I had a surreal experience thus morning when walking the dog. Another dog on the field decided to jump up at my face and chip half a crown out of my front tooth.

I am not currently registered with any dentists because I have never bothered after leaving the forces 3 years ago.

I presume that i will have to pay for a new crown. Anyone have any ideas on the cost?

I just want to brace (no Pun intended) myself for a hefty bill.

Cheers

It'll cost you a lot more than half a crown

i think a subsidised NHS dentist charges 200 plus so private will be...........................

Find an NHS dentist (not as hard as the newspapers will have you think)

I had a full crown fitted at a completely private dentist some years ago for £800 - the NHS one that I use now has a maximum cap (no pun) on costs, can't recall what it is but the £200 mentioned above sounds familiar.

Was it a boxer?

There are more NHS dentists places available than you think. The max they can charge is £204 for a course of treatment so if you haven't been for three years they will sort everything out for that price. They have to do the work so that you are able to be pain and discomfort free and havea healthy mouth and teeth.

Yep been there. Happened twice in fact. The first time I suffered a black eye, and the second a bloody nose. That's not counting the number of times my own dogs have headbutted me aswell.

Can't help with dental side of things I'm afraid, all my health care including dental work is taken care of by Menzis, a Dutch private health care company.

No it was a dog.

Surely an ambulance chaser will take up your case

Claim on their pet insurance policy? If applicable.

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don't you mean second class NHS dentist charges 200 plus, so private will be .... three times the price but done properly?

Don't be too hard on NHS dentists, in my recent experience the only thing that differs between paying £120 for a filling and £27 for a filling is the amount of time that gets spent and the fact that the NHS dentist popped out to do an inspection on someone else while the anesthetic took affect, I can live with that, same equipment, same treatment, same excellent result - I don't need to pay for 45 minutes of private use of a dental surgery just for a filling which is effectively what I used to do - its like booking your car in for a service and then insisting that no-one else uses the garage while you are there.

Won't be long before we see the sight of the red & white barber's pole returning on the high street. We could have hairdressers bidding for NHS work - "wash, cut, blowdry and two crowns"

Who needs anti-biotics when a couple of, expertly-applied leeches will do the job?

not my experience mate. think ive only ever had one bad experience in 50 plus years and they sorted it promptly.
whether true or not, but ive heard/read private will do un necessary work just to get the ££££££s.
i ll stick with NHS and take my chances.........

We have private cover available through work (I am not in it though) and a colleague went to have some work done at a plush private practice and ended up in ER. The NHS dentist eventually sorted it out.

Paying 5 times as much is not always getting you a better service.