Only very recently have I had to start paying for medical treatments. I'm a recently graduated 21 yr old - a year ago as a full time student aged 20 I paid for nada.
For about 9 years I didn't brush my teeth or look after them at all. This summer, in the middle of my finals in fact, it caught up with me and I started having terrible tooth pain and treatment.
First off: £400 for an emergancy part 1 root canal at a private dentist who saw me the next day. I could have gone for free to a hospital and waited but my mum was happy to pay up and given that it affected my exams, we just wanted it done with minimal hassle.
Since then I've been in pretty much every week to my local NHS dentist. Crowns, root canals, hygeinist check ups, fillings, the whole shebang. They charge a maximum of £200 a month for everything. So, for example, I could have 5 appointments in that time doing any type of work and I'd pay £200. I have paid £200. Oh, but I'm getting it back, because I've recently made the giddy transition from student to jobseeker and jobseekers don't pay for dental treatment. So I'm going to the jobcentre with the receipts from the practice.
I'm also going to pick up my backdated £50 pw that all jobseekers get, and see about having at least a month or two of my £450 / month rent covered by housing benefit, because jobseekers get help paying their rent if they can't cover it themselves.
That's all. :)