Dental care is marginal on the NHS now - it is almost impossible to get through the “free” system.
It is quite easy to get top rate Dental care privately. Price check: I had a tooth whipped out for about 120 dollars? I imagine it would have been cheaper in America?
I had the crowns on my upper incisors replaced a couple of years ago for $1,300 a tooth.
Pay-as-you-go dental care is probbably more expensive in the U.S. because most employers provide dental as well as health insurance. (So the dentists increase their prices, LOL)
Anyone who’s on Medicaid (ACCHS in AZ) also gets dental coverage. Most dental plans cover a big chunk of orthodontic work, too.
If you look at kids in U.S. middle schools and high schools, most of them wear braces at one time or another.
Hard to say. Under normal American dental care (for an adult), all efforts are made to save the tooth. Removing the adult tooth is an action of "last resort".
Did your $120 dollars include replacement with an artificial tooth or partial denture?