Fillings in Wandsworth
Fillings in Wandsworth costs £120–£200 per tooth privately — the middle half of what 39 Wandsworth practices publish themselves. Wandsworth has 86 CQC-registered practices in total.
| Option | Cost (per tooth) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Private — lower | £120 | 25th percentile of published prices |
| Private — typical | £175 | Median across 39 Wandsworth practices |
| Private — upper | £200 | 75th percentile |
| NHS | £76.60 | Band 2, set nationally |
Wandsworth figure. The middle half of prices 39 Wandsworth 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 Wandsworth median is £178 — 8% above the pooled median across the 9 boroughs with published fillings data on this site (£165, n=332).
- That makes Wandsworth the 2nd most expensive of those 9 boroughs for this treatment.
- The middle half of prices runs £120–£200 (a £80 range), a wide spread: the borough has distinct budget and premium tiers. The full range is £75–£340.
- A further 15 practices list a filling price without stating the material (median £145); these are left out of the white-filling figures above.
- 38 of the 86 CQC-registered practices in Wandsworth publish a price for this treatment (44%); the figures describe those 38, not the whole borough.
- 3 of the 38 practices are group-owned; their median is £170 against £180 for independents.
- 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 Wandsworth | Middle half | Practices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond upon Thames | £168 | £10 less | £125–£180 | 30 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | £164 | £14 less | £140–£207 | 30 |
The lowest neighbouring median is Hammersmith and Fulham at £164 — £14 below Wandsworth, from 30 published prices. Both are published prices, not quotes; a practice sets its own fee whichever borough it sits in.
Why do some Wandsworth practices list under half the median?
3 of 38 published prices are below £89: Battersea Bridge Dental Practice (£75), Lavender Hill Dental Practice (£75), Battersea Dental Practice (£85). 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 (Balham Dental Studio / Balham Dental Care). 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 38 published prices in the table below; it changes when the data changes.
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53 Wandsworth 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.
- Dental Beauty Battersea SW11 4PR
- Balham Gateway Dental SW12 9AZ
- Perfect Smile Associates Limited - Putney branch SW15 1RG
- Perfect Smile Associates Limited - Earlsfield branch SW18 4ST
- Balham Dental Studio SW12 9AA
- The Cosmetic Dental Gallery (Battersea) SW8 4EY
- The Dental Lounges London SW18 4SX
- Direct Dental SW18 4GR
- Century Dental Clinic SW15 6AW
- Ethicare Dental SW15 6TG
- Prodenta SW11 1TH
- Vere Dental SW11 4FZ
- Bupa Dental Care Putney SW15 2TX
- Smilodental SW18 1AY
- Smiles@Preventivedental.com SW18 5LT
- Tooting Bec Dental Practice SW17 7EN
- Glow Dental SW11 6PL
- Riverside Dental Practice SW15 1LN
- York Road Dental Practice SW18 1SP
- Green Dental Care SW11 3QA
- Battersea Dental Practice SW8 3RE
- Putney Dentists SW15 6NL
- Dr M Amir Dental Practice SW15 1JT
- Perfect Smile Battersea SW11 5QW
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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.