All on 4 Dental Implant Specialists Cancun
Meet the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon Behind 25+ Years of Full-Arch Implants
Allon4DentalCenter by Dr. Omar Lugo — D.D.S., M.S., board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Cancun, Mexico. Pioneer of zygomatic implants and dental tourism since 2019, and the specialist who personally plans and performs every full-arch case.
- 4.9/5 from 1,247 reviews
- 8,000+ Americans & Canadians treated
4.9 1,247 reviews
4.9/5
from 1,247 reviews
8,000+
Americans & Canadians
25+
years
98.2%
success rate
Dr. Omar Lugo — All on 4 Dental Implant Specialist in Cancun
Dr. Omar Lugo
D.D.S., M.S. — Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon
Founder of Allon4DentalCenter, Dr. Omar Lugo has spent more than 25 years restoring full arches as a board-certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon. Member of IAOMS (International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons), ICOI (International Congress of Oral Implantologists), the Mexican Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and AOCMF. After earning his D.D.S. and M.S., he built a practice around the cases that need a surgeon's hand: All on 4, All on 5 and All on 6 protocols, certified zygomatic implants, sinus lifts, torus removal and orthognathic surgery. Every plan at Allon4DentalCenter starts the same way — a CBCT scan, a written quote, and a surgeon who performs the surgery himself.
- All on 4, All on 5 & All on 6
- Zygomatic implants (certified)
- Sinus lift & bone grafting
- Zirconium implants
- Torus removal
- Orthognathic surgery
15,000+
implants placed
Board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgery for international patients — one specialist, one plan, and a written quote before any treatment starts. Your case is reviewed personally by Dr. Lugo, not delegated.
A Specialist Practice, Not a Dental Factory
Allon4DentalCenter is a single-specialty practice in Cancun built for patients flying in from the United States and Canada. You are treated by one oral and maxillofacial surgeon from the first CBCT scan to the final restoration — Dr. Omar Lugo plans the case, performs the surgery and approves the prosthetics. The clinic runs its own on-site dental laboratory, which is why a full-arch case can move from surgery to screw-retained temporary teeth in about six days, and why the price you see is the price you pay: no third-party labs, no surprise invoices, no hand-offs.
How a case is actually planned here
The sequence, so you know what is happening and who is doing it.
1. The scan comes first
No plan is written before a CBCT exists. Bone volume, nerve position and sinus anatomy are three-dimensional problems and a panoramic X-ray flattens all three into one image.
2. Dr. Lugo reads it personally
Not a coordinator, not a treatment adviser. The surgeon who will operate is the one who decides how many implants, at what angle, and whether the case needs anything unusual.
3. The quote is written before you fly
Itemised, in USD, listing what is indicated and what is not. Locked for 12 months. If the scan shows you need less than you were told elsewhere, that is what the quote says.
4. The same surgeon operates
The plan, the surgery and the sign-off on the prosthetics are one person. Nothing is handed to a rotating associate between the consultation and the chair.
Why an implant-only centre is different
Not a general clinic that also does implants.
No cleanings, no fillings, no crowns
Full-arch implant treatment is what happens here every day. That is unusual: most implants worldwide are placed by general dentists for whom it is one procedure among twenty. Volume in a single procedure is the clearest predictor of outcome in implant surgery, and it is the reason the success rate here is 98.2% across 8,000+ patients.
The lab is in the building
An outsourced lab means a courier, a shade guess and a week of delay for every adjustment. Ours is on site with a five-axis mill: the technician walks into the surgery, looks at your bite in person, and remakes the try-in the same day. It is why a full arch can go from surgery to fixed temporary teeth in under a week.
Dr. Lugo's Surgical Specialties — Transparent USD Pricing
Official package prices for patients from the US and Canada. All-inclusive full mouth (both arches, two trips) is $19,800 — First Trip Surgical $12,800 + Second Trip Restorative $7,000. One Trip full mouth (both arches) is $14,990, additional implants are $900 each, and single tooth implants are $1,600. Every package includes CBCT, IV sedation, hotel and transfers.
