An implant placed in Manhattan and an implant placed in Oklahoma City use the same titanium, the same ceramics and the same protocol. The invoice is not the same. Dental Arts Center publishes the Oklahoma City number, and patients fly in from across the country to pay it.
On a single implant from New York, after flights and hotel
Published implant fee, abutment and final crown included
States and DC modelled in the price simulator
8913 NE 23rd St, Oklahoma City/25 minutes from Will Rogers World Airport (OKC)
A single implant, abutment and crown runs about $4,620 across the country. In the highest-fee metros it lands closer to $6,283. At Dental Arts Center the published fee is $2,385, for the same three components and the same guided workflow.
Net of travel
Home-state figures are modelled estimates, not quotes. The Oklahoma City figure is the clinic’s published fee. Travel is costed as two round trips, hotel nights and ground transport for one patient.
Pick a treatment, pick where you live, and set how many teeth are involved. Flights, hotel nights and ground transport are subtracted before the saving is shown, because a comparison that ignores travel is not a comparison.
Your state figure is a modelled estimate, not a quote. The Oklahoma City figure is the published clinic fee. How these numbers are built.
Estimated net saving, travel included
1 tooth of dental implant treatment in California is estimated at $6,005. The same treatment at Dental Arts Center, with flights, hotel and ground transport counted, comes to $3,665.
Modelled private-pay fee around Los Angeles
Clinic fee $2,385 plus $1,280 of travel
Every square is a state, coloured by how much travelling here saves on that treatment once the trip is paid for. On a single implant that is 50 of 51. Tap any square for the full breakdown.
Swipe the map sideways to reach the coasts.
Widest gap
Reference metro New York City
$2,620
42% less, travel included
Based on 1 unit of dental implant, with flights, hotel and ground transport already subtracted. Modelled estimates, not quotes.
Every fee below is the published Dental Arts Center price, and every comparison is against the modelled estimate for the same case in the state you are reading from.
Dental Arts Center
$2,940
full comprehensive case, both arches
Clear aligner therapy
A full course of clear aligners planned, printed and supervised in one clinic, with two in-person visits instead of a monthly appointment for a year.
Dental Arts Center
$2,385
per tooth, implant + abutment + crown
Implant dentistry
Implant, abutment and final crown quoted as one fee, staged across two trips so the healing period happens at home rather than in a hotel.
Dental Arts Center
$885
per tooth, layered feldspathic or pressed ceramic
Aesthetic dentistry
Layered ceramic veneers designed from a digital mock-up you approve in the chair, fitted across a single four-night stay.
The implant systems, the ceramics and the scanners are the same ones used by the practices charging twice as much. Five structural things make the invoice different, and none of them is the dentistry.
Clinical space on the north-east side of Oklahoma City costs a fraction of what the same square footage costs in Manhattan, Boston or West Los Angeles. That difference sits in the overhead line of every single fee a practice quotes, and it is the largest component of the gap.
Ceramics are designed and finished locally rather than shipped out of state or overseas. Shorter turnaround means fewer temporary stages, fewer appointments, and no courier cost buried in the crown fee.
Dr. Lorents plans, places and restores. There is no referral fee between a surgeon and a restorative dentist, and no second consultation charged to hand the case over.
Out-of-state cases are scheduled in blocks so chair time is used fully. A predictable schedule costs less to run than a diary full of gaps, and that saving is reflected in the quote rather than kept.
Fees are published and paid directly. Practices that bill insurers carry administrative cost and inflate list prices to survive network discounts. A flat published fee does not need that padding.
Clinical Lead, Dental Arts Center Oklahoma City
Dr. Lorents leads clinical protocol development, treatment planning review and provider training at Dental Arts Center. His day-to-day work is split between complex aligner cases and implant restoration, and he personally reviews every treatment plan written for a patient flying in from another state.
Out-of-state care only works when the sequence is fixed in advance. This is the order it happens in, from the first photograph to the last remote review. Will Rogers World Airport (OKC) is twenty-five minutes from the chair.
Before you book anything
A remote assessment comes back within two working days with a treatment range and the number of nights the case needs. Nothing is charged at this stage and no flight should be booked yet.
Written quote
The quote lists what is included and what is not. It holds for 90 days. If the clinical picture changes at the chair, you are told before treatment starts, not invoiced afterwards.
Scheduling
Appointments are blocked so the whole case fits the stay. Will Rogers World Airport is 25 minutes from the clinic and hotels near the airport run well under coastal rates.
In Oklahoma City
Every travel patient gets a final review appointment before flying home, with photographs, radiographs and a written summary for their local dentist.
After you fly home
Scheduled video reviews continue through healing. Your full digital record is released on request so any local dentist can act on it without repeating diagnostics.
A patient flying in from another state is agreeing to a plan before they have met anyone. What follows is what that plan guarantees, and the figures behind it.
Trips and nights are what a typical case needs. Yours is confirmed in writing after the assessment, before anything is booked.
The quote names what is included and what is not, and it holds for 90 days. Flights are booked after the number is agreed, never before.
If the clinical picture changes at the chair, you are told before treatment starts. Nothing is added to the bill afterwards without your agreement.
Every travel patient is seen once more before departure, with photographs, radiographs and a written summary addressed to their own dentist.
The full digital record, scans and radiographs included, in formats US practices open. Your local dentist can act on it without repeating diagnostics.
Scheduled video reviews continue after you are home, with Dr. Edward Lorents reachable for a remote look at anything that concerns you.
Work covered by the treatment guarantee is re-treated here at no fee, and urgent care at home is arranged with your local dentist and reimbursed where it falls inside that guarantee. The written quote states the cover that applies to your case. Start with the free assessment
Overhead. Clinical rent, staffing and lab costs in Oklahoma City run well below the coastal metros, and Dental Arts Center publishes flat fees rather than list prices built to survive insurance network discounts. The materials, the implant systems and the ceramics are the same ones used in the practices charging twice as much.
A written range, the number of nights the case needs and the number of trips, back within two working days. No card, no deposit, no obligation to travel.
Modelled gap on this case
$2,340 (39% less)
Takes about four minutes. You can upload photographs, scans and the quote you already hold on the way through.
