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Flexible Dental Finance Options at Whites Dental
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The Benefits of Dental Finance

Dental finance offers a lifeline during unforeseen emergencies, providing timely access to crucial treatments that may otherwise strain finances. In moments of dental distress, from sudden toothaches to unexpected injuries, having a financial plan in place can alleviate stress and ensure swift access to necessary care. With dental finance, individuals can promptly address emergencies without the burden of immediate out-of-pocket expenses and ultimately, with the right guidance be in a position to choose the perfect solution for the specific dental issue.

Moreover, dental finance extends beyond emergencies, offering a pathway to orthodontic solutions like braces. Straightening teeth isn’t just about aesthetics; it’s about oral health and confidence. By spreading the cost of braces over manageable instalments, dental finance makes orthodontic treatment accessible to more people, fostering healthier smiles and boosting self-esteem.

Teeth whitening, another popular dental procedure, becomes more attainable through finance options. A bright, radiant smile enhances one’s appearance and self-assurance, but professional whitening treatments can be costly. Dental finance breaks down these expenses into affordable payments, enabling individuals to achieve the dazzling smiles they desire without financial strain.

General orthodontic treatments, encompassing various corrective procedures, benefit significantly from finance options. Whether it’s correcting misaligned bites or addressing overcrowded teeth, these treatments are vital for long-term oral health and overall well-being. Dental finance ensures that individuals can undergo necessary orthodontic interventions without delay, preventing potential complications and discomfort.

What Interest rates for Dental Finance?

Credit for Dental Treatments

The interest rate you’ll pay to a dental finance company can vary depending on several factors including your credit score, the amount of financing you’re seeking, the terms of the loan, and the policies of the finance company itself. Typically, dental finance companies offer loans or financing options for dental procedures such as braces, implants, or cosmetic dentistry.

Whites Dental have a financing partner, able to offer their clients interest free options for 12 month loans and options for *longer term loans with a fixed interest rate starting at 9%

Additionally, if you have dental insurance, it’s worth exploring whether your insurance provider covers any portion of the cost of the procedure you’re seeking. This can help reduce the amount you need to finance and ultimately the amount of interest you’ll pay.

*correct as of the 14/02/2024

Private Dental Treatments

Approximate Costs and Details

Below is an approximate estimate of private dental treatment costs in the UK:

  • Fillings: £100 – £250 per filling, depending on the size of the decay and material used
  • Dental Crowns: £400 – £1,000 per crown, depending on the condition of the underlying tooth and material used for the crown (e.g. porcelain bonded metal, all ceramic, zirconia etc.).
  • Dental Braces: £1,500 – £5,000 or more for orthodontic treatments, depending on the amount of teeth movement required and the type of braces used (e.g., traditional metal braces, ceramic braces, clear aligners like Invisalign).
  • Instant laser whitening £500 There are different methods and a vast range in the quality of these treatments available, ask your dentist to ensure you are comparing like-for-like costs.

For more information on Private dental vs NHS dental treatments and costs.

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Remove the financial barrier to your treatment with finance.

Beyond the immediate advantages, dental finance promotes proactive dental care by removing financial barriers. Routine check-ups and preventive measures are fundamental for maintaining optimal oral health. With finance options available, individuals are more inclined to prioritise regular dental visits and preventive treatments, ultimately reducing the risk of costly dental issues in the future.

In essence, dental finance empowers individuals to take control of their oral health and access essential treatments when needed most. From emergency dental care to orthodontic solutions, the benefits extend far beyond monetary convenience, fostering healthier smiles, boosting confidence, and promoting proactive dental habits. By offering flexible payment plans, dental finance ensures that everyone can afford the smile they deserve, whether you are looking at spreading the cost of braces on finance, making your teeth whitening more affordable or need a significant programme of dentistry over a period of 12-18 months, financing it can allow you the treatment that is most suitable for you as opposed to the treatment you can afford to pay for in a single payment.

To find out more about the finance options, interest rates and terms available to you, Whites Dental offer their clients access to affordable payment plans for Dental treatments, this is through a partner finance company.

