What non-clinical things should affect my dental implant fees? Plenty, and if you only price the clinical work you are leaving money and sanity on the table. Roughly half of what sets your fee has nothing to do with bone or teeth. How badly the patient wants the esthetics, because high esthetic demand means more steps, more headaches, more remakes. Whether it is a re-treatment case, which carries its own minefield. The patient's expectation of long-term outcome. And then the behavioral side, which I watch for at the exam. Some people are simply harder to treat and harder to be around, [...]