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Bunny, I think (hope!) its just a problem with my bite and the filling is OK, I had so much anaesthetic that I couldnt tell that it wasnt right at the time.

So guess whose bite is worse than his bark.

TIM ;-)

Guess I had better feed TIM with another danish, may stop the bad jokes ;>)

Tea urns is empty again....

bunny, can you save a Danish for me so that I can enjoy it after the dentists!

Of course Spacie :>)

Get them to whip the tooth out, end of trouble

jeff, thanks for that idea ;-)

Actually many years ago I went to the dentists to have a large filling done, during the drilling the tooth broke up and he had to take it it out, but when he was trying to pull it out the roots broke off and he had to dig them out. I think thats whay I hate going to the dentist so much now !!!

Now have you filled that tea urn up yet !!?? ;-)

Spacie
Like you I hate the dentist. I have had two teeth out in the last two yars and to be honest it was far less hastle and less pain than a filling or root canal. My dentist charges 140 to 240 for a filling, 400 for a root canal and only 180 for an extraction. I know a good dentist at London Bridge hospital who only charges 130 for an extraction.

43 for fillings and extractions, 180 max charge for a course of treatment (approx figs) mind you I live in the Kingdom of South Yorkshire.

I'm one of the last NHS patients in the country so it costs me about a fifth of those prices!

This is a good site for those like me who refuse to pay privately:

http://www.nhs.uk/England/Dentists/NearestSearch.aspx

Only having to go 8 miles for mine :-)

Did a search out of interest and all came up with:

This Dental Practice is

NOT Currently Accepting New Fee Paying NHS Patients
NOT Accepting New Charge Exempt Adults for NHS Treatment
NOT Accepting New Children Aged 0-18 years for NHS Treatment
DOES NOT Provide Urgent Dental Access Slots

Glad I have a dentist!

I've got an NHS dentist, mind you it really is a flea-pit of a place above some shops, cramped, dirty carpet, badly lit stairwell, ever changing staff, forever lost records, the whole lot but until I can afford a private dentist again cost is the factor so it's shut your eyes and just get the job done.

I'm very interested to be corrected by any resident dentists, but I've always thought that apart from the bed bugs lurking in the examination chair, there was little difference between what you actually get from an NHS and a private dentist.

I don't think there is Kayak, aside of more comfortable surroundings, the better likelihood of your records being found and less chance of being mugged in a stairwell! ;>)

I think one of the benefits of a private denist is that you can have a porcelain crown fitted where on the NHS it would be a metal one........To be paid for of course :-(

My dentist is private but its just an Oasis practise, however since they converted to Oasis and private the pace is much nicer and the service is very good.

Yesterdays filling cost me 66 and I think the checkup a few weeks ago was about 45. I dont think thats too bad.

I am pleased to say she skimmed a bit of yesterdays filling and now all is well.

opto, I think it's only the rear crowns the NHS want to make of metal, but you can always pay privately for them at an NHS dentist (which I have done). Also I prefer white fillings wherever possible rather than amalgam and again many of those have to be paid for privately.

NHS charges for checkups and fillings