Affordable Dental Care in Shreveport, LA
This page lists 3 reviewed dental clinics in Shreveport, LA. They are run by 2 separate health center organizations — Council for the Advancement of Social Services and Education and David Raines Community Health Center. Separate organizations mean separate waiting lists and separate fee scales, so a no from one is not a no from the others. It is worth working through them.
The 3 clinics sit across 2 different Shreveport ZIP codes. Check the nearest by address rather than by name, and search on your own ZIP code if you depend on public transport — a clinic a few miles away on the map can be an hour away on a bus.
The nearest other Louisiana cities with listings are Bossier City at about 10 miles (2 clinics), Ringgold at about 30 miles (1 clinic) and Natchitoches at about 59 miles (1 clinic). Straight-line from the city center, so road distance will be longer. Even so, the nearby lists are worth working through, because waits vary more than distance does.
1 of the 3 Shreveport locations has no website, so calling is the only way to find out what it offers. The other 2 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 Shreveport
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.
- Council for the Advancement of Social Services and Education — 2 sites in Shreveport
- David Raines Community Health Center — 1 site in Shreveport
ZIP codes covered: 71107, 71118. If none of these is near you, the nearby cities listed below are the next place to look.
Before you travel across Shreveport, 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.
