Editorial Standards

This page covers three things: where the numbers on this site come from, what "not medical advice" actually means in practice, and what happens after you flag something as wrong.

Where our figures come from

Every price range on this site comes from one of two places. Most come straight from the calculator's own model, built to reflect typical US pricing patterns for each material, prep level, and location combination, and we present it as our estimate rather than dressing it up as a third-party study. When we cite something specific, an insurer's coverage structure, a Medicaid rule, a discount-plan percentage, we name it directly in the sentence next to the figure rather than burying it in a footnote. We don't accept pricing information from dentists, labs, or insurers in exchange for coverage, and no provider pays to be named or ranked more favorably.

What "not medical advice" means here

Naomi Foster, who writes our guides, is a healthcare cost writer, not a dentist or any other licensed clinician. Nothing published here diagnoses a dental problem or tells you whether you personally need a crown; that call belongs to a dentist who has actually looked at the tooth. Where a guide describes symptoms, procedure steps, or recovery, it's summarizing widely accepted clinical information and says so, and where we're not confident a claim is well established, we say that too rather than presenting a guess as settled fact.

Corrections

Found a number, a date, or a claim that's wrong? Tell us through the contact page. Naomi checks the correction against the original source before anything changes. If it holds up, we update the page and its "Updated" date, and for anything that meaningfully shifts a cost figure or a clinical claim, we note what changed at the bottom of that guide rather than quietly editing it away.

What we won't do