Take advantage of Whites Dental Free Consultation use the link provided here to gain professional insight and opinion about your treatment, the process and time and the opportunity to ask the questions you want answers to.

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Could Dental Finance harm my Credit Rating?

How to meet your credit agreement

While obtaining financing from a dental finance company, say for example – getting braces on finance may have some impact on your credit score, the effect is often minimal and temporary. As long as you make payments on time and manage the debt responsibly, it shouldn’t harm your credit rating in the long term, and it could even have positive effects if you establish a history of timely payments.

  1. Credit Check: When you apply for financing as is the case with most financing applications, they may perform a credit check as part of the application process. This type of credit inquiry, known as a hard inquiry, can have a temporary impact on your credit score. However, the impact is typically minor and short-lived, especially if you’re shopping around for rates within a short period, as multiple inquiries for the same type of loan are usually treated as a single inquiry.
  2. Repayment History: Your credit rating can be affected if you fail to make timely payments on the loan or if you default on the loan altogether. It’s crucial to make all payments on time to maintain or improve your credit score.
  3. Credit Utilisation: Taking on additional debt through financing could affect your credit utilisation ratio.

Could Dental Finance improve my Credit rating?

Credit agreements can improve your credit worthiness

It’s important to note that while taking on credit can help improve your credit score, it’s essential to manage that credit responsibly. This means making payments on time, keeping balances low relative to your credit limits, and avoiding taking on more credit than you can comfortably manage. By using credit responsibly, you can build a positive credit history and improve your credit rating over time.

  1. Building a Credit History: If you’re new to credit or have a limited credit history, taking on credit responsibly (paying off the balance/payment in full and on time each month) can help establish a positive credit history.
  2. Diversifying Credit Types: Lenders like to see a mix of different types of credit on your credit report, such as credit cards, installment loans (like auto loans or personal loans), and mortgages.
  3. Credit Utilisation: Keeping your credit utilisation low, ideally below 30%, shows lenders that you’re not overly reliant on credit and can manage your finances responsibly.
  4. Improving Payment History: By taking on credit and consistently making on-time payments, you can demonstrate responsible financial behavior, which can boost your credit score over time.

Whites Dental Do Not Offer Grants

Whites Dental make an effort to accommodate and facilitate affordable dentistry, providing an experienced team, friendly environment and advanced technology to serve your emergency, routine, cosmetic and orthodontic treatments.

Whilst we are able to accept payment via many dental insurance providers, and also provide access to 0% interest dental finance, we are not part of any Government backed grant or national health scheme. We are simply a private dentist trying to provide affordable dentistry in central London and accommodate flexible payments wherever possible. This includes all major schemes such as AXA, boots, denplan etc and all the major healthcare and dental insurance providers.

Advice on Funding your dental treatments

Our Waterloo dental Clinic offers experienced dental team provides dental treatments such as Invisalign braces, fixed braces, metal braces & ceramic braces for teeth straightening. They also provide related dental treatments such as composite bonding, teeth whitening, general and emergency dental treatments & hygienist services.

We are currently offering a special promotion to all our new patient applications at either our Marble Arch clinic or Waterloo clinic allowing them to access a range of services for just £120 (discounted by £100).

Our Marble Arch dental team serves North and South Kensington, Covent Garden, Belgravia, Paddington & Marylebone, also offering a full range of dental treatments such as orthodontic braces, cosmetic dentistry and dental hygiene.

Both our clinics provide interest free – 0% interest – finance payment plan options for all types of dentistry treatments. Please contact us to book a free initial consultation on a range of cosmetic dentistry, teeth alignment, braces and smile enhancements treatments. We often have weekday, evening and weekend appointments available and are happy to provide the advice required for funding your treatments via the dental finance provided to our clients, payment plans and existing health insurance.

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Privacy Overview

Whites Dental (“we”, “us” or “our”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

The practice respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy sets out how we will do this, taking into account data protection laws as well as our professional guidelines and requirements.

