Whats the cheapest way to get dentures, my dentist said £374, is that right?

I dont get something, when i was on benfits my dentist gave me a denture on the NHS for free as i wasnt working, i lost my denture recently so i phoned my dentist %26amp; they said for private it will cost £374 %26amp; they dont do it through the NHS, why is this when before a month ago i hadd mine done from the NHS through my local dentist, maybe because i wasnt working i dunno, do dentures vary? like good qualiuty or bad quality? or are they all fixed price for whatever denture, how much is it on the NHS? thanks.

Whats the cheapest way to get dentures, my dentist said £374, is that right?
Well deary it looks like you'll have to go on the dole if you want anything "free" from the NHS. This is one the many reasons why I hate the government not only as a hard working tax payer but as a free thinking individual I hate the fact that the scrounging deadbeats get everything paid for while the rest of us are busting our asses in jobs that most of us don't even like just so we can struggle to pay bills. There are people at my work who have to have 2 or 3 jobs to barely make ends meet and that's the end of my little rant.
Reply:you will only get them free if you arent working, otherwise you have to pay for them, same with everything else, prescriptions, glasses, all needs to be paid for when you are working
Reply:no
Reply:LOL! That's cheap. He wanted £500 from me to do a crown.





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Reply:Fined an independent dental technician and cut the price by more than half, I did
Reply:If thats a private price I would go for it mate! Sounds like a really good price, and if its private the quality should be of a good standard too.
Reply:Amy H, my thoughts exactly, it hits a raw nerve with me too that scroungers get everything for free that WE pay for, and we end up paying twice to support deadbeats, druggies, lazy idle idiots, illegal immigrants and so on. It just isn't fair, and we need to get rid of Brown and his cronies now.
Reply:If you got a denture for free (you didnt have to pay anything at all???) but lost it (very careless) I should imagine that the NHS having paid once will not pay again for what was your fault. If they quoted 374, that sounds very very cheap so I wouldnt bother questionning it but pay up. Dentures I think cost considerably more than that.
Reply:Seeing as dentures in the US are typically $1500 for a full set, your dentist's price is a bargain at half the price you'd pay here.
Reply:dentures on the NHS cost £194.00 unless you are on benefits.
Reply:If you had broken your denture or a tooth had come off you could have another one on the nhs or have it repaired.


But as you have lost your denture and it's quite new you are not entitled to a new one under the nhs and it's not the dentist who make the rules but the government and the local primary care trusts who part subsidise dental surgeries.


On the nhs a new denture will cost you £194, privately you could pay up to £500 upwards!