Personally, I hate the Dentist! They should all be locked in small cat baskets and thrown in a river! Having had crowns fitted as a teen, I then didn't go for @15 years - When I did it was to have the remains of a broken back tooth repaired where my wisdom tooth had broken up through it! Pah! (I pulled the wisdom tooth out myself rather than see the dentist!) I now go every 8 - 9 months, and 'touch wood', haven't needed treatment since that repair!
The NHS system supports everyone in the UK, unless they elect for private treatment. The difficulty is nowadays, hardly any dentists take on NHS patients, because their rates are capped! The unemployed, however get pretty much everything free..... and benefits!
As asked above, the price varies by bands, and each band has options within it. These are presently as follows:
Band 1 course of treatment: £17.50 clinical examination, case assessment and report orthodontic case assessment and report advice, dental charting, diagnosis and treatment planning radiographic examination, including panoral and lateral headplates, and radiological report study casts including in association with occlusal analysis colour photographs instruction in the prevention of dental and oral disease including dietary advice and dental hygiene instruction surface application as primary preventive measures of sealants and topical fluoride preparations scaling, polishing and marginal correction of fillings taking material for pathological examination adjustments to and easing of dentures or orthodontic appliances treatment of sensitive cementum
Band 2 course of treatment: £48.00 non-surgical periodontal treatment including root-planing, deep scaling, irrigation of periodontal pockets and subgingival curettage and all necessary scaling and polishing surgical periodontal treatment, including gingivectomy, gingivoplasty or removal of an operculum surgical periodontal treatment, including raising and replacement of a mucoperiosteal flap, curettage, root planning and bone resection free gingival grafts permanent fillings in amalgam, composite resin, synthetic resin, glass ionomer, compomers, silicate or silico-phosphate, including acid etch retention sealant restorations endodontic treatment of permanent or retained deciduous teeth pulpotomy apicectomy extraction of teeth transplantation of teeth oral surgery including surgical removal of cyst, buried root, unerupted tooth, impacted tooth or exostosed tooth and alveolectomy soft tissue surgery in relation to the buccal cavity and lips frenectomy, frenuloplasty, frenotomy relining and rebasing dentures including soft linings addition of tooth, clasp, labial or buccal flange to dentures splints (other than laboratory made splints) in relation to periodontally compromised teeth and in connection with external trauma bite raising appliances (other than laboratory made appliances)
Band 3 course of treatment: £209.00 laboratory made porcelain or composite veneers, including acid etch retention inlays, pinlays, onlays and palatal veneers, in alloys containing 60% or more fine gold, porcelain, composite resin and ceramics crowns including any pin or post aids to retention: - full or three-quarter crown cast in alloys containing not less than 33⅓% fine gold or platinum or palladium - full or jacket crown cast in alloys containing stainless steel or cobalt chromium or nickel chromium - crown in porcelain, synthetic resin and other non-metallic crowns - full or jacket crowns in alloys containing not less than 33⅓% fine gold or platinum or palladium, or alloys containing stainless steel or cobalt chromium or nickel chromium, with thermally bonded porcelain - jacket crown thermally bonded to wrought platinum coping - prefabricated full or jacket crown, including any pin or post retention bridges including any pin or post aids to retention: - bridges in alloys containing 60% or more fine gold with or without thermally bonded facings - bridges cast in alloys containing stainless steel, cobalt chromium or nickel chromium, with or without thermally bonded facings - acid etch retained bridges - bridges in other materials - provision of full (completed) or partial dentures, overdentures and obturators in synthetic resin or metal or both synthetic resin and metal, including any cast or wrought metal components or aids to retention - orthodontic treatment and appliances - other custom made applications excluding sports guards
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