Preteens braces private treatment

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What sort of prices are you paying?
I'm looking for a ballpark price for our preteen in London/South East. We've known for a couple of years that DC would likely need braces and they have been monitored at our nearest NHS orthodontist for a while. We are considering going privately because the NHS waiting list is so long.
Our NHS Dentist does do braces privately but won't give us even so much as a price range without us going along for a private consultation first. I'd just like an idea of whether or not it would be ridiculously expensive or would be within our reach.

I'm in the NW but have known people pay from £3K to as much as £6K depending on what's required.

Thanks. At least you've told me more than my Dentist was prepared to give away!

£5k (on 0% payment plan) for partial train tracks and then twin blocks followed by full train tracks, time scale of 2-3 years. Same place that is used by NHS, we just get more hand holding and can drop in whenever if there’s an issue. (Our dentist did a referral and they assessed as to whether or not we would be eligible on the NHS, we were but wanted to get them sorted sooner rather than later). NHS wait was 18 months.

My son started orthodontic treatment when he was 10, upper and lower braces to sort out issues with his jaw and palate, and also to assist in teeth alignment. We have paid £4k for this.

I’ve been told by our private orthodontist that most people pay between £3-£5k, though my own DC is complicated and will likely exceed that.

SE £2.7k top teeth only. Clear would have been £3k.

NW here. 3k and that's for not complicated treatment so that's probably the starting point. 0% interest if offered or interest free card is the way to go if you don't want to pay upfront.

We paid £3 for my daughters Invisalign (she didn’t want tracks), delighted with the results although she will be wearing a retainer at night for life . Start to finish it’s taken 15 weeks to close her very gappy teeth and straighten a few out ,

Wow, are waiting lists really that bad? My 13yo has top train tracks and top and bottom block retainers. We see the orthodontist every few months, all on the NHS

I think we’re paying £2.5k for DD’s. Top and bottom.

Postcode lottery. Here they usually get called a month before they turn 18. (DD was 13 when hers were fitted privately.)

The consultation alone where we go is £250! I asked receptionist for a rough price of braces overall and she said it depends what the consultation says - which I understand, but dropping £250 to then find I can’t afford the treatment is a nightmare. However, she said on average it’s 5 sessions at £800 a session 🤯

I can’t believe the absolute state of dental care in this country. We are scrambling around to find an NHS dentist as the NHS orthodontist will only do a consultation with a referral from them, but even an NHS dentist is a luxury and that’s without waitlists for treatment.

rant over, sorry!

In my area at least the teeth have to be really quite bad to qualify for nhs treatment. Ds had very high up canine teeth but because they didn't cause actual health issues it was private or put up with not having straight teeth unfortunately.

Wow. My daughter and I both had private treatment here - I am suggesting them because their orthodontist Gavin Mack is a consultant orthodontist at Kings College hospital and is brilliant, and when we went there the fees were very reasonable (10 years ago so i cant say what they would be now) https://www.kingstonhilldental.com

£2.5k in East Midlands.

£3.5k, West Midlands. NHS dentists all said 2-3 years wait so we just went private on a 0% payment plan.

£4.5k in Yorkshire

Just under 4k, not in UK. No state funded option here that i know of. You guys are lucky to have a choice!

We were told that braces now as teeth are growing (age 11) would make the process much faster and easier and only small corrections needed when she is fully grown.

7k for palate expanders for a year and then train tracks until straight which took the others (kids) about 8-9 months.

I wouldn’t go anywhere that charges on a per-session basis. It should be one price all in to get the best result achievable. Sometimes things go quicker sometimes slower. You don’t want to find it’s actually 7 sessions and oh just one more to get the gaps closed …

£3-4k for train tracks and £2-3k for Invisalign seems standard.

I’m paying £2600 for my 14 year old to have the traditional train tracks braces for about 18 months. Live in Manchester and the NHS waiting list is 4 years!!!!

£3k - south east. A fairly simple job though.

Wow that’s awful waiting lists are so long. My DD was referred by her dentist to a Bupa clinic (for nhs treatment) when she was 11 and is now due to have them off after 2 years.
I did ask how much the clear train tracks were and they were 4k.

£2.4K for top and bottom braces. It’s the same orthodontist who does NHS work but DD didn’t meet the threshold. It’s a no frills practice but they were very good and being private meant we could get appointments outside of school hours.

We’re based in South Oxfordshire.

4k for each of mine.

have to say while we went private initially as ds had his growth spurt late, meaning his teeth were fine until he was 15. He did qualify for nhs treatment, but even a 2 year waiting list would have meant nearly 18 and the braces would have been less effective.

what is also not considered with nhs wait lists is the treatment time. Dc had an appointment every 8 weeks, and was done in less than than 2 years, including an extra few months to get the alignment right. Friends with the nhs are getting appointments every 3 months, so took a lot longer to finish treatment, and the end result tends to be functional, rather than cosmetic.