Is there any difference in quality between the NHS crown and a private crown?
Q. Hi. Thank you for offering your advice here. I’ve had a porcelain and metal bonded crown on my main front left tooth for the last 6 years. It is fitted on my actual tooth which has been filed down to a small stub. Recently my porcelain crown broke in the middle of the night. It just fell apart at 5am. I didn’t bang it and dont hink i have ever banged it as im very carefull with it. Only the porcelain broke off. The black metal is still on my tooth with the permenant dentist glue. I have a HC2 certificate. What is the difference between an NHS crown and a private crown? Shouldn’t the quality of a NHS crown be the same as a private crown? Am I entitled to request, under my entitlement to rights from NHS dental treatment received, that i would like the NHS crown to be the same quality as a private crown? Am I entitled to an all ceramic crown under my NHS HC2 certificate rather than a porcelain/metal bonded crown? It is for my main front left tooth. Looking forward to your advice. Many many thanks.
A. Unfortunatley I am a private practitioner, therefore I am unsure about the particular forms however I think that NHS dentists are restricted to certain laboratories therefore they are unable to choose their own technician maybe thats why the quality differs.
I’m having to have root canal . My dentist has told me that I can not have an NHS rootcanal and a private crown . Is this the case as having it private means I have to pay £950 for both . Why can you not have NHS root canal at £275 and a private crown at £400 making it £750 .
Also surely the service she is offering private would be the same level of service as NHS .
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