How Much Does Pet Dental Cleaning Cost?
Veterinary dental cleaning under anesthesia.
- Typical price (US)
- $750
- Typical range
- $590–$1,700
- Reports
- 10
- Last report
- Aug 2026
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| Price range | Reports |
|---|---|
| $200 – $760 | 6 |
| $760 – $1,320 | 1 |
| $1,320 – $1,880 | 1 |
| $1,880 – $2,440 | 1 |
| $2,440 – $3,000 | 1 |
These numbers come from every report nationwide, so your city can sit well above or below them. The local pages carry the number that actually matters for your quote.
What the numbers say
- Prices vary widely here: the middle half of reports runs $590 to $1,700, so two honest quotes for similar work can differ by $1,110. This is a service where shopping around genuinely pays.
- 3 of the 10 reports were paid within the last 12 months.
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What drives the price of Pet Dental Cleaning
Pet dental cleaning is priced around anesthesia time and disease below the gumline. The pet's size, age, medical risk, tartar burden, and number of diseased teeth affect monitoring, drugs, nerve blocks, and extraction time. A complete veterinary dental includes general anesthesia, scaling above and below the gums, polishing, probing, and dental X-rays. Extractions can turn a routine cleaning into a longer oral-surgery procedure.
Testing and possible extractions are what separate one estimate from another. Pre-anesthetic bloodwork, IV catheter and fluids, full-mouth X-rays, anesthesia monitoring, pain medication, antibiotics, and take-home care may be included or itemized. Many clinics provide a base estimate before anesthesia, then obtain authorization up to a limit if X-rays reveal teeth that cannot be saved.
Questions to ask the provider
Are full-mouth dental X-rays, IV access, monitoring, and polishing included? How are extractions priced, and who authorizes them while my pet is anesthetized? Is pre-anesthetic bloodwork required? What pain control goes home?
Red flags
Anesthesia-free cleaning marketed as equivalent to a veterinary dental, a quote that omits dental X-rays, extracting teeth without an authorization plan, or charging for a cleaning that removes visible tartar but does not probe and clean below the gumline.