How much is a prosthodontic consultation?
A comprehensive prosthodontic consultation is $250, and it is credited toward the cost of treatment if you accept a treatment plan within one month of the appointment. It is a diagnostic visit rather than a sales appointment, and booking one commits you to nothing beyond the visit itself.
What the appointment includes
The visit is spent finding out what is actually going on. That means an examination of the teeth, the gums, any existing restorations and the way the teeth meet, a review of your dental and medical history, and a conversation about what has been bothering you and what you want the result to look like. Imaging is taken where there is a specific question it can answer, rather than routinely.
Complex cases sometimes need more than one appointment before a plan can be finalized, because records such as scans, photographs and mounted models take time to gather and analyze. Where that is necessary it is explained and quoted before it happens.
What you leave with
The point of the appointment is a straight account of the problem and the realistic options for it, including the option of doing nothing for now and monitoring. Where treatment is recommended, you get the sequence and the fee for each part of it in writing, so the total is known before anything begins.
The fee, and when it is credited back
The $250 consultation fee is credited toward the cost of treatment if you accept a treatment plan within one month of the appointment. After that it stands as the fee for the diagnostic visit.
Accepting a plan means agreeing to go ahead with it, not completing the treatment. Large cases are delivered over months, and the credit is not affected by how long the work itself takes. The one month runs from the consultation, so if you want time to think or to get another opinion, that is the window to do it in.
If you decide against treatment, or decide later than a month, the fee stands as what it was: payment for an examination, a diagnosis and a written plan you keep either way.
Second opinions
Being given very different plans by different dentists is one of the most common reasons people book a prosthodontic consultation, and it is a good one. Complex restorative problems genuinely have more than one defensible answer, and the useful part of a second opinion is usually the reasoning rather than the verdict. Bringing recent radiographs, scans or a written plan from elsewhere makes the visit considerably more productive.
What it is not
It is not a free marketing appointment, and it is not treatment. Nothing irreversible happens at a consultation. It is also not an emergency visit: if a tooth is painful, a crown has come off or something has broken, call the office and say so, because that is a different appointment with a different purpose.
These are the figures treatment usually falls between, published so that a range is available before an appointment rather than after one. They are not a quote. What a specific case costs is set by what the examination and imaging find, and by the plan that follows from it. Fees reviewed August 2026.