toothache.fyi

Fuelled by pain, not your data.

The problem
Same treatment, wildly different prices, and nowhere to compare. On the NHS a check-up is £27.90. Privately, within 6 miles of Canary Wharf, the same check-up costs £30 to £117; root canal across East London, the City and Southwark, £250 to £1,108. And the listings flatter: when the British Dental Association phoned 100 practices listed as taking NHS patients, only 1 in 10 could.
What it does
  • Real price discovery: every nearby price for the treatment you need, against the NHS price.
  • Really taking patients: we show when each practice last confirmed it, so a stale claim looks stale. Next: patients tap “they said no” to flag the rest, anonymously.
  • Nearest: walk (under 1 mile), drive (under 6), or further.
  • Securely send: a photo of the tooth, or any file, through Refueler Share.
How to use it
  1. Pick what you need: a check-up, an emergency visit or another treatment.
  2. Type your postcode, or use your location. It never leaves your phone.
  3. See the lowest and highest price near you, next to the NHS price.
  4. Slide your budget, tap a practice and call them.

In pain now? Any NHS dentist can see you urgently for £27.90. Call 111. Swelling or trouble breathing: call 999.

Made for
Anyone with a phone and a sore tooth.
How it runs
A weekly job reads NHS listings, the CQC register and each practice's own price list, then rebuilds the site. About ten minutes of human attention a month.

Privacy

No ads, no paid placement and no money from dentists. Every price links to the practice's own page, with the date we read it.

No cookies, trackers, analytics or accounts. The page makes no requests to any other website, and your browser enforces that. Your postcode or location is used on your phone and never sent to us. Nothing is remembered between visits. A practice's website opens only when you tap its link.

Cloudflare hosts the site. Like any web host it sees each visit's request (your IP address and browser), never your postcode. We don't use its analytics.

Sources: prices read from practice websites and hand-checked, 20–22 Oct 2026; which practices say they take NHS patients, NHS website, read 21 Oct 2026; NHS charges, NHSBSA, from 1 April 2026; BDA survey reported by Dentistry.co.uk, 27 Jun 2024; practice counts, CQC directory, 14 Oct 2026. Not dental advice.