The data controller is Whites Dental; the Information Governance Lead is Deepa Chopra.

This Privacy Policy is available on the practice website at www.whitesdental.co.uk/privacy-policy, by email if you contact [email protected] or by calling the practice on 0204 527 3210.

This policy (together with our Cookies Policy) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (i.e. anonymous data).

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

You will be asked to provide personal information when joining the practice. The purpose of us processing this data is to provide optimum health care to you by, for example, recommending the most relevant treatment and ensuring your safety by taking your medical history.

The categories of data we process

  • Contact data (such as name, address, email address, telephone number) for the purposes of corresponding with you, for example, regarding your appointments and treatment.
  • Contact data (such as name, address, email address, telephone number) for the purposes of direct mail/email/text/marketing.
  • Special category data concerning health (including health records, medical history, medication, your doctor’s name and address, warning cards or bracelets, alcohol and drug use) for the purposes of the delivery of safe health care.
  • Treatment data (such as photos, moulds, X-rays, clinical findings) for the purposes of providing you with the best treatment.
  • Financial data (such as credit card details, bank account information, credit history, employment status) for the purposes of processing your payment for treatment(s).
  • Usage data (such as information about how you use our website, products and services) for the purposes of improving the way we provide our treatment and services.

The ways we collect information about you

We may collect and process the following data about you in operating the website and performing any of our services and treatment(s):

Direct
  • Information you give us (including information you give to our Clinical Lead, Specialists, Dentists, Hygienists and Orthodontic Therapists who are contracted to work for us). You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our website www.whitesdental.co.uk or by corresponding with us by phone, email, in person or otherwise.
  • Personal data is obtained when a patient joins the practice, when a patient is referred to the practice and when a patient subscribes to an email list.
Automatic
  • Information we automatically collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our website we may automatically collect the following information:
  • Technical information, including the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plugin types and versions, operating system and platform; and
  • Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouseovers), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
From third parties
  • Our Clinical Lead, Specialists, Dentists, Hygienists and Orthodontic Therapists are third parties working for us as contractors, however, they are contractually bound to us with regard to obligations of confidentiality in the same way as our employees and by professional obligations of confidentiality.
  • You may have been referred to us for treatment from Invisalign and we will therefore receive contact data, special category data concerning health, treatment data and/or financial data from them.
  • Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide.
  • We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, subcontractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
  • We use third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on activity, collect demographic data, analyze performance metrics, and collect and evaluate other information relating to our website and internet usage. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyse and provide us with data.

How we share data with third parties

We may share your Contact data, special category of data relating to health, Financial data, Treatment data and/or Usage data with selected third parties including:

  • Our Clinical Lead, Specialists, Dentists, Hygienists and Orthodontic Therapists.
  • Private health insurance companies (at your request if you are using private health insurance).
  • Credit reference agencies.
  • Equipment providers and laboratories such as Align Tech, Nimrodental, and Ashford Orthodontics.
  • Professional compliance organisations such as BDA.
  • Data storage and transfer platforms such as Microsoft Sharepoint and Dropbox.
  • Our payment platform Natwest.
  • Our practice management and CRM software providers Pearl.
  • Our live chat provider Quriobot.
  • Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others such as Facebook.
  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site such as Google.

This is a list of the main third parties with whom we share your personal data. If you would like a full list of third parties who process your data, and their contact details, please contact us using the details set out above.

We never pass your personal details to a third party unless we have a contract for them to process data on our behalf and will otherwise keep it confidential.

If we intend to refer a patient to another practitioner or to secondary care such as a hospital we will gain your consent before the referral is made and the personal data is shared.

The website may include links to third party websites, plugins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Data transferred outside the EU

  • Personal data is stored in the EU whether in digital or hard copy format.
  • Personal data is stored in the US in digital format when the data storage company is certified with the EU-US Privacy Shield.