All on 4 — One Arch — One Trip
Four implants with fixed temporary teeth the same day and the final restoration delivered in one visit. Includes CBCT, IV sedation, hotel and airport transfers.
$9000 USD / arch
All on 6 — Per Arch
Six implants per arch for a stronger bite and added support, following the same all-inclusive full-arch protocol.
$12000 USD / arch
3 on 6 — Per Arch
Six implants supporting three bridges — no bulky artificial gums, ultra-lightweight and highly stable.
$13000 USD / arch
Zygomatic Implants — Certified Placement
For severe bone loss: implants anchored in the cheekbone by a certified zygomatic surgeon, at $4,500 per unit. No bone, no problem.
$4500 USD / arch
Snap-on Dentures — Per Arch
Two to four implants supporting a removable overdenture — a lower-cost full-arch option with predictable results.
$3000 USD / arch
What the letters after a surgeon's name actually mean
Four bodies are listed further up this page. They are not the same kind of thing, and only one of them is an examination.
The degree is not the specialty
D.D.S. is the dental degree — the qualification that allows someone to practise dentistry at all. An M.S. is graduate study on top of it. Neither one is oral and maxillofacial surgery. That is a separate hospital residency taken after the dental degree, built around anaesthesia, jaw trauma, pathology and reconstruction, and it is the training that separates a surgeon from a dentist who also places implants.
Both can place an implant in easy bone. The difference shows up in the cases that are not easy: a maxilla that has resorbed under a denture for fifteen years, a sinus floor sitting where an implant needs to go, a nerve canal running closer to the ridge than the panoramic suggested, an ankylosed root that will not come out cleanly. Ask which of the two is operating before you compare two prices — the number means nothing until you know that.
A licence, a board and an association are three different things
- The licence. In Mexico a specialty carries its own professional licence, issued on top of the general one. It is the document that legally permits specialist practice. It has a number and it is checkable.
- The board. The Mexican Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery certifies by examination and recertifies periodically. Certification is something you pass, and something you can lose.
- The associations. IAOMS and ICOI are professional bodies — congresses, journals, standards, colleagues. Membership means you joined and stayed current. It is worth having and it is not an exam.
- The education foundation. AOCMF is craniomaxillofacial surgical education: courses and protocols, not a licence.
All four belong on a surgeon's page, and this is exactly what each of them is here: Dr. Omar Lugo holds the D.D.S. and M.S., is a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon, and is a member of IAOMS, ICOI, the Mexican Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and AOCMF. The distinction is worth making because a page can carry six logos and not one of them a licence, and most patients cannot tell which is which. If you want the specialty licence number and the certifying board in writing, the coordinator sends both — a surgeon who is what the page says they are expects the question.
Who you actually deal with, and what each one can decide
Four roles. The useful part is the line between what each of them is allowed to answer.
The coordinator
Your single contact, in English, from the first message to years after delivery. Hotel, transfers, appointment times, documents, and the first look at a photograph when something worries you at home. What a coordinator cannot do is decide clinical questions: whether you need a graft, how many implants, or whether your case fits one trip. Those go to the surgeon and come back to you in writing, not as a reassurance on chat.
The surgeon
Dr. Lugo reads your CBCT, writes the plan, performs the extractions and places the implants, and signs off the finished prosthetics. He also decides the angles and the number of implants in the chair, where the bone actually is rather than where a template said it would be — and he is the person who says no when a case should not proceed that week.
The lab technician
In the building, not at the end of a courier route. Your bite is checked in person rather than guessed from a shade note, and a try-in that comes back a fraction off is remade the same day on the five-axis mill. This is the role most patients never think about and the one that decides whether the final arch feels like teeth or like something in your mouth.
You
A plan is only as good as the history it was written on. Clear photographs and a recent panoramic before anyone quotes; an honest medication list, including anything taken for bone density; conditions named even when they feel unrelated; a companion on the surgery day; and the follow-up messages answered during healing. Nothing here is paperwork for its own sake — each item changes a surgical decision.
