Fillings in Islington
20 dental practices in Islington publish what they charge for fillings. Half of them ask between £139 and £191 for a tooth, and the middle price is £175 — 6% above the pooled median of £165 across the 9 boroughs where we hold fillings prices. The figures below are those practices' own published fees, read in August 2026, each one linked to the practice and its CQC registration. They are not quotes: what you pay depends on what the examination finds. On the NHS a filling is a Band 2 charge of £76.60, however many teeth are treated in the course.
| Option | Cost (per tooth) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Private — lower | £139 | 25th percentile of published prices |
| Private — typical | £175 | Median across 20 Islington practices |
| Private — upper | £191 | 75th percentile |
| NHS | £76.60 | Band 2, set nationally |
How this is worked out. Every figure comes from a price list the practice publishes itself. We drop “from” prices, which describe the cheapest possible case rather than a price, and variants narrower than the treatment named. 20 Islington practices remain. The middle price across all 9 boroughs we cover is £165. How we read a fee guide.
- The Islington median is £175 — 6% above the pooled median across the 9 boroughs with published fillings data on this site (£165, n=332).
- That makes Islington the 3rd most expensive of those 9 boroughs for this treatment.
- The middle half of prices runs £139–£191 (a £52 range), a moderate spread. The full range is £90–£250.
- A further 8 practices list a filling price without stating the material (median £110); these are left out of the white-filling figures above.
- 20 of the 51 CQC-registered practices in Islington publish a price for this treatment (39%); the figures describe those 20, not the whole borough.
- 4 practices list exactly £180 — the single most common published price in Islington.
- All figures are per tooth, taken from each practice's own fee guide, so they can be compared like for like.
Every statement above is computed from the 20 published prices in the table below; it changes when the data changes.
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28 Islington 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.
- Islington Smiles N1 1RU
- Blue Pearl Dental Care N7 7NS
- Old Street Dental Clinic EC1V 9HX
- Smilecare Dental Centre N19 5QT
- City Dental Clinic EC1Y 4SE
- Hornsey Dental Centre N4 3DS
- Vistara Smiles N5 2XE
- St Clements City Dental Care EC1M 4AY
- Moorgate Dental EC1Y 2AA
- Dental & Wellness N1 3AP
- yourdental Wellness N1 2UQ
- Digismile Group N1 8LU
- IGDP Limited N1 0NY
- London Dental Centre EC1V 3RQ
- Malmin Orthodontics Barbican EC1A 4JQ
- Dental Beauty Islington N1 1QN
- Kindandental N1 4QY
- N Patel - Dental Surgery N19 4HT
- London City Smiles N1 9LQ
- AP Dental Practice N1 1BB
- B Dental N1 1QB
- Chopra & Associates H M Prison Pentonville N7 8TT
- Zero:Seven Dental Practice EC1M 4AA
- The London Orthodontic Clinic EC1V 1AD
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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.