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I need a checkup and cleaning

Routine cleaning, exam and X-rays — the standard twice-a-year visit.

The three prices nobody explains to you

What a dentist actually accepts $169 The allowed amount — payment in full, in-network.

⚠️ This is a composed figure, and we're telling you. No source publishes this as a single bundled price — it's several separate procedures. This is our arithmetic summing published components, not someone else's published bundle.

Source: Colorado All-Payer Claims Database (CIVHC) — dental analysis, commercial claims (CY2024) — the only US source publishing dental allowed amounts from actual commercial claims.

COMPOSED: cleaning ($78 allowed) + exam ($41) + X-rays ($50). Insured patients paid about $1 for each of these — preventive care is the one thing dental plans genuinely cover at 100%. Go twice a year; it's free and it's the only part of the system that's working for you.

What you'd actually pay

Your plan pays —
You pay —

Remember: dental plans have no out-of-pocket maximum. Medical insurance protects you from catastrophe. Dental insurance caps what the insurer pays, not what you pay.
An estimate, not a quote. Prices are Colorado commercial claims — the only state that publishes this. Colorado's data misses roughly half of covered lives (self-insured employers don't report). Coinsurance tiers (100% preventive / 80% basic / 50% major) are an industry convention, not a measured average — nobody publishes what share of plans actually use them. Not dental or financial advice. Our methodology →