After a break of 16 years I have been regularly going to the dentist again for the last 2.5 years. I go to an expensive private dentists Flint's on Abbey lane, but most of the fees are covered by Westfield scheme. I couldn't get into any other dentist at the time and spent hours on the phone being passed to other dentists who weren't full, but miles away. My normal fees for the year are coming in at around £220-250 a year. Including 30 minutes of hygenist, where they have a specialist scraping, cleaning and polishing every 3 months and an X-ray every other year. Now the service and personnel are second to none, and the facilities are quiet and spotless. But I was wondering how this compares to other people's fees and experiences.

i go to the dentist on langsett road. It costs about £15 for a checkup once every 6 months, and a filling is about £30. I believe that's private as i've never filled in any forms for anything, which i presume you would if it was nhs?

I go to Forge Farm Dentists on Stannington Road every 6 months, but I don't pay due to being on disabled benefits... And no I am not workshy before anyone starts, I just can't get a job because employers won't employ me cos I'm disabled.

ringinglow rd and hes very good, cos im not the biggest dentist fan. the lady helper holds ur hand if needs be

I have an NHS dentist and pay £17 about twice a year for a check up, scale and polish. Last filling was about 4 years ago and that was only about £30. My last dentist went private about 12 years ago and wanted me to pay £14 pcm to stay with his practice. In that time I've had £150 worth of repair work, plus 12x2 check ups.

So:

Private 12 (years) x 12 (months) x £14 = £2016
NHS 12 (years) x 2 (twice a year) x £17 + £150 = £558

I always wondered if i was ripped off. I hate dentists, so not been for 2 years. Had bad toothache in August, so went to one on Abbeydale Road. It was a tricky filling involving a temporary one, and then a white permanent one, and it cost me £260. I paid it cos the pain was bad, but I alwyas thought it a little expensive.

I pay whatever the NHS fees are, being a student I cant afford private and even if I wasnt one, I wouldnt pay their prices anyway.

I had two fillings last week and it cost about £24.

I've been going to my dentist at School Road, Crookes before I can remember. Despite having to have all my front teeth removed when I was 5 or 6 I don't mind going to the dentist at all.

What worries me nowadays is the fact that the dentists are now younger than me! I'd pay between £6 and around £15 for a check-up (now every nine months) but have had a filling at about £80.

However, this was passed onto Westfield. I can't recommend this service enough; I've saved an absolute bomb on dental and optical treatment/purchases.

I go to Forge Farm dentists on Stannington Road also.

Don't pay anything cause I'm in full time education.

I go once a year to the dentist on London Rd, Mr Darling. It's near the post office. I pay for my treatment, although it is subsidised by the NHS. I pay around £12 for a check up and polish and scale. Fillings are about a fiver more than that.

I have been going to the Crystal Peaks Medical centre for the last two years,the service is very good although there can be a long wait for an appointment but i suppose that is like a lot of dentists.
Another plus point is that whilst there are five dentists there,there are also five doctors down stairs and the vets is next door, all it needs is an A&E next door aswell then im sorted!

Originally posted by NatalieSheff
ringinglow rd and hes very good, cos im not the biggest dentist fan. the lady helper holds ur hand if needs be

there are a couple on Ringinglow Road Natalie..which one do you mean?? I go to the one at the bottom and the bloke in the downstairs surgery is absolutely fantastic..and I'm a BIG coward lol!!

I to am terrified of the dentist...Always think they could have been doctors but like using the funky dental drills a bit too much.

After a gap of nearly eight years I signed up to Forge Farm on Stannington Road...really nice people and a painless root canal didn't cost that much.

...not too sure how much a painful one would cost though.

Originally posted by max
I have an NHS dentist and pay £17 about twice a year for a check up, scale and polish.

Same here. Had quite a lot of work done over the past couple of months (fillings,root removed ect) came to about £80,which i thought was pretty good value.

i have a very good nhs dentist (elizibeth heaney) at stubley lane in dronfield

Originally posted by Rich
I go to Forge Farm Dentists on Stannington Road every 6 months, but I don't pay due to being on disabled benefits... And no I am not workshy before anyone starts, I just can't get a job because employers won't employ me cos I'm disabled.

