BRITONS have taken out personal loans worth an estimated £60.2m to fund private dental treatment.
An analysis showed around 6,900 loans have been taken out to fund or partially fund dental surgery in the UK since the beginning of 2007.
Of these, some 2,450 were solely for dental treatment.
The average size of a personal loan used entirely for dental treatment is £6,492, according to the breakdown from Sainsbury’s Finance.
It estimated that, in 2007, £3.3m worth of loans were taken to wholly fund dental treatment, increasing to £9.4m in 2008.
In the first three months of this year, an estimated £3.2m worth of loans were taken out for dental treatment.
