If a mucous gland cyst occurs in the lower lip or buccal mucosa, it can be treated with local anesthesia, usually in an outpatient setting, and surgical removal, usually at a cost of more than $400. If it is a smaller child or a cyst on the tip of the tongue, it usually needs to be treated in hospital, and the smaller child may need general anesthesia, and the cost of the whole operation will be higher, because the cost of general anesthesia is several thousand dollars, plus the cost of several hundred dollars for the operation, and then some instruments, the cost of the examination, may be about four or five thousand dollars. If it is a mucous gland cyst in the lower lip or buccal mucosa, it can be done on an outpatient basis for a few hundred dollars, but if you want to be hospitalized, the cost may be higher.