I go there, i dont like it much dentist scare me and mine was rude, all becasue i wouldn't have a scale and polish.

I don’t go to dentist’s full stop.

The only way you would ever get me in a dentist is if you knocked me out and carried me in there. I don’t care what people say but I am never stepping inside a dentist again. And that is how strongly I feel.

This time last year I got a dentist (my usual nice one was away) and she was like the evil dentist you have dreams about. She drilled right into my gum saying it was necessary and she had to get the bad out making me scream and cry even though id had anaesetic (sp)

its terrified me for life (I wasn’t too clever with dentists before that incident)

I now live with a crater in my mouth in one of my chewing teeth at the back that can fit a peanut in (gross I no) I look after the rest of my teeth religiously so that I don’t ever have any more problems because there is no way the dentist is going near me.

My mum keeps booking me appointments and I keep cancelling them. I don’t mind paying my mum the cancellation fee cos if it gets me out of the dentist I’m willing to do anything.

But before I was scared I went to Ffolliot and bird (I think?) on south road walkley and I believe that is a private dentist as my mum pays but I’m in full time education at college still.

I went for the first time in 14 years back in Feb. Now my gob is a mess!!

I have a stupid Gold half crown thing when i only wanted a tooth smoothing off that had been chipped when opening a bottle.
I also now have a couple of sensitive teeth that were fine before i went!.

Needless to say i will not be going back to the dentist's on Norfolk Park :rant:

I go to Charles Cliffords and let the students practise.

After having dentists that caused pain and misery I would not go anywhere else. With being given the opportunity to have the students do my teeth I am so glad cause they are brill.

I go to the dentists at porterbrook even though i now live in hackenthorpe. I can't get into one round here. Porterbrook is ok except all the dentists look newly qualified. But they are NHS and it never costs me much more than £15.
A note on crystal peaks medical centre it is nearer to my house than hackenthorpe surgey but they wouldn't let me register because i live the wrong side of the line. i had always though you could chose your GP?

Originally posted by IanMitchell
I go to Forge Farm dentists on Stannington Road also.

Perhaps you might be able to help on this query in that case

A little birdy told me that they currently don't allow you to make appointments months in advance (like in the past), they instead advise you to ring up a month before you are due to go. I find this a strange change in policy and wondered what had brought it about?

I've been going to the one in Greenhill all my life. It's been good for me but I've never had any work done in my life..so maybe thats why I don't mind it.

I use Forge Farm and although I am quite nervous of the dentist I think they are great. No messing around/ waiting, no- nonsense in and out as quickly as possible.
The new appointment system is that they will write to you about a month before your check up is due to ask you to make an appointment. Basically giving everyone an appointment in 6 months time was leading people to forget and not turn up, so this way attendance is improved.
It costs about £5 for a check up and £20-£30 for a filling I think.

Little story about dentists.
We moved to Sheffield from Penistone last year but kept our NHS dentist in Penistone because of the hassle involved in changing. Two weeks ago we had a letter from him saying that "exciting new developments" were taking place. It went on to say that he was going private and you could like it or lump it. My wife went for an assesment only to find a revamped waiting room (wooden flooring, leather couches, LCD TV etc) and the dentists new X5 (with private plates) parked outside. My wife had a check and was told that it would only cost her £120 per year for Denplan cover. Previous costs were £30 for 2 check ups per year.
We decided that if we had to go private we might as well change to a local dentist anyway and after a recommendation phoned a dentist in Broomhill and found that they were still taking NHS patients. Happy ending to the story.
It's upset the folks in Penistone though and made the front page of the Barnsley Chron last week.

at least we're ok in sheffield with open nhs lists, rather than being somewhere with scarborough with none...

I go to porterbrook and had to have my first filling 2 months ago. After 5 appointments when Id been told the wrong time by the receptionist (and yes i was checking very carefully cos I thought i was going mad by the the 3rd wrong appointment!) I had my filling.
It cost £50 and 2 weeks later i had to have it removed cos theyd messed it up AND injected the wrong side of my mouth so i was a dribbling fool for a night.
Had it taken out and they injected into the nerve and it hurt loads, then they put a temporary one in.

Got another appointment to have it done again next week and now I'm really scared...