Lawful basis for processing personal data

The lawful bases for processing personal data (including providing your personal data to third parties) are:

  • Consent of the data subject for data relating to treatment, care, our services, processing payment, credit checks, marketing and reviews, improving our services and improving our website (including using data analytics). This will also apply to the storage of personal data for these purposes.
  • Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject or to take steps to enter into a contract such as the provision of the services by us.
  • Processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation such as financial, tax and contractual laws.

For consent relating to children and people who may not have mental capacity to give consent, please contact us using the details above for a copy of our Safeguarding and Mental Capacity policies.

The reason for processing special category data such as patients’ health data is:

  • The processing is necessary for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine, for assessing the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or management of health or social care systems and services on the basis of Union or Member State law or a contract with a health professional; and
  • Data is processed by or under the responsibility of a professional subject to the obligation of professional secrecy under Union or Member State law or rules established by national competent bodies or by another person also subject to an obligation of secrecy under Union or Member State law or rules established by national competent bodies.

Purposes for processing personal data

We (and the third parties listed above) process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide you with our services.
  • To discuss relevant treatments.
  • To provide a safe working environment for staff, contractors and patients.
  • To check your employment and financial status for payment plans.
  • To process payments.
  • To keep you informed of our latest offers, other services we provide and general marketing activities.
  • To obtain reviews and feedback on your experience of our services.
  • To store our data.

If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us by using the details set out above.

Data retention

The retention period for special category data in patient records is a minimum of 10 years and may be longer for complex records in order to meet our legal requirements. The retention periods for other personal data is two years after it was last processed.

You will receive marketing emails until you unsubscribe, either by contacting us or by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. For details of other retention periods please contact us using the details set out above.

Your personal data rights

You have the following personal data rights:

  • The right to be informed.
  • The right of access to your personal data, which enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
  • The right to rectification of your personal data that you consider to be inaccurate. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
  • The right to erasure. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove your personal data (however clinical records must be retained for a certain time period).
  • The right to restrict processing. This gives you the option to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data e.g. if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy or you do not want us to erase it.
  • The right to data portability. If you request us to do so, we will provide to you, or a third party of your choice, your personal data in a commonly used, machine-readable format.
  • The right to object. This enables you to object to the processing of your personal data if you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms, however, in some cases, we may have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which can override your right to object.
  • The right to request confirmation as to whether or not your personal data is being processed.
  • The right to not have a decision made about you based solely on automated processing.

You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. If you request us to do so, we will no longer process your data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we will not be able to provide you with the services. You have the right to obtain a free copy of your patient records within one month of submitting a request.

If you are not a patient of the practice you have the right to withdraw consent for processing personal data, to have a free copy of it within one month of submitting a request, to correct errors in it or to ask us to delete it. You can also withdraw consent from communication methods such as telephone, email or text.

We have carried out a Privacy Impact Assessment and if you would like a copy please contact us using the details set out above.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, in the first instance, please contact us using the details set out above.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Further details of these rights can be obtained on the Information Commissioner’s website.

Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted through our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Comments, suggestions and complaints

Please contact the practice for a comment, suggestion or a complaint about your data processing at [email protected], or 0204 527 3210 or by writing to or visiting the practice. We take complaints very seriously.

If you are unhappy with our response or if you need any advice you should contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Their telephone number is 0303 123 1113, you can also find other contact options here. The ICO can investigate your claim and take action against anyone who’s misused personal data. You can also visit their website for information on how to make a data protection complaint.

Marketing by us

We offer individuals real choice and control. Our consent procedures put individuals in charge to build customer trust and engagement.

Our consent for marketing requires a positive opt-in, we don’t use pre-ticked boxes or any other method of default consent. We make it easy for people to withdraw consent, tell you how to and keep contemporaneous evidence of consent. Consent to marketing is never a precondition of a service.

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or if you have signed up via our contact form on the website and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Marketing by third parties

We do not share your data with third parties for marketing purposes.

Opting out

Where you opt-out of receiving these marketing messages, this means that you may not receive messages relating to your appointments or treatment so please let us know by using the details set out above if you would like to continue to receive messages about your appointments and treatment.