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Health · Dental cost check

Dental Cost Reality Check

Is your dental spending proportionate, or is avoidance building a cost that will be significantly higher later?

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Dental cost check

Answer five questions about your treatment needs, avoidance, and symptoms. Podge returns: on top of it, some risk building, or the delay is already costing more than treatment would.

What this means

This tool scores your avoidance pattern, symptoms, treatment complexity, and time since your last visit to assess whether costs are manageable or already accumulating.

Formula used

Dental risk = avoidance pattern + symptom severity + treatment complexity + time since last visit

Worked example

Ongoing pain, visible problem, over 5 years since last visit = the delay is already costing more than treatment. Regular checkups, no symptoms = on top of it.

Common questions

Why does avoidance make it more expensive?
Dental problems progress. A cavity that would have been a £73 NHS filling becomes a root canal at £319 if left; a root canal that is skipped becomes an extraction and potential implant. Avoidance does not pause the problem — it changes its treatment tier.

What is the NHS dental banding system?
NHS dental treatment is grouped into three bands regardless of how much work is done in that band. Band 1 (checkup, scale and polish): £26.80. Band 2 (fillings, extractions, root canals): £73.50. Band 3 (crowns, dentures, bridges): £319.10. Once you are in a band, all that treatment is at that fixed cost.

Plain-English summary

Enter your dental situation to get a verdict on whether avoidance is saving money or building a larger cost.

This section translates the result into a short, direct takeaway rather than leaving the page at a bare number.

Disclaimer: This tool provides a cost-risk framework, not dental advice. If you have pain or visible problems, see a dentist regardless of this verdict.

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