Affordable Dental Care in Denver, CO
This page lists 12 reviewed dental clinics in Denver, CO. They are run by 6 separate health center organizations, including Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Clinica Campesina/Family Health Services, Inner City Health Center and La Clinica Tepeyac. Because they are independent of each other, the assessment you get at one does not carry to the next, and neither does its waiting list. Call more than one.
The 12 clinics sit across 8 different Denver ZIP codes. Which one is actually closest depends on where in the city you are, so search by ZIP rather than picking from the list. Travel time matters more than distance if you are on a bus route.
The nearest other Colorado cities with listings are Englewood at about 7 miles (1 clinic), Aurora at about 7 miles (1 clinic) and Wheat Ridge at about 11 miles (2 clinics). Those are straight-line distances from the city center, not road miles. Waits differ sharply between neighboring towns, so widening the search is usually worth the extra call — particularly for a specific treatment rather than a check-up.
4 of the 12 Denver locations have no website, so calling is the only way to find out what they offer. The other 8 carry links on the listing, though an organization-wide website often will not say which of its sites runs a dental clinic.
Who runs the dental clinics in Denver
Each of these is a separate organization with its own sliding fee schedule, its own waiting list and its own insurance contracts. Call them as separate options, not as one.
- Denver Health and Hospital Authority — 7 sites in Denver
- Clinica Campesina/Family Health Services — 1 site in Denver
- Inner City Health Center — 1 site in Denver
- La Clinica Tepeyac — 1 site in Denver
- Metro Community Provider Network — 1 site in Denver
- The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless — 1 site in Denver
ZIP codes covered: 80204, 80205, 80216, 80219, 80221, 80224, 80230, 80239. If none of these is near you, the nearby cities listed below are the next place to look.
Before you travel across Denver, settle the things these listings cannot: what to ask on the phone, how the sliding fee discount is applied for, and which door to use when it is urgent and money is short. If you think what you have might be an emergency, go to an emergency room rather than onto a dental waiting list; the price of that visit is not the thing to weigh in that moment.
