Affordable Dental Coverage in District of Columbia

25reviewed dental clinics
1city with a listing
6operating organizations
25with a published phone number

There are 25 dental clinics in District of Columbia, spread across 1 city. Each operates a sliding fee discount based on household income and serves patients regardless of ability to pay.

The discount is based on household income and family size. Each health center sets its own fee schedule, so the amount you pay and whether it applies to a particular dental service must be confirmed directly with the clinic.

Those 25 clinics belong to 6 separate health center organizations, an average of 4.2 sites each. The largest operators in District of Columbia are Unity Health Care (14 sites across 1 town), Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care (4 sites across 1 town), Bread for the City (2 sites across 1 town) and Community of Hope (2 sites across 1 town). Each organization sets its own sliding fee schedule, keeps its own waiting list and contracts with insurers separately, so being turned down by one tells you nothing about the next.

3 of the 25 District of Columbia clinics have no website — about 12 percent — so the phone is the only way to find out what they offer. Every clinic page carries the questions worth asking on that call.

Where the District of Columbia Listings Are Concentrated

These are the District of Columbia cities with the most reviewed dental clinics. If none of them is close to you, use the search above with your ZIP code rather than picking the nearest large city, because dental clinics do not follow city boundaries.

Two things nobody can tell you in advance for District of Columbia: what your sliding fee discount would work out to — each health center writes its own schedule, so apply for the sliding fee discount — and whether District of Columbia Medicaid covers adult dental work, which is a state choice that changes with the budget. Children’s dental coverage under Medicaid is required in every state including this one; adult Medicaid dental coverage is not. Two routes are not listed here at all: dental school clinics and free and charitable clinics.