Who writes this, and who does not

No dentist writes here, and none has reviewed it

That sentence is the most important one on the site, so it appears at the top of every page as well as here. Second Set Guide is written by the editorial team, none of whom holds a dental qualification. Nobody with one has read these pages, checked them, or lent a name to them.

There is no reviewer's name in the page footers, no set of letters after anybody's name, and no reviewedBy field in the structured data — because putting one there when no review happened would be a lie told to a machine. If this site ever does commission a dental review, it will be a named, real, paid professional and the arrangement will be described on this page in full.

What that means for you: this is a place to get the published figures and the official wording in one piece before an appointment. It is not a place to find out what is wrong with your mouth, and it cannot be.

Where the numbers come from

There is no published national average price for a denture in the United States that we could find for free on 24 September 2026 — we went looking, and this site prints none as a result. What exists instead is fee schedules: public documents in which a payer sets out, line by line, what it pays for each procedure.

We read three, and built the site on them:

• the Pennsylvania Medical Assistance Program Dental Fee Schedule, effective 1 August 2026
• the Montana Healthcare Programs Denturist Services Fee Schedule, effective 1 July 2025
• the Washington State Department of Corrections Denture Services Fee Schedule, effective 1 January 2025

They are payer rates, not the cash price a private practice quotes, and we say that every time they appear. Alongside them sit the NHS England charge bands, Medicare.gov's own coverage wording, the ADA's patient guidance and policy statements, FDA device pages and clearance letters, and a CDC data brief. Every figure on the site names its document and the day we read it, and the whole list is kept in the site's FACTS.md.

The four rules

1. A number without a source does not go on the page. If we cannot find it published, we say it is not published rather than softening a guess into a range.
2. No invented outcomes. No before-and-after photographs, no patient stories, no success rates, no lifespan figures, no "most people find". Where a study exists we name it; where one does not, we say so.
3. The free answer gets named first. A dental school teaching clinic, a community health centre, a state programme — those pay us nothing and they go at the top of the list anyway.
4. Refusals are published, not quietly implemented. What we will not link, and why, is on the disclosure page.

What this site does not cover

Implant work. Dentures clipped onto implants, arches fixed in place with them, and everything searched for under "permanent dentures" or "all-on-4" are fixed dentistry — a different procedure, a different price scale and a different decision. We name them where a reader would otherwise be confused, and we do not price them or explain them badly in passing.

We also name no dental practice, chain or group practice, anywhere on this site. We do not rank them, we do not link them, and we take no money from them. A site that earns per referral and also tells you where to go is not a site you can read straight.

Corrections

If a figure here is wrong, or a schedule has been superseded, we want to know and we will change it and say when. The address is on the contact page. Corrections to a price are the ones we act on fastest, because a stale price on a page like this is worse than no price.