Cost of treatment

[retsilaear]

My wife, son and I have been regular attenders at a dental practice in town as NHS patients for many years. The practice was recently sold to another party who has since advised all the NHS patients they will cease treating NHS patients from a given date. We were therefore all invited to either sign-up for a dental plan or find another dentist. Naturally, I telephoned about 20 dental practices in the town. There is only one dental practice in our town that is taking on new NHS patients and there are c.800 names on the wait list, so I have no chance of enrolling with that dentist before I snuff it. I now pay £90 p/m for the three of us, which covers “pain free” treatment. On a recent holiday, I found a cracked filling at the back of my top set. I already had a niggling sensitivity in another tooth so I went to the new dentist who told me that I needed a root canal treatment on my sensitive tooth and a crown on the large filling. That will come to £1200 as a private patient, which includes any discount I am due. You can imagine my shock and astonishment when they told me the cost. Is that the going rate for these types of treatment?