If you need more dental treatment

If, within 2 calendar months of completing a course of treatment, you need more treatment from the same or lower charge band, such as another filling, you do not have to pay anything extra.

If the additional treatment needed is in a higher band, you’ll have to pay for the new NHS course of treatment. But once 2 months have passed after completing a course of treatment, you’ll have to pay the NHS charge band for any NHS dental treatment received.

Certain treatments (including lost items) are guaranteed for 12 months from the date they were completed. These are:

• fillings
• root fillings
• inlays
• porcelain veneers
• crowns

Treatments provided under this guarantee must be similar or related to the original treatment, but they do not have to be like for like.