A fictional practice. Not a dentist. Not dental advice.
Fernhill Dental · Old Town Tustin
The price, before the chair.
A general dentist’s office that prints its fee schedule, does your insurance arithmetic in front of you, and tells you what can wait until morning.
(714) 555-0164FRONT DESK · A 555 NUMBER — THIS IS A DEMO
$384
Your first visit, all three codes of it — long exam, full X-rays, cleaning. The number nobody publishes.
A different kind of dental page
Every dentist has a fee schedule. Almost none will show it to you.
The sheet exists — it’s open on the front desk’s screen while you’re told “it depends”. This page prints it: the exact fee for every procedure we’d offer, against the same CDT codes every office and every insurer in America bills by.
Below it, the part your benefits page won’t do for you: pick what your mouth needs and what your plan looks like, and watch the arithmetic — deductible, percentages, the annual ceiling — land on an actual number before anyone reclines you.
Licence #00000 — check it with the Dental Board. Search it. That link is the Department of Consumer Affairs' own licence search, and it will tell you there is no Fernhill Dental and no licence behind this page. On a real practice's site this links to the dentist's live licence record — status, issue date, any public discipline. It is the one check worth doing before anyone touches your teeth, and almost no practice invites it.
A GENERAL DENTIST'S OFFICE. The implants and clear aligners on this page are general-dentist work, not a specialist's. California no longer forces that disclosure — the rule requiring it was repealed in 2011 — so almost nobody prints it. We think you should have it before you sit down.
Care & prices
Six things a general dentist does, each with its number.
California requires advertised health-care prices to be exact — no “as low as”, no “and up”. Ours simply are.
Checkups & cleanings
$268 the visit
Exam, four X-rays, cleaning — the three lines your plan usually covers in full.
Fillings
$232 a surface
White, on the day we find it if there's room, and we'll show you the X-ray first.
Root canals & crowns
$1,480 + $1,340
The bad-molar year. The estimator below shows exactly what it does to a $1,500 plan.
Extractions
$246 – $402
Simple or surgical — you'll know which, and the price of each, before anyone reclines you.
ImplantsGENERAL DENTIST
$4,247 start to finish
Post, abutment and crown, itemised. General-dentist work, and we say so.
Whitening
$395, both arches
Cosmetic, one visit, and no plan covers it — anyone who implies otherwise is selling.
Your plan’s math
What this actually costs you, worked in front of you.
Dental insurance is three numbers — a deductible, a set of percentages, and a yearly ceiling. They’re on your benefits page. Here’s what they do to a real bill.
What your mouth needs
What your plan looks like
The commonest shape in employer plans: 100/80/50, $50 deductible, $1,500 a year and not a dollar more.
Root canal, molarD3330
plan $715you $765
Richer plans file root canals under basic at 80%. Worth checking before you approve the work.
Crown, ceramicD2740
plan $670you $670
- Deductible waived on preventive care, as most PPOs do.
- Whitening is cosmetic — every plan pays $0, whatever tier you pick.
- Fees are Fernhill's own fictional schedule; the mechanics are how PPOs actually work.
- Waiting periods, downgrades and the missing-tooth clause are real and plan-specific — the rows they touch say so.
Printed, not quoted
The fee schedule.
Every row carries its CDT code — the billing language every office and insurer shares. The fees are Fernhill’s own, invented with the practice; the codes are real. Take this table into any real waiting room and ask them to fill in their column.
Exam, returning patientD0120
$68
The look-around at each checkup.
preventive
Exam, new patientD0150
$112
The long first look — every tooth, gums, bite, and the soft tissue screening.
preventive
Bitewing X-rays (four)D0274
$74
The routine set, usually once a year.
preventive
Full-mouth X-raysD0210
$146
The complete series a new patient starts with; most plans allow one every 3–5 years.
preventive
Cleaning, adultD1110
$126
A regular cleaning on healthy gums — not the deep one below.
preventive
Deep cleaning, per quadrantD4341
$286
Scaling and root planing below the gumline, a quarter of the mouth at a time. Gum disease care, not a stronger cleaning. Some plans file this under major at 50%. Your benefits page decides, not us.
