259 for a single implant, $8,289 for a snap-in implant denture per arch, and $19,979 for a fixed full arch per arch, all published and footnoted to 2026 internal data. A $49 savings plan takes 14% to 16% off, and a 20% offer can beat that on bigger cases.
Its full-arch average sits about $4,800 above CareCredit’s national average and inside ClearChoice’s wider band, so Aspen is not the cheapest path to a full arch. It is the one where you can find out the price before you walk in, and where the published range tells you honestly that your local independently owned office might charge $19,315 or $30,878 for the same treatment. Ask which, in writing, before you sign anything.