DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER

DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER is a community health center dental clinic in Roxbury, MA, operated by Dimock Community Health Center, which runs 2 clinics in Massachusetts.

The health center is open about 58 hours a week, though dental sessions are usually a subset of that.

Clinic Details

Dental Services

No service list has been published for this clinic, so the range here is worth asking about directly rather than assuming. The routine work — examinations, cleanings, X-rays, fillings, extractions — is normally available. Whether root canals, dentures and surgery are done on site is what differs from clinic to clinic.

Costs and Coverage

What you pay here is worked out from your household income and family size, not read off a price list. The bands are set by Dimock Community Health Center rather than nationally, which is why prices differ between two clinics on the same scale. Ask for your band in writing before agreeing to a course of treatment. Our guide to applying for the discount lists the documents to bring.

No Medicaid registration has been recorded for this clinic, which is not the same as Medicaid being refused. Adult dental coverage under Massachusetts Medicaid is decided at state level and has changed more than once in most states; children’s dental coverage is required everywhere. The Medicaid dental page covers how to check yours.

Dental Providers at This Clinic

Alongside general dentistry, providers registered in pediatric dentistry, for children, dental hygiene, for cleanings and preventive care, and endodontics, for root canal treatment practice at this address. That is not the same as the clinic taking new patients for those treatments, or the discount covering them, so name the treatment when you call.

Size of the Dental Service

Dimock Community Health Center provided 10,483 dental visits and 3,178 dental patients in 2025, with the equivalent of 17.9 full-time dental staff. This indicates an established dental service operating regular sessions, although appointment availability still varies by clinic and time of year.

Figures describe the operating organization as a whole, across all of its clinics.

Planning Your Visit

45 Dimock St, Roxbury, MA 02119

The published number is 617-442-8800. Where an organization runs several sites this often lands at a central desk, so name the clinic and say the appointment is dental.

The call is worth making for: the dental hours, and which days appointments run, whether new dental patients are being taken, and the current wait, what a first visit costs, before and after any discount, whether your insurance or Medicaid dental plan is accepted, by plan name, and what to bring for the sliding fee application.

Common Questions

Other Clinics Operated by Dimock Community Health Center

Dimock Community Health Center operates one other clinic elsewhere in Massachusetts. A central scheduling line can often say which of them has the shortest wait, and it is not always the nearest one. The income assessment usually transfers between sites in the same organization, which saves repeating the paperwork. What is treated at one site is no guide to another, so confirm with the clinic you actually intend to visit.

Other Dental Clinics Nearby

Straight-line distances. The nearest clinic is not reliably the one that can see you soonest, so try a couple.

• DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — Roxbury, at the same address
• Whittier Engagement Center — Roxbury Crossing, less than a mile away
• Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center — Dorchester, about 1.4 miles away
• Pine Street Inn at the Shattuck — Jamaica Plain, about 1.5 miles away