Crown & Bridge Pricing Calculator

Adjusted Fee per Unit is set entirely by Material Type and Complexity, and Material Type is the input that moves it the most across this calculator's options -- the base lab fee spans from $92 for PFM up to a flat $450 planning estimate for full cast gold, before Complexity's up-to-1.5x multiplier is applied on top. Full cast gold is the one material whose real-world price legitimately tracks metal spot price and per-unit alloy weight, so unlike the other materials, its base fee here is a rough flat approximation rather than a stable rate. Zirconia (monolithic or layered) prices below PFM in this table because it has no precious-metal cost floor -- the same economic fact that has driven zirconia's rise as a PFM replacement in modern dentistry. Number of Units never changes Adjusted Fee per Unit itself; it only scales how many times that per-unit fee gets charged, so Subtotal rises directly with Number of Units while the per-unit rate stays fixed.

Rush Order adds a surcharge equal to 35% of Adjusted Fee per Unit times Number of Units -- that base deliberately excludes the Implant-Supported and Custom Shade Match surcharges, so on a case with either surcharge active, the Rush Surcharge works out to less than 35% of the true pre-discount case value (roughly 28% of it on a fully implant-supported case, since the surcharge is still calculated only against the pre-surcharge unit fee). Custom Shade Match adds a flat $30 per unit, and Implant-Supported adds 25% on top of the per-unit fee for implant-retained units -- all three are illustrative percentages built into this calculator, not a universal industry rate card, since real lab pricing varies by lab, region, and case complexity. The multi-unit discount (5% at 4 or more units, 10% at 6 or more) applies to the pre-rush Subtotal only, not to the Rush Surcharge itself, so a rushed multi-unit case still pays the full rush surcharge on top of the discounted base. Effective Price/Unit is Final Total divided by Number of Units, so it always agrees with the displayed Final Total.