Fillings in Brent
Fillings in Brent costs £100–£160 per tooth privately — the middle half of what 27 Brent practices publish themselves. Brent has 84 CQC-registered practices in total.
| Option | Cost (per tooth) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Private — lower | £100 | 25th percentile of published prices |
| Private — typical | £150 | Median across 27 Brent practices |
| Private — upper | £160 | 75th percentile |
| NHS | £76.60 | Band 2, set nationally |
Brent figure. The middle half of prices 27 Brent practices publish themselves, read August 2026; “from” prices and narrower variants excluded. Across London the middle half is £120–£195 from 894 practices. Method.
- The Brent median is £150 — 9% below the pooled median across the 9 boroughs with published fillings data on this site (£165, n=332).
- That makes Brent the 8th most expensive of those 9 boroughs for this treatment.
- The middle half of prices runs £100–£160 (a £60 range), a moderate spread. The full range is £55–£295.
- A further 15 practices list a filling price without stating the material (median £100); these are left out of the white-filling figures above.
- 26 of the 84 CQC-registered practices in Brent publish a price for this treatment (31%); the figures describe those 26, not the whole borough.
- All figures are per tooth, taken from each practice's own fee guide, so they can be compared like for like.
| Neighbouring borough | Median | vs Brent | Middle half | Practices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnet | £150 | same as Brent | £120–£180 | 54 |
| Westminster | £195 | £45 more | £150–£250 | 80 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | £164 | £14 more | £140–£207 | 30 |
Why do some Brent practices list under half the median?
1 of 26 published prices are below £75: Kilburn Dental Studio (£55). A figure this far below the borough median is often a narrower product than the rest of the table (a single session, a top-up, or an introductory offer) — check what the practice's fee guide includes before comparing.
Why does the same practice name appear twice?
1 name recurs (Dental Surgery / The Dental Care Centre). The CQC registers each location separately, and some practices hold two registrations at one address. Each row links to its own CQC registration and each row is counted in the figures above; if the pair is one practice, read it as a single price point.
Every statement above is computed from the 26 published prices in the table below; it changes when the data changes.
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41 Brent practices publish this fee. Each figure is the practice's own published price, read August 2026; narrower variants (“from” prices, child or temporary work) are excluded. Sorted lowest first.
A low figure is a real published fee, not a quote — complexity can change the price. Always confirm. How we verify
Composite versus amalgam
Most private fillings are tooth-coloured composite, bonded in layers and cured with a light. Silver amalgam is cheaper and still used on the NHS for back teeth, though its use is being phased down across the UK. Composite takes longer to place, which is most of the price difference.
Why quotes vary so much for the same tooth
Practices price by surfaces — how many faces of the tooth the filling covers. A one-surface filling and a three-surface filling are often quoted as one number on a website, so ask which case the published price refers to before comparing two practices.
The NHS alternative
Fillings sit in NHS Band 2, £76.60, which covers everything in Band 1 plus any number of fillings needed in that course of treatment. If you need three fillings, the NHS charge is still £76.60 — which is where the NHS is at its most competitive.
The faster “bulk-fill” technique lasts as well as the slower layered one, so a practice charging a premium for either should be able to say why.
Pooling nine randomised trials covering 632 restorations found no statistically significant difference in failure rates between bulk-fill and incrementally layered composites, over both short and longer follow-up. Marginal adaptation, discolouration and post-operative sensitivity were comparable too. The practical difference is chair time, not durability.
- Zailai A, Alharbi ZA, Dowairi F, et al. Clinical performance and survival of bulk-fill resin composites compared to conventional resin composites in posterior permanent teeth: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Cureus 2025;17(12):e99792. doi:10.7759/cureus.99792 · CC BY 4.0
Prices on this page are ours, read from practices' own fee guides. The finding above is independent peer-reviewed research, cited so you can check it. All sources and licences.
Every practice below is on the CQC register. Contact them directly — we take no enquiries and no practice pays to appear here.
- Kingsbury Dental Practice 1 NW9 9EG
- Kingsbury Dental Practice 2 NW9 9QD
- Monteiro Dental Clinic North NW10 8SE
- Harrow Road Dental Surgery HA0 2RH
- Visiting Specialist Services Limited NW10 7FQ
- Arch Dental Studio HA9 0NP
- Icedent NW2 4RA
- Kensal Rise Dental Practice NW10 3JL
- Colindale Smile Clinic NW9 6NB
- Colindale Smile Clinic NW9 6NB
- Ixia Dental HA3 0XN
- Zental (Cricklewood) Ltd NW2 3JX
- Orchid Dental Practice NW10 2PB
- Cricklewood Dental Practice NW2 3HY
- The Doctor's Method NW6 6NP
- Inspire Dental Care NW6 7QE
- Clocktower Dental Surgery NW10 4RX
- Serio Dental NW10 3JR
- Dental Surgery NW6 7QB
- 211 Dental HA9 8EL
- M & J Dental Surgery HA3 0QJ
- Cape House Dental Practice HA9 6DG
- Central Dental Care - Wembley HA0 2DW
- Pristine Dental Group NW9 9ED
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Private prices move with the postcode, and the borough boundary is often a short bus ride.
Prices are compiled from the fee guides practices publish themselves and always need confirming with the practice before treatment. DentistFees is not a dental practice and does not give clinical advice. See our sources.