Affordable Dental Care in Silver Spring, MD
This page lists 2 reviewed dental clinics in Silver Spring, MD. They are run by 2 separate health center organizations — Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care and The Community Clinic. Each sets its own income bands and keeps its own books, so prices and waits differ between them even in the same town.
The 2 clinics sit across 2 different Silver Spring ZIP codes. Distance on a map is a poor guide across a city of this shape. Searching on your ZIP code, and checking the bus route before booking, saves the wasted trip.
The nearest other Maryland cities with listings are Hyattsville at about 3 miles (2 clinics), Takoma Park at about 3 miles (1 clinic), College Park at about 5 miles (1 clinic), Greenbelt at about 8 miles (2 clinics) and Gaithersburg at about 12 miles (1 clinic). Measured straight-line rather than by road. Clinics do not follow city boundaries and neither do waiting lists, so the town next door is often the faster appointment.
1 of the 2 Silver Spring locations has no website, so calling is the only way to find out what it offers. The other one carries a link 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 Silver Spring
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.
- Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care — 1 site in Silver Spring
- The Community Clinic — 1 site in Silver Spring
ZIP codes covered: 20901, 20902. If none of these is near you, the nearby cities listed below are the next place to look.
Before you travel across Silver Spring, 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.
