Does the price include the treatment?

Usually not. It buys the appointment and the diagnosis. Expect a second quote for the filling, extraction or root canal that follows.

What does out of hours add?

Where practices publish an out of hours price it sits well above the daytime one. The figures above separate the two.

UK price guide · read 10 August 2026

How much does an emergency dentist cost in the UK?

The median published price for an emergency dental appointment in the UK is £85. That is the middle of 562 prices read off the fee pages of 417 practices on 10 August 2026. One in ten publish under £50 and one in ten publish over £177.

An emergency appointment buys you the visit: an examination, a diagnosis and something to get you through the night. Whatever the tooth then needs is a second bill, and the published price almost never includes it.

The published market, end to end

Every practice that publishes a price for an emergency dental appointment is one tick on this line. Where the ticks bunch up is where the market agrees.

£50

1 in 10 charge less

£85

Median

£177

1 in 10 charge more

Each tick is one hundredth of the published market, for one appointment.

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Check a quote against any of the 18 treatments

What the range covers

Two quotes that look far apart are often two different treatments. These are the splits practices price separately, measured on the same fee pages.

Published prices for one appointment, split by type
Type	Cheapest tenth	Median	Dearest tenth	Prices read
Registered patient	£55	£85	£177	99
New or unregistered patient	£75	£99	£195	94
Out of hours	£89	£240	£395	27

A price can appear in more than one row where a practice names both, so the rows do not sum to the total.

What moves the price

Whether you are already a patient there. Practices charge new patients more.
Out of hours. Evenings, weekends and bank holidays are their own price.
Whether treatment on the day is included or quoted after the examination.
How much of the pain relief is done at that first visit.

“From £89” is not a discount. 117 practices advertise this treatment as a “from” price, and the middle of those headline figures is £89 against a median firm price of £85. The word buys the practice room, not you.

On the NHS

Urgent treatment

£27.90

in England, whole course

One charge for urgent care, whatever the appointment turns out to need.

NHS urgent treatment is a single charge, whatever the appointment turns out to need. Getting one is the hard part, which is why practices publish a private emergency price at all.

Privately, the same work has a median published price of £85.

NHS charges apply in England; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland set their own. Figures from nhs.uk, read on 11 August 2026.

What England, Wales and Scotland each charge for this

Questions people ask

Does the price include the treatment?: Usually not. It buys the appointment and the diagnosis. Expect a second quote for the filling, extraction or root canal that follows.
What does out of hours add?: Where practices publish an out of hours price it sits well above the daytime one. The figures above separate the two.

How these prices were measured

This page rests on 562 prices for an emergency dental appointment, part of 39,049 prices read from 1,481 fee pages across 983 UK practice websites on 10 August 2026.

Every figure comes off a practice's own public fee page. Nothing is a survey, an estimate or a model.
One price counts once per fee page. A chain's branches all carry the group's list, and counting each branch would let one price list decide the market.
Prices written as "from £X" are counted separately, not mixed in. That figure is the cheapest case a practice leads with, and it reads the market low.
Prices covering a whole arch or a full set of teeth are left out of a per-tooth figure, because they sit at the top of every distribution.
Only the 10th percentile, the median and the 90th are published. The extremes of a scraped corpus are where a mis-read price lands, and no single row can move a percentile.
Lines that name a different job are dropped per treatment. Re-cementing a crown is not the price of a crown, and an extra whitening syringe is not the price of whitening.