Dental Implants in Bohol: Total Cost, CBCT Planning and What Is Included

The quick answer: an implant is more than the metal fixture

When a clinic quotes you a figure for "an implant", the useful question is what that figure covers. On our price list an implant is three rows, not one: the fixture, the surgery that places it, and the crown that sits on top and does the chewing.

The fixture is a small titanium post placed into the jawbone where the tooth root used to be. On its own it replaces nothing you can see or eat with. It is ₱25,000, and the professional fee for placing it is a further ₱25,000 — which is where the ₱50,000 figure comes from.

The crown is the visible tooth. A zirconia crown is ₱20,000 on our crowns list, the same figure whether it tops an implant or a prepared natural tooth. Add the three together and one restored tooth starts at about ₱70,000.

"Starts at" is doing real work in that sentence. It is the figure for a straightforward single-tooth case where nothing else is needed, and what else a case needs is the subject of the next two sections.

• ₱50,000 = fixture plus placement. It is not a restored tooth.
• ₱70,000 = fixture, placement and the zirconia crown, for a straightforward single-tooth case.
• Neither figure is a quotation. The case-specific written breakdown comes after the examination.

The cost, item by item

These are rows on our published price list, in the order they are charged, and they are the same at both branches.

The fixture and its placement are billed as two lines rather than one because they are two things — a component, and the surgery that puts it where the plan says it should go. Publishing them separately is what makes it visible that neither of them is the crown.

There is no abutment figure on this page, because there is none on our price list. Ask the clinic what the parts between the fixture and the crown cost for your case and have the answer written into your breakdown; we are not going to tell you something is included when the price list does not say so.

• Implant fixture — ₱25,000
• Implant placement, professional fee — ₱25,000
• Zirconia crown fitted on the implant — ₱20,000
• Approximate starting total for one restored tooth — ₱70,000

Costs that may be separate

None of the following is charged on every case. Each is charged where the case needs it, and which ones apply to you is established at the examination rather than assumed in advance.

This is also the honest reason we will not quote an implant from a photograph sent over Messenger. A photograph shows the gap. It does not show the bone under it, where the nerve canal runs, the condition of the teeth on either side, or anything at all about your medical history.

• Consultation — ₱300
• CBCT scan — ₱10,000 where it is clinically indicated, including the prints and a USB copy
• Extraction, where the tooth being replaced is still in place — ₱800 – ₱1,500 for a simple extraction, ₱10,000 – ₱15,000 for an impacted third molar
• A temporary restoration, where one is appropriate while the site heals
• Bone grafting, or another additional procedure, where the site requires it. Our price list carries a bone graft row, and it is priced after the examination and the treatment plan rather than before them — whether it applies to you at all is settled by the assessment, not ahead of it.

Implant, bridge or removable denture

An implant is one way to replace a missing tooth. It is not automatically the right one, and a clinic presenting it as the only option is not offering you a choice.

A bridge replaces the tooth by joining a false tooth to the teeth on either side, which have to be prepared — reduced — to carry it. It does not wait on bone healing, so it is normally quicker. It costs according to how many units it needs, which is why there is no single bridge figure on our price list, and the teeth either side are permanently altered.

A removable denture rests on the gum and comes out to be cleaned. It is the least expensive of the three and the least like a natural tooth to wear: a complete acrylic denture is ₱6,000 per arch, and a partial acrylic denture starts at ₱900 per tooth.

An implant leaves the neighbouring teeth alone and is fixed in place, and it is the option that takes longest and costs most. Which of the three suits you depends on the bone at the site, the condition of the teeth around it, your general health, what you want to spend and how long you are willing to wait — a conversation for a consultation, not a decision to make from a web page.

What the examination, your medical history and imaging establish

Suitability is a clinical finding rather than a preference. Before anyone can tell you an implant is appropriate, the dentist has to examine the site and the teeth either side of it, take your medical history including the medicines you take, and image the area.

Medical history carries more weight here than in most dental work, because an implant depends on bone healing around it. Smoking and vaping interfere with healing and raise the risk of implant failure, and so can some medicines and some general health conditions. That is a conversation worth having before treatment rather than after.

• An examination of the gap and the teeth either side of it
• Your medical history and a current list of the medicines you take
• Imaging appropriate to the case — a periapical or panoramic X-ray, or a CBCT scan
• Tell the clinic before any imaging if you are pregnant or think you may be

Why a CBCT scan may be clinically indicated

A periapical or panoramic X-ray is a flat image: it shows the tooth and the bone as a shadow, from one direction. For a great deal of dentistry that is enough.

