Fillings in Tower Hamlets
20 dental practices in Tower Hamlets publish what they charge for fillings. Half of them ask between £138 and £172 for a tooth, and the middle price is £150 — 9% below the London index figure of £165 for fillings (the median of the 9 borough medians we publish). 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 | £138 | 25th percentile of published prices |
| Private — typical | £150 | Median across 20 Tower Hamlets practices |
| Private — upper | £173 | 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 Tower Hamlets practices remain. The middle price across all 9 boroughs we cover is £165. How we read a fee guide.
- The Tower Hamlets median is £150 — 9% below the median of all 332 fillings prices published across those 9 boroughs (£165).
- That makes Tower Hamlets the least expensive of those 9 boroughs for this treatment.
- The middle half of prices runs £138–£172 (a £34 range), a moderate spread. The full range is £100–£220.
- A further 8 practices list a filling price without stating the material (median £108); these are left out of the white-filling figures above.
- 20 of the 60 CQC-registered practices in Tower Hamlets publish a price for this treatment (33%); the figures describe those 20, not the whole borough.
- 2 of the 20 practices are group-owned; their median is £170 against £150 for independents.
- 5 practices list exactly £150 — the single most common published price in Tower Hamlets.
- All figures are per tooth, taken from each practice's own fee guide, so they can be compared like for like.
Why does the same practice name appear twice?
1 name recurs (Together Dental Whitechapel / Together Dental Whitechapel). 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 20 published prices in the table below; it changes when the data changes.
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28 Tower Hamlets 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.
- Impress London E1 6AG
- Malmin Dental E14 4PZ
- Fresh Springs Dental Practice Limited E1 7NE
- Altmore Dental Practice E14 3UU
- Wapping Dental Centre E1W 3DD
- Innovadent Dental Clinic E14 9LS
- Dental Beauty Bow E3 5ES
- Hermitage Clinic E1W 1NR
- Mile End Dental Practice E1 4AA
- Damira Docklands E3 4JJ
- Abbey Dental Whitechapel E1 1BJ
- SDA Dental Studio E14 8NW
- Smilestone Dental & Facial Clinic E2 7QL
- Alba Dental Care E1 7NE
- Banning Dental Group – Tower Hill E1 8JN
- Eastside Dental Practice E1 1BJ
- Salmon Lane Dental Care E14 7PQ
- UltraSmile E14 7JG
- Care Dental E1 2LP
- FAMILY DENTAL CARE E2 0QY
- Bupa Health and Dental Centre - Canary Wharf (Crossrail) E14 5AR
- Millharbour Dentistry E14 9NA
- Pure Smile Dental E2 0HU
- Crysanth Dental Care E2 9BU
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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.