basic
White filling, one surfaceD2391
$232
A tooth-coloured filling on a back tooth. Many plans quietly pay the metal-filling rate and leave you the difference. It's called a downgrade, and it's in the fine print.
basic
Crown, ceramicD2740
$1,340
The full cap, when a filling can no longer hold the tooth together.
major
Root canal, molarD3330
$1,480
Cleaning out the nerve of a back tooth. The tooth usually needs the crown above afterwards. Richer plans file root canals under basic at 80%. Worth checking before you approve the work.
major
Extraction, simpleD7140
$246
Removing a tooth that's fully through the gum.
basic
Extraction, surgicalD7210
$402
Removing a tooth that has to come out in pieces, or hasn't fully erupted.
major
Implant placementD6010
$2,150
The titanium root. General-dentist work here, and the page says so where it's sold. Many plans exclude implants entirely, or refuse teeth lost before the plan began — the 'missing tooth clause'. Read yours before you plan on help.
major
Implant crownD6058
$1,695
The tooth that goes on the implant.
major
Whitening, in officeD9972
$395
One visit, both arches. Cosmetic, so insurance pays nothing — no plan covers it, and any site that implies otherwise is lying. Never covered. The estimator prices it at 0% no matter what plan you pick.
major
Emergency visit — exam and X-rayD0140 + D0220
$123
Seen today, told exactly what's wrong and what it costs to fix. The visit price is the whole price. Billed as a limited exam plus one X-ray; most plans treat both as diagnostic.
preventive
The testimonial slot
What’s not on this page, and why that’s the point.
No reviews, no stars, no patient quotes
A practice that doesn't exist has no patients, and writing one would be a fake endorsement — the thing the FTC now fines per violation. On a real practice's build this slot holds a live feed of its actual Google reviews, good and middling alike, because 93% of patients read them and a curated wall reads as curated.
No before-and-after smiles
Every after photo on a dental template is a stranger's teeth. A real practice can show its own work with signed consent; a demo cannot, so the space went to the fee table — which is the photo nobody was going to show you anyway.
No named dentist, no white-coat portrait
A name beside DDS is a claim to a licence, and holding one out without holding one is an offence in California. This is where your name, your photograph and your real licence number go — linked to the Dental Board, so patients can check you before they trust you.
No 'gentle', no 'state-of-the-art', no 'we treat you like family'
Every dental site in the county says all three, which is how the words stopped meaning anything. What's here instead is checkable: prices, hours, the arithmetic of your plan, and what we'd tell you at 2am.
No working contact form, no chat, no tracking pixels
A dental intake form collects health information; sending yours to a fictional practice would be worse than pointless, so the form is inert and says so. On a real build the form is minimal, encrypted, and the site carries no advertising pixels at all — regulators have spent two years fining health sites for exactly those.
In pain at 2am
What our voicemail should say, printed instead.
A solo practice has no 24/7 line, whatever the templates claim. It has judgement, and judgement can be published: four situations that cannot wait for morning, three that only feel like they can’t.
Go now — tonight
Minutes matter. Hold it by the crown, never the root, and put it in milk or tuck it in your cheek. Re-implantation works best inside the hour — go to an emergency dentist or ER now.
That is an infection spreading, not a toothache. Emergency room, tonight, not a dentist's voicemail.
Bite on gauze or a damp tea bag for 30 minutes. If it hasn't slowed, ER.
ER for the jaw. A displaced tooth needs a dentist the same day.
It can wait for 8am — call then
Uncomfortable, not urgent. Keep the crown, avoid chewing on that side, call at 8am.
Take it seriously — it's usually decay reaching the nerve — but it can wait for a same-day slot. Ibuprofen beats a hot compress; heat can worsen an abscess.
Cosmetic until it isn't. Book this week; smooth edges with sugar-free gum in the meantime.
Seen-today visit — exam and X-ray, $123flat, and you leave knowing what’s wrong and what fixing it costs. That price is on the schedule above like everything else.
Working hours
A week you can plan around.
In pain right now? The triage list below is what our front desk would read you.
Book a visit
Three fields. None of them your history.
This form is deliberately disconnected. A fictional practice must not collect a real person’s health information — so it asks for none, and sends nothing. On a real build it reaches the front desk and nothing else: no portal, no account, no tracking.
