Not *that* experienced, but I needed a bit of dental work with my NHS dentist - a previous root filling kept developing an ulcer. She told me that they could do the work for something in excess of £400 (at the time) so I said I'd just keep some Amoxcyl by my side.
By the next annual check up it became too much and I asked again, and she told me that the procedure could be carried out on the NHS in the dental dept of a hospital but there was a 4 month waiting list which was why she'd recommended a colleague and this expensive route.
I got her to refer me to the NHS and had the work done for free and ditched her.
As far as I recall, crowns etc on the NHS are made of supposedly lesser substances, and may not be as white, as private ones. I have a couple of gold ones a long way back in my mouth which I think were probably NHS, well over 15 years ago, so they seem to last...
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