An implant asks questions a flat image cannot answer — how much bone is actually there, how wide it is as well as how tall, and where the nerve canal and the sinus sit relative to the position being considered. A cone-beam CT scan is a three-dimensional image that answers them.

It also uses more radiation than the flat images, which is why it is requested where the extra detail changes the plan rather than as a matter of routine. Not every implant patient needs one. If a scan is recommended to you, it is reasonable to ask what it will change about your treatment, and a clinic should be able to tell you.

At the Tubigon branch the scan is taken on site, by Somosot Dental Diagnostics, a separate facility at the same address. It is ₱10,000, including the prints and a USB copy that is yours to keep.

What digitally guided implant surgery means

Guided surgery means the implant position is planned on a computer before the day of surgery, from the 3D scan and a digital scan of your teeth, and that plan is then transferred into the mouth with a surgical guide — a custom template that seats on the teeth and directs the drill along the planned path.

At the Bohol branch the guide is designed and printed in the clinic's own laboratory on site rather than sent away. That bears on how many visits a case takes and how long it waits between them; it is not a clinical claim.

What guided planning is for is carrying a position decided with the scan in front of you into a mouth where the bone cannot be seen. It supports careful positioning.

What guided planning does not do

It is not a guarantee. Digital planning supports accurate positioning; it does not make an outcome certain, and the final position and the surgical approach may still have to be adjusted from what is found during the procedure.

It is also not required for every case, and not every implant placed here is guided. Whether it is appropriate is part of the plan rather than a standing feature of the treatment. If you have seen the phrase attached to a clinic's name, ask whether your own case would be guided, and why.

Nothing on this page is a promise about accuracy, healing, comfort or success. Implants can fail, and healing, bone quality, smoking, general health and how the implant is cared for all bear on whether one does.

The stages, from assessment to the final crown

Five stages. Most of the elapsed time is not appointments — it is the healing between the placement and the final crown.

There is no total number of months on this page, because it varies by case and a figure printed here would be read as a commitment. Healing commonly takes several months. Your dentist gives you the expected schedule for your case once there is a plan to give it for.

• Assessment — examination, medical history and the appropriate imaging. This is the stage that establishes whether an implant is suitable at all.
• Planning — the position is worked out from those records, and the case-specific written cost breakdown follows from it.
• Placement — the fixture is placed, normally under local anaesthetic. You may still feel pressure, vibration or movement, and soreness, swelling or minor bruising afterwards is normal.
• Healing — the implant is left to integrate with the bone. This commonly takes several months, and may be shorter or longer depending on the site, the bone quality, whether grafting was needed, your general health and your own healing response.
• Final crown — the implant is checked for healing and stability first, and the zirconia crown is fitted only once it passes that check.

Why some patients need bone grafting first

An implant needs bone to hold it. Where a tooth has been missing for a long time, the bone that supported it recedes, and there may not be enough left at the site — in height, in width, or both. Infection around the old tooth, gum disease, and the shape of the sinus above the upper back teeth can each reduce what is available.

Bone grafting adds material to the site so that an implant can be placed, either beforehand or at the same time, depending on how much is needed. It adds cost, and it adds healing time.

This is one of the main things the assessment and, where it is indicated, the CBCT scan are for. It is also why a figure given before imaging can move: nobody can see the bone from the outside.

Can an implant be assessed and planned in Tubigon?

Yes. Tubigon is the branch where the imaging and the laboratory are. CBCT, panoramic and cephalometric imaging is on site — provided by Somosot Dental Diagnostics, a separate facility at the same address — and the in-house dental laboratory designs and prints surgical guides, models and provisional restorations there.

In practice that means the scan, the review of the scan with your dentist, and the planning can happen in one visit rather than across an imaging-centre appointment and a second trip. If you are travelling in from elsewhere in Bohol, that is the part worth knowing before you plan the journey.

The Cebu branch's published facilities do not include on-site imaging or a laboratory. If you would rather be seen in Cebu, ask that branch what your case would need and where.

Chief Dentist Dr. Jared Somosot's published scope of practice covers CBCT-based planning, digitally designed surgical guides, guided placement and the crown that restores it. No dentist at either branch holds a recognised specialty qualification — what they hold is continuing education, listed course by course on the Meet the Dentists pages.

What to bring to the assessment

Bring the records themselves, not a description of them. The most common avoidable delay is a scan that exists somewhere and cannot be read on the day.

• Any previous X-rays or scans, and the original digital files — the USB or disc a clinic gave you, rather than a photograph of the printout
• A current list of every medicine you take, including anything bought without a prescription
• Your relevant medical history, including anything affecting healing and anything you are being treated for now
• Previous dental records or a clearance letter, if another clinic has been treating the tooth
• Tell us before any imaging if you are pregnant or think you may be