The Grillz Price Index
This is what custom grillz actually cost, per tooth, by metal and by stone type — computed live from a working manufacturer’s own published catalogue. Most of the industry quotes a “from” price and leaves it there. A “from $X” headline tells you nothing, because it is almost always a four-tooth set in the cheapest metal. Per tooth is the only figure that compares honestly across builds.
Everything below is generated from VVSANDBETTER™ catalogue prices at the moment you load this page. Read the methodology and the limitations before you quote it.
Cost per tooth, by metal and stone
Median per-tooth price, with the full observed range underneath. Reading the catalogue…
| Metal | Solid / cut gold | Moissanite | Lab diamond | Natural diamond |
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Median is the middle value of every published build in that cell, so a handful of unusual configurations cannot drag it. Cells reading “no published price” are builds that are not listed online rather than builds we do not make — natural diamond builds beyond the listed sets are quoted per commission, on 281-572-6159.
Index generated today from the published grillz configurations.
Methodology
The index is deliberately narrow, and stating its boundaries is the point.
- Source. Every figure comes from the published variant prices in the VVSANDBETTER™ custom grillz and natural diamond grillz collections. These are real prices a customer can pay today, not survey responses, not estimates, and not quotes gathered from third parties.
- Recency. The table is computed in your browser when the page loads. There is no cached copy. If the catalogue changed an hour ago, this page already reflects it.
- Per-tooth calculation. Total set price divided by total tooth count, where tooth count is read from the configuration itself — top teeth plus bottom teeth. A ten-tooth top set with no bottom is ten teeth. A set with no teeth selected is excluded.
- Metal. Grouped as solid .925 sterling silver, solid 10K, solid 14K and solid 18K gold. Sterling silver sets can be finished in rhodium white, yellow gold or rose gold plating; that plating sits over solid silver, so those builds are counted as silver.
- Stone tier. Taken from the product itself: no stones (solid or cut gold), moissanite, lab-grown diamond, or natural diamond. Every stone set is VVS clarity or better — there is no lower tier in this catalogue, so the index has no low-clarity column to report.
- Exclusions. Prices exclude automatic discounts, which are applied at checkout, and exclude shipping and tax. Figures are rounded to the nearest dollar for display.
What actually moves the number
Four inputs account for nearly all the spread you see in the table.
Gold weight
The largest line on a plain set. A plain solid tooth runs roughly 0.5–0.8 grams, with 10K at the bottom of that range and 14K at the top. Multiply by tooth count, then by the day’s gold price. Higher karat means more gold in the same volume, which is why the rows climb as you read down. Compare 10K, 14K and 18K →
Stone type
The largest line on an iced set, and the reason the columns separate so cleanly. Moissanite, lab-grown diamond and natural diamond are three different materials at three different costs, set with the same labour. Compare the three stones →
Setting labour
Hand-setting stones is the slowest operation on the bench. An invisible set or a galaxy layout takes far longer than a single row of end caps, and that bench time shows up in the per-tooth figure independently of what the stones cost.
Finish work
Diamond cut, diamond dust, open face, starburst. These are cutting and polishing operations performed on the metal itself. They add no material and no stones, but they add hours, which is why cut gold sits above plain gold in the same metal.
Limitations
This index is useful because it is specific. Those same specifics are its limits, and anyone citing it should cite them too.
- One manufacturer is not the whole market. This is the published catalogue of a single Houston workshop. It is a real, verifiable price set — which is more than most published grillz pricing offers — but it is one data source, not an industry average.
- Per-tooth flattens the tooth-count curve. There is a small price break above six teeth: the setup, the impression and the finishing work are largely fixed, so they spread across more teeth. Dividing evenly hides that. A twelve-tooth set is cheaper per tooth than a four-tooth set in the same build.
- Stone size is not held constant. Larger stones on fewer teeth can cost more per tooth than smaller stones on more teeth, even within the same stone type. The columns compare material class, not carat weight.
- Cut and setting styles are pooled. The solid gold column mixes plain sets with diamond-cut, open-face and starburst finishes. The stone columns mix end-cap, galaxy, honeycomb and invisible settings. That widens the ranges on purpose — it is what the catalogue actually contains.
- Rows are not a like-for-like ladder. Not every design is offered in every metal, so each cell is built from a different mix of products. That is why a 14K figure can sit below the 10K figure in the same column — the 10K cell may contain larger-stone designs that are not made in 14K. Compare within a cell before comparing across rows.
- It covers what is listed online. Commission work and anything quoted by phone is not in the catalogue and therefore not in the index.
- Prices move with metal markets. Gold-based figures track the metal price and will drift. That is exactly why this page recomputes rather than publishing a fixed table.
How to read a quote against this index
Take any quote you have been given, divide it by the number of teeth, and find the matching cell. If the result sits far above the range, ask what you are paying for — larger stones, a harder setting style and a higher karat are all legitimate answers. If it sits far below, ask what metal it actually is. Solid gold and solid sterling silver have a floor set by the metal itself. A price under that floor is usually plated base metal, which is a different product with a different lifespan.
Plating over solid silver is a finish. Plating over base metal is a substitute. The first is what a jeweler offers you; the second is what a costume piece is.
Cite this page
This data is free to reuse with attribution. Please credit VVSANDBETTER™ Grillz Price Index and link to vvsandbetter.com/pages/grillz-price-index. If you need a figure the table does not carry — a specific tooth count, a specific setting style, or a build not in the catalogue — call the shop on 281-572-6159 and we will give you the real number.
How these prices are produced
Every set in this catalogue is cast from the customer’s own dental impression. The impression is taken at home on a live video call with a jeweler, so the fit is supervised rather than guessed. Turnaround is 16–20 business days. Every set carries a lifetime warranty covering repairs and stone replacement, plus a refit and refund policy.
Permanent grillz are made only in person at the Houston shop and never by mail. If that is what you are pricing, the index above does not apply — call and book.
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