Flipper Tooth Cost in 2026

A flipper — the same thing as a single tooth denture or interim partial denture — is a thin acrylic plate carrying one or a few replacement teeth. It exists for one moment: the months between losing a visible tooth and completing the permanent replacement. It looks fine, costs little, and chews almost nothing.

Flipper cost benchmarks (2026)

One published clinic fee schedule prices the increment explicitly: $300 for the first tooth, $25 per additional tooth ($325 for two, $350 for three). Most offices do not publish that curve, but it matches the national pattern — extra teeth on the same plate cost little; what you pay for is the plate, the impression and the lab run. Same-day fabrication is possible at offices with in-house labs.

Flipper vs every alternative, priced

The pages that rank for this query compare the flipper only to implants. Here is the full menu for one missing front tooth, with published ranges:

Per month of wear, the flipper runs roughly $15-$70/month over its 6-24 month life — cheap as a bridge to somewhere, expensive as a destination: five years of serial flippers and refits can cost implant-level money while the bone underneath keeps shrinking.

Temp tooth kits and "tooth covers": the honest use case

Amazon ranks on this search for a reason — a big slice of flipper demand is really "make the gap invisible for cheap, now". Moldable temp tooth kits ($15-$48) and cosmetic tooth covers (including the "pageant flipper" used in performance settings) do that for a photo, an interview or an event. The honest boundaries: they are not fitted dental acrylic, you cannot chew with them, and worn daily they trap plaque against the neighboring teeth. Use them as makeup, not as dentistry — and put the $300 professional flipper on the calendar if the gap will be there for months.

The timeline nobody prices: after the flipper

The flipper is act one of a sequence, and the sequence is the real budget:

1. Extraction ($250-$380 average by state in our data) — often with socket preservation ($300-$800) if an implant is planned.
2. Flipper ($300-$1,164) — worn through healing, typically 4-12 months if grafting is involved.
3. The permanent fix: single implant ($3,000-$6,000), a bridge, or a definitive partial ($1,300-$4,200/arch).

Budgeted as a journey, a front-tooth loss headed for an implant typically totals $3,900-$8,300 — and the $400 flipper is the cheapest line on the bill. Knowing that up front prevents the classic trap: spending implant money on years of temporaries.

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