What does denture cost?
The cost of dentures ranges from a few hundred to about a thousand euros and is made up of the following factors:
- Dental fee
- Manufacturing cost of the denture
- Material cost of the denture
They are recorded in a so-called treatment and cost plan by the dentist prior to treatment. The treatment and cost plan must be submitted to the statutory health insurance company so that it can approve the plan and calculate the subsidies for the dental prosthesis costs. This approval is only valid for half a year.
What the statutory health insurance does not pay for can be covered, for example, with private supplementary dental insurance.
In the case of private patients, the costs of dentures are covered depending on the selected tariff.
Subsidies for dentures
Treatment and cost plan (HKP)
The HKP contains the following:
- I: current findings of the dentition
- II: Findings that are important for the calculation of fixed allowances
- III: Cost planning – estimate by the treating dentist
- IV: Subsidy determination – subsidies approved by the health insurance company
- V: Invoice amounts – actual costs incurred by the treatment
The second part of the HKP provides information about alternatives that are not part of the standard treatment and must be paid for by the patient.
Dentures without co-payment
If the fixed allowance from the health insurance fund exceeds the dental prosthesis costs ultimately incurred – for example, because the material costs are lower than estimated – the dental prosthesis is without co-payment. This means that the statutory health insurance covers all costs.
Dentures abroad
The statutory health insurance generally covers dental costs for treatment within the European Union. You must initially pay the bill of a foreign dentist yourself. However, you should note that the statutory health insurance will only reimburse you for treatment that is reimbursable in Germany and only up to the amount that would have been covered in Germany. Follow-up treatments due to complications are also at your own expense, so denture costs abroad can turn out to be more expensive than in Germany, despite cheaper offers.
