Tooth Injury Claim Payouts (2026): How Much Compensation for Broken or Lost Teeth?

Compensation for tooth injury claims typically ranges from around £1,350 to £47,000, depending on both the severity of damage and the number and position of teeth affected.

This guide explains how compensation is assessed for broken, cracked, damaged, or lost teeth, including the types of accident and negligence that can give rise to a claim and how both pain and suffering and financial losses, such as dental treatment expense, are calculated.

Payouts Table (2026) for Tooth Injury Claims

The above table describes the number of teeth damaged and their location (back or front teeth) together with the typical payout range you can expect to recover for the pain and suffering you experience. In addition – you can claim for financial loss and expense, such as the cost of dental work and lost income.

What Is a Tooth Injury Claim?

A claim for compensation for injury to your teeth, roots and gums as a result of an accident or due to some other form of negligence, such as dental negligence. Your solicitor must prove that someone other than yourself is legally-at-fault for your dental injury.

If your damaged teeth are as a result of a criminal injury then no negligence is required to make a compensation claim via the CICA. Instead – the police must confirm that a criminal act of violence occurred to cause your damaged teeth.

However, if a work colleague deliberately assaulted you then you may be able to claim compensation from your employer relying on the principle of vicarious liability.

Common Types of Tooth Injury Claim

Injury to your teeth can be caused in a great number of ways, including:

Workplace Accidents

Accidents at work can cause a variety of injuries, not least tooth injury. For example – if you fall from height and hit a concrete floor you will no doubt suffer many injuries.

Road Traffic Accidents

Road traffic accidents involve large forces – resulting in many different injuries. For example, in a car accident – a driver will often experience a bang to the head on the steering wheel often causing teeth to be knocked out.

Product Liability Claims

When the manufacturing process of food supplies in supermarkets and shops goes awry – foreign bodies (such as stones) may enter the food causing unsuspecting customers to suffer broken and cracked teeth.

Restaurant Food Injury Claims

Many people whilst eating in a restaurant might find a foreign body of bone that was not supposed to be in the food. This unexpected hard substance coupled with the strength of the jaw muscles – will very often lead to tooth damage or loss.

Slip, Trip and Fall Accidents

Gravity is a formidable foe. All too often when you slip / trip and fall – you you can bang your head and smash your teeth. For instance a trip due to defective pavement or a slip on a wet mopped supermarket floor.

Child Injury Claims

Accidents involving children can take many forms. However, some school accidents (such as falls off playground equipment with an improper surface underneath) can lead to smashed and injured teeth (sometimes including the need for life long dental treatment).

Dental Negligence Claims

If dental treatment is not performed correctly resulting in damaged teeth then you will be entitled to claim compensation for dental injury caused. For instance – imagine your dentist wrongly removes a healthy tooth instead of the decayed tooth identified in an x-ray.

What Compensation Can a Tooth Injury Claim Include?

You can claim two main types of compensation for tooth damage claims, including:

Pain and Suffering Caused by a Tooth Injury

Did you know that your tooth has one of the most sensitive nerves in your body, so the pain that can be caused from injured teeth can be immense.

You are entitled to claim compensation for this pain and suffering, which is known as general damages.

Your solicitor will instruct a dental expert to compile a medico-legal report describing not only the exact nature of your tooth injuries, but also a description as to what the future holds for ongoing pain and treatment.

This dental report will allow your lawyer to assess exactly how much compensation you would be entitled to claim for pain and suffering your tooth injury causes you to experience.

Dental Treatment Costs and Financial Loss

The cost of dental treatment can be immense and this treatment could be necessary for the rest of your life.

Therefore, you are entitled to claim compensation for such expenses as well as other financial losses. For instance – lost income, medical expenses, travel expenses to the hospital or GP. etc.

Tooth Injury Compensation Calculation Examples

Below we set out some calculated examples of the amounts of compensation your solicitor will claim for pain and suffering caused by injured, damaged, cracked or lost teeth.

Back Teeth – Loss or Damage Per Tooth

If you seriously damage or lose a back tooth (molar or premolar) then you can claim an amount per tooth lost calculated between £1,350 – £2,100.

Loss or Serious Damage to One Front Tooth

Front teeth (canines and incisors) are more visible than back teeth and so damage to them will have a far greater cosmetic effect than damage to your back teeth. As a result of this enhanced cosmetic effect – the amounts of compensation your solicitor can recover for injured front teeth is higher than that for your back.

Therefore, for one lost or seriously damaged front tooth you can expect a compensation settlement to be calculated between £2,700 – £4,900.

Loss or Damage to Two Front Teeth (Including Milk Teeth)

The pain and suffering for serious damage or loss of two front teeth (including milk teeth) will result in a tooth injury compensation claim payout of between £5,400 – £9,400.

Loss of Several Front Teeth

If you suffer seriously broken the loss of more than 2 front teeth then your tooth injury claim will be calculated between £10,700 – £14,000.

Most Serious Tooth Injury Claim

In the most serious of teeth injury claims – you will experience both a deterioration in the health of your teeth and have protracted dental treatment over a number of years with a great deal of pain. In addition – there may be jaw fractures associated with the injury and a loss of a number of teeth. For these most serious dental injury claims you may receive a compensation payout of up to £47,000.

Fractured Jaw Compensation Claim

In addition to teeth damage – you may have experienced a fractured jaw. If this fracture is serious then it would become a claim in its own right. Therefore – we recommend you see our jaw injury compensation payouts article for more details.

Tooth Injury Questions and Answers

Simply click the links below (under convenient headings) to see our answers to site visitors questions relating to lost and damaged teeth claims.

Defective Pavement And Highway Claims

Smashed Teeth Caused by a Trip on a Grid Cover

Motor Vehicle Accident Claims

Car And Truck Collision Causing Multiple Injuries and Cracked Teeth

Tooth Injury Whilst Eating

Tooth Damage Caused by a Stone in Food

Glass in Food Causing Tooth and Throat Injury

Restaurant Accident Causing Broken Teeth

School Accidents

Child Tooth Injury at School Claim

Hospital And Dental Negligence

Dental Negligence Causing Cracked Tooth and Crown Damage

Loss of Teeth Due to NHS Dental Negligence

Summary

In summary, this guide has set out how compensation is assessed for tooth injury claims, including the typical payout ranges for different types of damage and the factors that influence the level of award.

It explains how compensation takes into account both the pain and suffering caused by the injury and the financial impact, such as the cost of dental treatment and long‑term repair or replacement of damaged or lost teeth.

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