Four people is a deliberately short list. It is short because every hand-off between departments is a place where a detail gets lost — the shade note that never reached the technician, the medication mentioned to reception and not to the surgeon, the quote given by someone who had not seen the scan. In a centre this size the person who plans your case is the person who operates, the person who makes your teeth works in the same building, and the person who answers your message at nine on a Sunday already knows your name. That is the whole reason the list is four names long instead of a department chart.
What a one-surgeon practice cannot do
Every structure has a trade-off. Ours has four, and they are easier to plan around when you know them before you book a flight.
Surgery dates run on one calendar
One surgeon operating personally is the reason nothing is delegated, and also the reason there are only so many surgery days in a month. The winter weeks tend to be the ones patients travelling from the US and Canada ask for first, so they are the ones that close earliest.
Two practical consequences. Get the written plan first and the dates second, in that order. And when your case is a two-trip plan, ask for both windows at the same time — the restorative trip comes roughly four months after surgery, and it is far easier to hold a date now than to find one later.
A named surgeon is a person, and people get ill
The honest version: when a practice is built around one surgeon, the alternative to moving your date would be handing your arch to someone you have never met. That is not a trade we would make, which means the risk you carry is a rescheduled trip, not a substitute operator.
So book flights you can change, and keep a couple of flexible days at the end of the trip. Ask this question of every clinic you are considering, not only this one — the answer tells you whether the surgeon on the website is the surgeon in the room.
We are not your dentist, and you still need one
No cleanings, no fillings, no crowns on natural teeth, no orthodontics, no children. That focus is the point of the place, and it has a consequence patients should plan for: you keep a dentist at home. You need one for hygiene visits, for the tissue around the implants, and for the small things that are not worth a flight.
The same rule applies in the other direction. A case that belongs with another specialty, or that needs care in a hospital setting rather than a clinic, is referred out instead of being squeezed into a full-arch protocol.
One trip is a finding, not a promise
The One Trip plan depends on how the implants behave on the day. It suits patients who are already edentulous or free of active infection, and it only proceeds when the implants reach the insertion stability the protocol requires. That is measured in the chair, after the implants are in.
If they do not reach it, the final restoration waits and you become a two-trip case. It is a surgical decision, never a commercial one, and a clinic that guarantees a one-trip finish before anyone has seen your bone is guaranteeing something it cannot know.
The records you fly home with
Work done in one country is serviced in another. These are the items that make that possible, and what each one is for.
What you should leave with
- Your imaging files. The CBCT and the panoramic, as files rather than a printout, so a dentist at home can answer a question by opening them instead of scanning you again.
- The implant identification. Brand, system, diameter and length for every site, with the packaging labels. Nobel Biocare, Straumann and BioHorizons are placed in American and Canadian offices daily, so the components and drivers exist wherever you live.
- The prosthetic detail. Which screw, which driver, and what the bridge is retained by. A screw-retained arch is designed to be unscrewed and reseated by a dentist who has the right driver — that is the whole argument for building it that way.
- The written plan and the itemised quote, plus a note of what was actually done against what was planned. If a plan changed on day 1, the reason belongs on paper.
- Photographs of your own case at delivery. They are the baseline you will want in five years, when the question is whether something has changed or has always looked that way.
What to do with it once you are home
- Put a copy where you can find it, and a second copy in cloud storage. The folder is worth more the further away it gets from the surgery.
- Hand it to your dentist at the first hygiene visit, before there is a problem. A dentist who already knows what is in your jaw makes better decisions in an emergency than one meeting it for the first time.
- Let the professionals talk to each other. Give your dentist the coordinator's contact. Technical questions travel better between two clinicians than through a patient repeating what each of them said.
- Wear the night guard. It is included with the restorative phase for a reason: the forces of grinding are what a fixed arch likes least. If you lose it, replace it rather than going without.
- Keep the hygiene appointments. The tissue around an implant needs checking the same way a gum does, and the underside of a fixed arch is the part a toothbrush reaches worst.
