Check-ups & hygiene
A full examination, soft-tissue and gum check with a BPE score, X-rays where they are justified, and a written plan before anything is booked. Recall set clinically, usually six to twelve months.
NHS £27.90 · private from £62Accepting new NHS and private patients
A dentist on Kingsgate Street since 1978
NHS and private care for families across Winchester. Every price we charge is on this website, every clinician's GDC number is next to their name, and if something hurts today we keep slots back for you.
In pain today?
We hold emergency slots back every weekday morning and take the first calls from 08:00. You do not have to be one of our patients. Out of hours, NHS 111 will direct you to the urgent dental service for Hampshire.
Published in full, as the GDC expects
What it costs, both ways
Most people arrive not knowing whether they are an NHS patient or a private one, and the answer changes the number a lot. Here is both, for the things we do most. The full index is on the treatments page.
TreatmentNHS bandPrivate from
Examination & treatment planIncluding any X-rays, scale and polish, and fluoride varnish
£27.90 Band 1
£62 New patient £86
Hygienist appointment30 minutes with the hygienist or therapist
£27.90 If clinically needed
£68 45 min £92
White fillingComposite, per tooth, shade matched
£76.60 Band 2
£145 to £290
Root canal treatmentFront tooth to molar; molars take two visits
£76.60 Band 2
£395 to £780
CrownCeramic or bonded, laboratory made
£332.10 Band 3
£780 to £1,150
Single implantPlacement, abutment and crown; assessed first
— Not on the NHS
£2,450 0% finance
One charge per course of treatment, not per item. If you need a filling and an extraction in the same course, that is one Band 2 charge of £76.60 — not two. NHS charges are set by the government and are the same at every practice in England; the 2026/27 figures apply from 1 April. Private fees are ours and are held for twelve months from the date on your written plan.
Everything under one roof
What we treat
Fillings & restorations
Tooth-coloured composite as standard; amalgam still available on the NHS at the back where it is the better material. We will tell you which we would use on our own teeth and why.
NHS £76.60 · private from £145Crowns, bridges & implants
Digital intra-oral scanning rather than impression trays wherever the case allows. Implants are placed here and restored here — nothing is referred out and then referred back.
NHS £332.10 · private from £780Root canal treatment
Under rubber dam, with rotary instruments and apex location. Molars are booked as two appointments because rushing the second one is how root treatments fail.
NHS £76.60 · private from £395Orthodontics & clear aligners
Adult aligner treatment assessed with a scan and a written estimate of the number of aligners before you commit. Retainers are included for the first year — teeth move back, and we would rather say so now.
Private from £1,850Emergencies
Toothache, a lost crown, a broken front tooth, facial swelling. Swelling that is spreading, or anything affecting your breathing or swallowing, is A&E — not us — and we will tell you so on the phone.
NHS £27.90 · private £95Check any of us on the register
Who will be treating you
Every dentist, hygienist and therapist in the UK holds a General Dental Council registration number, and anyone can look it up on the GDC register in about thirty seconds. Ours are below. We think you should check them here and everywhere else.
Priya Raghunathan
BDS (Sheffield) MFDS RCS(Ed)Principal dentist · at Kingsgate since 2009
Took the practice on from Alan Whitcombe in 2009 and has placed implants here since 2013. Sees the nervous list on Tuesday and Thursday mornings because those are the quietest hours in the building.
- Implants
- Nervous patients
- Restorative
- GDC number
- 104882
Tom Ackroyd
BDS (Birmingham) PgCert EndoAssociate dentist · at Kingsgate since 2019
Does most of the root treatment here, under rubber dam, and takes referrals from two other Winchester practices for molar endodontics. Runs the Saturday morning list once a month.
- Endodontics
- Crowns & bridges
- GDC number
- 251440
Aoife Brennan
Dip Dental Hygiene & TherapyHygienist & therapist · at Kingsgate since 2016
Sees patients directly — you do not need a dentist's appointment first. Runs the periodontal recall programme and will tell you plainly if your gums are the reason a tooth is loose.
- Periodontal care
- Direct access
- Children
- GDC number
- 176305
Registered with the Care Quality Commission, provider ID 1-2049183746. Inspected March 2025. Our full inspection report and complaints procedure are on the practice page.
If it has been a while
What actually happens at a first appointment
Nobody here is going to raise an eyebrow at how long it has been. A first appointment is forty minutes, most of it talking, and you will not be talked into anything on the day.
1
We talk first, sitting up
Before the chair goes back: what is bothering you, what you are worried about, and whether there is anything that has gone badly for you at a dentist before. If you want to stop at any point, we agree a signal.
2
The examination
Teeth, gums with a BPE score, and a soft-tissue and oral cancer check that takes ninety seconds and is the most important part. X-rays only if they will change what we do.
3
You see your own chart
The screen turns round. We go through what is there quadrant by quadrant, in plain words, including the things that are fine — which is usually most of it.
4
A written plan and a price
Options, what each costs under both systems, what happens if you do nothing, and what we would do in your position. You take it away. Nothing is booked on the day unless you are in pain.
The building
Four surgeries, one decontamination room
From our patients
What people say afterwards
★★★★★
“I had not been to a dentist in eleven years and I was dreading the lecture. There wasn't one. Priya went through the chart with me, told me two things needed doing and the rest was fine, and I left with it written down.”
★★★★★
“Broke a front tooth on the Saturday of the half marathon. They saw me at half eight on the Monday, bonded it back the same morning, and charged me the emergency price on the website — not a penny more.”
★★★★★
“Aoife saw my son directly without us needing a dentist appointment first, which nobody had told us was possible. He is nine and now brushes without being asked, which I consider a clinical miracle.”
Taking new patients on both lists
Book an examination
Ring the practice between 08:00 and 17:00, or send the form and we will call you back the same working day. If you are in pain, ring — do not use the form.