Based on a dentist's ad in the Deseret News Jan. 4, 1886 (the day Utah became a state), a few dollars used to pay for a lot of dental work. (Of course, patients back then often had to work a week to earn those few dollars.)
APPROXIMATE COST OF DENTAL SERVICES
1896 TODAY
Extraction 50cents $50
Filling $1 $87
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Crown $6 $485