A filling in Jacksonville: the real numbers
Type "filling cost Jacksonville" and count how many dental offices show you an actual number. The standard answers are "it depends on your insurance," "schedule a free exam," and a financing widget for what is often a $200 procedure. Here are our figures instead: a white composite filling runs $175 to $295 on Restoro's founding fee schedule — $175 for one surface on a front tooth; $195, $245, or $295 for one, two, or three surfaces on a back tooth. Members pay $140 to $236. Anesthetic, bite adjustment, and polishing are inside the price, not stacked under it.
Fillings are where opaque pricing does the most damage, because the procedure is small enough that an exam-then-surprise markup can quietly double it — and corporate offices know most patients won't push back from the chair. So below is the complete list of things that legitimately move a filling's price at Restoro. Every one of them lands in your written quote before treatment starts. Nothing lands after.
The founding fee schedule — real numbers
| Procedure | Fee | With membership |
|---|---|---|
| White filling — front tooth, one surface | $175 | $140 |
| White filling — back tooth, one surface | $195 | $156 |
| White filling — back tooth, two surfaces | $245 | $196 |
| White filling — back tooth, three surfaces | $295 | $236 |
This is our founding fee schedule — real prices, published before we open. Every fee is per procedure and confirmed in writing before treatment starts. No surprise billing, ever. Member prices apply with any Restoro membership plan. Final schedule locks at opening.
Prices last checked: 2026-07-03
What moves the price up or down
- How many surfaces the cavity touches
- A "surface" is one face of the tooth, and it's the main dial: on a back tooth, one surface is $195, two surfaces $245, three surfaces $295. The dentist counts them on your X-ray and photo, in front of you, before quoting — not on the invoice afterward.
- Front tooth or back tooth
- A one-surface front-tooth filling is $175 versus $195 in the back. Back teeth carry heavier chewing loads and are harder to reach and isolate, which is the honest reason for the $20 difference — that's the entire premium, not a euphemism for hidden add-ons.
- How long the cavity waited
- The steepest cost driver isn't in the fee schedule — it's time. Decay that outgrows a filling means a $1,250 ceramic crown; decay that reaches the nerve means a root canal at $850–$1,150, usually plus that crown. A $195 filling is the cheap exit ramp, and it closes.
- How many teeth need work
- Pricing is strictly per filling — there's no per-visit, facility, or 'operatory' fee stacked on top. Adjacent teeth are usually handled under one anesthetic in one visit; fillings on opposite sides may be split into two short walk-in visits for your comfort, at zero added cost.
- Membership
- Any Restoro membership takes fillings down 20%: $140 front tooth, $156–$236 back teeth. Adult membership is $39/month — $29 locked for life for the Founding 500 — and separately covers the cleanings, exams, and X-rays that catch cavities at the small-filling stage.
The membership math
Say your checkup turns up two two-surface cavities in your molars. Paying à la carte: 2 × $245 = $490 for the fillings, plus roughly $550 for the year's cleanings, exams, X-rays, and whitening touch-ups at founding-schedule prices — about $1,040 for the year. A Founding 500 member pays $348 for the year ($29 × 12), gets all of that routine care included, and the same two fillings at member pricing cost 2 × $196 = $392 — about $740 all in. Same teeth, same dentist, roughly $300 less.
Questions, answered plainly
Why do filling quotes around Jacksonville range from about $150 to over $400?
Three real variables — surfaces, tooth position, material — and one artificial one: whether the office prices from a published schedule or from what your insurance seems likely to bear. Our range is $175–$295 because only the real variables exist here. If a quote you're holding lands far outside that, ask which surface count it assumes; that question alone is clarifying.
Do the exam and X-ray stack on top of the filling price?
They're separate line items, priced in the open like everything else: a periodic exam is $60 ($95 comprehensive for new patients), four bitewing X-rays $65 — and both are $0 for members. If a toothache brings you in, the $75 emergency exam is credited toward same-day treatment. Your written quote itemizes all of it before we begin.
Will you take my dental insurance for a filling?
We open fee-for-service with membership, so the published price is available to everyone from day one. Credentialing with Delta Dental FL, Cigna, MetLife, and Humana gets filed the day our lease signs, and in-network status arrives as that completes. Meanwhile, if you carry a PPO, bring the card — we'll tell you plainly what it's likely to reimburse and help with the paperwork.
What if the cavity turns out deeper than the X-ray suggested?
Then the drill stops and the conversation restarts — with photos of what we found and a new written quote for whatever is actually needed, whether that's a bigger filling or a referral to the crown or root-canal schedule. You approve the revised number before work resumes. Learning about a crown from your invoice is the exact failure mode this studio was built against.
Is the $150 temporary filling ever the smart buy?
Sometimes — it's a time purchase, not a repair. A temporary ($150, $120 member) seals a painful or broken tooth for weeks while you sort out travel, budget, or a treatment decision, and it's honest to call it exactly that. If you can proceed straight to the permanent composite, skipping the temporary saves you the $150 entirely.
Come in when it works for you.
We open September 2026 in the Ponte Vedra–Nocatee corridor. Founding members lock $29/month for life — cleanings, exams, X-rays, and a whitening touch-up with every visit.