All-on-4 and Full-Arch Implants in Gilbert, Arizona

The honest version of this decision, from the practice where Glisten started

If you are reading this, you have probably already been quoted a number somewhere else. Maybe it was thirty-five thousand dollars. Maybe more. And you left that appointment with a price but not a real understanding of what the price bought, or whether you even needed the most expensive thing on the menu.

Glisten Dental Studio in Gilbert is where this practice began. Dr. Revan Dawood, DMD, founded it here on Pecos Road, and the way she talks to a patient about a full-arch case is the reason a lot of people drive past closer offices to sit in this chair. She does not start with the price. She starts with whether you are even a candidate, and whether something less drastic is the honest answer for your mouth.

This page is written the way she talks. Plain. No pressure. The parts where her own words say it better than we could, we left her words alone.

Call 480-331-4955 to book a consultation, or use the contact page.

First: are you actually a candidate? Here is exactly how that gets decided

A lot of people have been told somewhere that they “don’t have enough bone” and walked away thinking full-arch implants were off the table for them. Sometimes that is true. Often it is not, and they just were not evaluated properly.

Here is the order Dr. Dawood works through, in her words:

“First I study their bone by taking a cone beam radiograph. I want to make sure we have enough bone to work with. Then gum health — any active infection has to be treated first. I do a complete medical history review and see if there are any contraindications for implants considering the patient’s current health and medications. Smoking matters because it significantly affects healing. Medical history concerns include uncontrolled diabetes, blood thinners, certain medications — all factor in. Age is almost never a disqualifier as long as the jaw is fully developed. Most people are candidates, they just don’t know it yet.”

That last line is the one to sit with. “Most people are candidates, they just don’t know it yet.” Age, on its own, almost never takes you out of the running. A scan, a look at your gum health, and an honest read of your medical history and medications is what decides it — not a glance and a guess.

All-on-4 versus dentures: she will tell you when the cheaper thing is the right thing

This is the part most offices skip, because the more expensive answer is better for the office. It is not always better for you. Here is how Dr. Dawood frames it, unedited:

“I tell them honestly, if you want something that feels like your own teeth, that you don’t take in and out, that lets you eat whatever you want, then All-on-X is worth the investment. If budget is a hard wall and traditional dentures are what’s accessible right now, I respect that and I’ll make sure they’re done well. I’d rather they make the right choice for their life. But I always plan for a transition just in case the patient changes their mind later down the road.”

Read that again. “If budget is a hard wall… I respect that and I’ll make sure they’re done well.” She is not going to talk you into the bigger procedure to protect a sale. And she builds her treatment plan so that if you start with a denture today and decide in two years you want fixed teeth, you have not painted yourself into a corner. That forward planning is part of why people who came in “just for a denture” end up trusting her with everything else.

What it actually costs here, and why we will not hand you a number and walk away

Glisten Dental Studio’s price for All-on-4 is $15,999–$20,000 per arch. Per arch means one jaw — your upper or your lower. We publish it per arch on purpose, because that is the unit the decision is actually made in, and bundling it into one big both-jaws headline number is how people get confused and oversold.

Now compare what that range actually replaces. Individual implants done one tooth at a time to rebuild a full arch commonly run $30,000–$50,000+ per arch. An implant-supported overdenture is roughly $8,000–$15,000. Traditional removable dentures are $1,200–$2,800. Those are the real alternatives, with their real numbers, side by side — not to push you toward the most expensive one, but so the $15,999–$20,000 per-arch figure sits in honest context instead of floating alone.

Dental insurance rarely covers a full arch outright; annual maximums on most PPO plans land around $1,500 to $2,500, which offsets a portion, not the whole thing. Financing is available, and on most plans that works out to roughly $400–$900 per arch monthly depending on terms. None of that is the part that matters most, though. This is:

“I always walk through it line by line with them. I never just hand someone a number and walk away. We pull up their insurance benefits together, I show them exactly what’s covered, what’s not, and what their out-of-pocket looks like before we ever schedule anything. No surprises. If the treatment cost feels out of reach, we figure out a way together. We have financing options also.”

