A Foreword
In the old days a man with a toothache went to the barber, the blacksmith or the mountebank at the fair, and paid whatever was demanded before he could ask. It is the purpose of this Ledger that no patient in the northern parts of London need do the same.
We are not a practice, and we treat no one. We are a plain record of what practices publish as their fees, kept with the date on which we saw each figure and the place we saw it. Where a practice tells us nothing, we write nothing.
The first book in English devoted to the teeth, The Operator for the Teeth by Charles Allen, was printed in York in 1685 and reissued in Dublin in 1686. Allen followed it in 1687 with Curious Observations in that Difficult Part of Chirurgery Relating to the Teeth. It is the nearest thing our headings have to a patron.
The old style of the headings is a small pleasure and no more. Everything beneath them is written in plain modern English, because a price is only useful if you can read it.
What the physician would have you remember
A fee on this site is a starting point for your enquiry and not a quotation. Prices change, and a treatment plan depends on your own mouth, which only a registered dentist can examine. Ask for a written plan and total before you agree to any treatment, and ask what is included and what is charged extra.
If you are in pain, swelling, or bleeding that will not stop, do not wait on a price table. Call your dentist, or NHS 111 if you cannot reach one.