All-on-4 Dental Implants: Who Owns the Name, How It Works & What It Costs

how four implants hold a full arch

Two implants go in vertically at the front of the jaw, two are tilted about 45° at the back — the tilt anchors them in dense front-jaw bone and sidesteps the sinus (upper) and nerve (lower). A full bridge of teeth screws onto those four points. The design exists precisely for jaws with bone loss at the back, which is why most All-on-4 cases skip the bone grafts that traditional full-mouth implants would need.

who it's for

All-on-4 is for an arch that's already lost — most teeth missing, failing or beyond saving — and for denture wearers who want fixed teeth back. It is not the tool for a few gaps in an otherwise healthy arch: single implants preserve the good teeth. And if your teeth are treatable, treating them is almost always the better first move — extracting a workable arch to sell a package is the full-mouth version of the "turkey teeth" problem.

where the name comes from, and why your clinic may not use it

All-on-4 is not a generic dental term — it is a registered trademark of Nobel Biocare, listed on the company's own trademark page with the generic description "treatment concept". The protocol behind it was developed by Dr. Paulo Maló, a Portuguese dentist, in the early 1990s with support from Dr. Bo Rangert of Nobel Biocare; Maló treated the first documented patient in 1998 and Nobel Biocare launched it commercially in 2004. (If you have been searching "all on 4 palo alto" and getting dental practices in California, the name you want is Paulo Maló — the search engines hear it as the town.) That history is why the same treatment reaches you under several names. A clinic may describe its full-arch work as all-on-4, all-on-6, full-arch fixed, or same-day teeth, and the wording it chooses is a fact about its marketing rather than a verdict on its dentistry. We record which implant systems each clinic names on its own pages; we do not know, and do not claim to know, which clinics hold a licence to the mark. What is worth doing with the name is simple: ask which implant system is going in your jaw and get the answer in writing, because that is the part that changes both the price and what a dentist at home can service later.

the timeline abroad

Trip one: extractions if needed, the four implants, and a fixed provisional bridge — usually acrylic — within a day or two. Then 3–6 months of healing at home while bone locks the implants in place. Trip two: the final bridge, fitted and calibrated. Clinics advertising the *final* zirconia bridge inside one week are compressing the step that protects the implants — ask what's provisional, what's final, and what happens if the provisional breaks at home.

acrylic vs zirconia — the price gap explained

The bridge material is why one All-on-4 quote is double another with the same four implants.

implant brands compared

The same implant systems compared on the implants page carry All-on-4 — and "All-on-4®" is Nobel Biocare's trademarked protocol, so budget quotes are often an all-on-four-style case on other brands. That can be fine; what matters is that the brand of the four implants is named in writing, not sold as a mystery bundle.

what it costs by country

Home-market figures are published averages, sourced below. The destination rows underneath are read from our own clinic records at the moment you load this page.

in our directory now: Mexico — 26 verified clinics from $7,998 · Turkey — 8 verified clinics from $3,810

All-on-4 and Nobel Biocare: the clinics naming Nobel, and their arch price

Every clinic here names Nobel Biocare among the implant systems on its own pages and publishes an All-on-4 price. Naming Nobel is not the same as pricing it: a clinic's headline arch can be on another system, so the table shows which system that figure is for where our record of the clinic's list ties one, and any separate Nobel line our record holds. An empty cell is a gap in our record, not a statement about the clinic. Each figure is the clinic's own, in the currency it publishes; the scope word is our record of what it covers.

what the same arch costs on a different implant system

These are the clinics that publish more than one price for the same arch, split by the implant system going in. It is the brand premium in the clinic's own numbers, on the date we read its price list — not our estimate of what a brand is worth. Where a clinic prices in its own currency we lead with that figure.

verified clinics for this procedure

Lowest published price first. Every listing is checked against the clinic's own sources — what verified means.

related

• Dental implants explained — the single-implant version of this page
• Implant brands compared — Straumann, Nobel Biocare, Neodent and the rest, by tier
• Mexico or Turkey for dental work — full-arch prices side by side, with the sample behind each
• Dental work in Mexico — Los Algodones full-arch pricing
• Cost calculator — estimate arches in 10 seconds

common questions

sources

• Nobel Biocare — trademark list (All-on-4® is a registered mark)
• Nobel Biocare — 25 years of the All-on-4® treatment concept (Dr. Paulo Maló)
• Real Dental Costs — US full-arch averages (ADA / FAIR Health)
• Dental Solutions Los Algodones — published price list
• Turkey Dental Clinic — 2026 implant cost breakdown

Educational overview, not medical advice — treatment decisions need an examination. Ranges are published figures for comparison, not quotes.