You get a written estimate before treatment. If something changes during the case, we stop and talk to you before we keep going. That is the standard this practice was built on, in the chair where it started.

Before you sign a $35,000 quote anywhere — the questions Dr. Dawood wants you to ask

If you have a high quote in hand from another office, do not just react to the number. React to what is and is not inside it. These are her questions, the ones she says will tell you whether the quote is honest:

“Ask what’s included. Is the bone graft in that number? The extractions? The temporaries? Does this include the final zirconia prosthesis? What implant brand are they using? How much bone is the dentist going to shave down to get a nice prosthesis? Ask how many cases they’ve done. Ask to see actual patient photos, not stock images. And ask what the warranty looks like if something fails.”

Walk through that list out loud at any consultation, here or anywhere. A quote that quietly leaves out the bone graft, the extractions, or the final prosthesis is not really cheaper — it is just an incomplete number that grows later. The question about how much bone gets shaved down is one almost nobody thinks to ask, and it is one of the most important: aggressive reduction to make a prosthesis fit easily is a shortcut you live with permanently. Bring these to your Gilbert consultation and ask us the same things. We would rather you ask.

The actual timeline at Glisten — one surgery, not two

Most full-arch timelines online are brochure ranges. Here is the real sequence this practice runs, in Dr. Dawood’s words:

“Consult and imaging day one. At Glisten Dental, we specialize in implant placement on the same day as tooth extraction. This means the patient only goes through one surgery, not two. Once the implant is placed, the bone has to heal around the implant and fuse to the implant. That takes about 3 months for bone to remodel and heal. Then after 3 months we see the patient back to take measurements for a crown. We order the crown and 2 weeks later the final crown is placed. Start to finish, straightforward cases run about 4 months. We give every patient their specific timeline at the consult, not a range off a brochure.”

The detail that matters: placing implants the same day the failing teeth come out means one surgery instead of two. About three months for the bone to heal and fuse. Measurements after that, final restoration roughly two weeks later. Straightforward cases, start to finish, about four months. Your case may differ, which is exactly why you get your own timeline at the consult instead of a number copied off a website.

“Is it going to hurt?” — the real answer

This is the question that stops people from even calling. So here it is on the page. Recovery is not what the anticipation makes it. Her explanation:

“That it’s going to hurt terribly [is the biggest misconception]. Most patients are shocked by how manageable recovery actually is. The anticipation is almost always worse than the reality. Bone does not actually have nerves in it to feel pain. The little pain that is associated with implants is actually the gums healing, just like if someone took a bite out of a hot piece of pizza and burned the roof of their mouth. After a few days that sensation goes away. Same with implants.”

The pizza-burn comparison is hers because it is accurate. Bone itself does not feel pain. What you feel afterward is gum tissue healing, like the roof of your mouth after hot pizza, and it settles within a few days. On top of that, the practice rule applies to surgical visits the same as every other visit: nothing starts until you are completely numb and comfortable, and the numbness is tested first so it is not a guess. If you feel something, we stop.

Why people choose the Gilbert practice for this

Gilbert is the original Glisten location and has the longest-running patient base of the three. Dr. Revan Dawood, DMD, founded the practice here on Pecos Road; Dr. Joshua Baer works across all three offices. Full-arch work is not farmed out to a separate surgical center and a separate restorative office — diagnosis, surgery, and the final restoration are handled by the same small group of dentists who do these cases regularly. We are in-network with most major dental plans, and there is a free in-house specialist who helps patients sort through Medicare and Medicare Advantage dental options.

The reason most people give for switching to Glisten is short: over-diagnosis somewhere else, a price nobody explained, treatment built around the practice instead of the patient, or simply not feeling like anyone cared. A full-arch decision is exactly the kind of decision where those things cost you the most. This is the practice built as the answer to that list, in the chair it started in.

Book a Gilbert consultation: call 480-331-4955 or use the contact page. 4365 E Pecos Rd, Ste 127, Gilbert, AZ 85295.