10.7910/DVN/OZEPYG Real Dental Costs Data & Research Team Real Dental Costs (realdentalcosts.com) Harvard Dataverse 2026 Medicine, Health and Life Sciences dental costs healthcare prices cost of living United States health economics Real Dental Costs Data & Research Team 2026-06-05 2909 text/tab-separated-values 1.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The US Dental Cost Index is an independent 2026 dataset of average dental prices across all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, compiled by the Real Dental Costs Data & Research Team. For each jurisdiction it reports the average single dental implant price (low/avg/high), per-tooth veneer price, full-course braces price, a composite Cost Index (100 = national average), the state cost-of-living index, and an affordability score. Key finding: dental prices track cost of living at Pearson r = 0.835; cheapest is Alabama ($3,759), priciest California ($5,733). This is market and pricing research, not clinical advice. Source & methodology: https://realdentalcosts.com/en/us-dental-cost-index/ | Citable DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20531729 | License: CC BY 4.0, attribute to Real Dental Costs (realdentalcosts.com).