Updated November 2026
Methodology
There is no national price list for dog dental care, and most private practices do not publish their fees. This page says what our figures are built from, so you can judge how far to rely on them.
1. Published clinic fees
The price tables on the home page and the tooth extraction page copy fees that US clinics publish on their own websites. We record each figure with the page it came from and the date we read it, last on 15 November 2026. We quote what the clinic says the price covers, because one clinic's cleaning fee includes x-rays and bloodwork and another's does not.
The clinics, all linked from the tables:
- Emancipet, Austin, TX (nonprofit clinic)
- Lowcountry Pet Wellness, North Charleston, SC (low-cost clinic)
- PETSinc, West Columbia, SC (nonprofit clinic)
- Humane Society of Manatee County, Bradenton, FL (humane society clinic)
- Humane Colorado, Denver, CO (humane society clinic)
- Humane Society of Huron Valley, Ann Arbor, MI (humane society clinic)
- AniCira Veterinary Center, Manassas, VA (nonprofit clinic)
- Joybound People & Pets, Walnut Creek, CA (nonprofit clinic)
- East Bay SPCA, Oakland, CA (nonprofit clinic)
- Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Fort Collins, CO (specialist teaching hospital)
The limit to know about: nine of the ten are nonprofit or low-cost clinics and one is a specialist teaching hospital. They are the clinics that publish. A private general practice near you may charge more or less, which is why every page tells you to ask for an itemised written estimate.
2. Calculators
The bill calculator adds up one clinic's published line items (cleaning, any required exam, and the per-tooth fees) for the number of teeth you choose, or the figures you type in from your own vet's quote. It shows every line it adds. It does not apply regional multipliers or national averages.
3. Worked examples
Worked examples on the extraction page are sums of a single clinic's published fees, with the fees used shown beside each total.
4. Clinical figures
Disease prevalence, extraction counts and staging definitions come from named sources given in the text where they appear: the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Veterinary Dental College, and peer-reviewed studies cited by author, journal and year.
5. Pages still being moved to published fees
Some older pages on this site (cost by dog size, how often, how to save, the anesthesia-free comparison, at-home care and insurance) still carry planning ranges that were not built from published fees. We are replacing them with sourced figures page by page. Until then, treat a range on those pages as a rough guide and rely on the published fee tables.
Who we are
The site is published by Digital Signet Limited and is not affiliated with any clinic listed here, the AVMA or the AVDC. More about the site.