very OT NHS dental Walk-in Centres

Brazil in my case, but could have been portuguese, I guess.

Take your custom elsewhere. What sort of private contract do you have?

Wait till evening and use the emergency cover dentist.

Sorry, didn't answer your question.

MBQ

In my area Dentaline provides out-of-hours emergency dental services based in local hospitals. They charge NHS prices. I don't know whether other areas have this type of service.

Yes they do exist. I had a lot of toothache in April and my dentist was stuck abroad due to the volcanic ash. The dentists gave me the number of the walk in centre in case I could not make it through the weekend. Apparently A&E would have turned me away (odd really as I am now under a consultant to sort out the problem caused by the long delay in treatment).

I did not use the centre, but it was nice to know it existed.

You have my sypmathy.

Being fed up with paying the vast sums for private dentistry, I've now gone back to the NHS. Hadn't the option before - there weren't any NHS dentists round here. But there are now. Phoned up on Monday, and went in to register. Got an appointment Tuesday. Expecting it just to be a checkup

- but no, he did all the required work there and then as well. I'm impressed.

Bet you he's gone Denplan or private only within two years.

MBQ

That's good to hear. Maybe NHS dental is improving.

Just do it yourself - SDS chisel and car body filler.

When you've seen a quote from an Orthodontist for braces to realign gnashers you realise that the regular day to day work charged by private dentist is quite reasonable. i.e. for upper and lower braces =3D =A33800 Thats for the ugly betty style metal braces too, not the invisible type.

Dave.

Doubt it. What seems to have happened is the market is saturated with private dentists round here. So many have moved back to taking new NHS patients. They get a very much better deal than they did some years ago. Of course it's not fashionable to say Labour did improve the NHS in some ways.

Angle grinder, mini drill and some snipe nose pliers work reeel gud :-)