Nobel Biocare implants carry a lifetime warranty from the manufacturer, and a warranty is only usable if you can prove what was placed. That is the practical reason the records matter more than the certificate: the paperwork you fly home with is what turns a treatment done abroad into a treatment any competent dentist can look after, for as long as you have it.
Why patients choose us for your treatment
Lower overhead, not lower standards. The difference is where the money goes, not what goes in your mouth.
A surgeon operates, not a general dentist
Dr. Omar Lugo is a board-certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon (D.D.S., M.S.) with 25+ years and 8,000+ American and Canadian patients. He plans your case on the CBCT, performs the surgery himself and signs off the prosthetics. Nothing is delegated.
The same implants as the USA
FDA-approved Nobel Biocare, Straumann and BioHorizons — the systems placed in American offices every day, with a lifetime warranty on the implant. No unbranded posts, no systems you cannot get serviced back home.
Our own zirconia lab, on site
Monolithic Prettau milled from a single block on five axes, with 2 to 3 try-ins. No outsourcing, no courier delays, no middleman markup — and a technician who can walk into the surgery and look at your bite in person.
A written price, locked
Your quote arrives in USD before you book a flight, itemised, with what you need and what you do not. It is locked for 12 months. No verbal estimate that changes when you are in the chair with your teeth already out.
Why Cancun for your treatment
Not just the price. The flight, the hotel, the recovery and the protocol.
2 to 4 hours, non-stop
Direct flights from Miami (~2h), Houston (~2.5h) and Dallas (~3h). You leave in the morning and you are at the clinic the same day — closer than driving across some US states for the same treatment.
Hotel and transfers included
Six nights at Fiesta Inn Cumbres for two guests, plus airport pickup and daily transport to the clinic. Your companion travels at no extra cost, and the clinic is a short walk away.
You recover on a beach
Post-surgical rest happens somewhere warm with good food and no work email, instead of at home juggling the school run. Patients consistently report it is the part they underestimated.
An implant-only centre
Not a general clinic that also does implants. IV sedation, Navident guided surgery, hospital-grade sterilisation and the Malo Clinic protocol — the same standards, in a city built for international patients.
All on 4 Dental Implants Reviews in Cancun
I researched surgeons for months before flying to Cancun. Dr. Lugo's credentials and the written quote sealed it — and the result was even better than the plan.
Susan W. — Texas
Board-certified, explains everything in plain English, and the in-house lab means nothing gets lost between companies. Two years later my full arch still feels brand new.
Michael R. — California
I was nervous about traveling for surgery. The coordinator handled the hotel, the transfers and every appointment, and Dr. Lugo did the surgery himself.
Patricia H. — Florida
The most organized dental practice I've ever been to. Every cost written down, every step explained before it happened. I never had to ask twice.
David L. — Arizona
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Start With a Free CBCT Review
Send your photos and your case is reviewed personally by Dr. Omar Lugo. You'll receive a written treatment plan and your exact USD quote within 24 hours — before you book anything.
The Dental Vacation Guide 2026
Exact costs, the included hotel, and the 1-trip vs 2-trip process — the same guide we hand every patient at consultation. No registration to read it.
- Exact All-on-4 Cancun costs: $19,800 full mouth, $14,990 One Trip
- Zirconia upgrade $7,000 both arches — never stains, most natural
- What's always included: hotel, IV sedation, CBCT scan, airport pickup
Your Full-Arch Plan Starts Here
Dr. Omar Lugo reviews every case personally. Send your photos, get your written quote, and see why patients from the US and Canada choose Cancun for the specialist — not just the price. Individual results vary with every case.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Dr. Omar Lugo?
Dr. Omar Lugo is a board-certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon (D.D.S., M.S.) with 25+ years of experience, member of IAOMS, ICOI, the Mexican Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and AOCMF. He pioneered zygomatic implants in Mexico in 2019 and personally performs every surgery at Allon4DentalCenter.
Is Allon4DentalCenter a general dental clinic?
No. It is a single-specialty implant center in Cancun built for patients flying in from the US and Canada. One surgeon, one on-site lab, and one written quote before any treatment starts.