Community Health Center

MUSKEGON FAMILY CARE

2201 S Getty St, Muskegon, MI 49444-1207

MUSKEGON FAMILY CARE is a community health center dental clinic in Muskegon, MI, operated by Mgh Family Health Center.

The health center is open about 63 hours a week, though dental sessions are usually a subset of that.

Clinic Details

Address2201 S Getty St, Muskegon, MI 49444
Phone231-739-9315
Operated byMgh Family Health Center
ProgramHealth Center Program (federally funded)
Site scheduleFull-Time
Operating calendarYear-Round

Dental Services

Service and coverage information recorded for this clinic includes:

  • Cleanings
  • Dentures
  • Emergency dental care
  • Extractions
  • Fillings
  • Medicaid
  • Root canal treatment
  • Walk-in or same-day appointments

Treatments offered and insurance accepted change over time, and services not listed here may still be available. Contact the clinic to confirm what is currently offered.

Costs and Coverage

What you pay here is worked out from your household income and family size, not read off a price list. Where the thresholds fall is decided by Mgh Family Health Center, so what a friend paid elsewhere is not a guide. 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.

This clinic has a Medicaid billing registration on file, which is a good sign but not a guarantee for your particular plan. Adult dental coverage under Michigan 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 dental hygiene, for cleanings and preventive care and prosthodontics, for dentures, crowns, and bridges 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

Mgh Family Health Center provided 11,704 dental visits and 4,474 dental patients in 2025, with the equivalent of 14.64 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.

Planning Your Visit

2201 S Getty St, Muskegon, MI 49444

The published number is 231-739-9315. 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, and what to bring for the sliding fee application.

Common Questions

Is anything done for anxiety?

Ask, because the answer changes what the visit costs. Talking it through, longer appointments and numbing gel before the injection are usually free; sedation is a billed extra and does not always fall inside the discount. Our guide to dental anxiety and what it costs covers what to ask for.

Is treatment free?

Usually not, though it can come close. Clinics like this one discount by household income and are required to see patients regardless of ability to pay, but a charge normally applies and the lowest band is a nominal fee rather than nothing. Mgh Family Health Center sets its own scale.

What if I need to be seen urgently?

If you think it might be an emergency, go to an emergency room rather than trying to book here — that is the one situation where the price of the visit is not the thing to weigh. Otherwise, call early in the day and say you are in pain, because it routes the call differently; some health centers hold same-day slots for exactly that and do not advertise them.

Is there help if I do not speak English?

Health centers are required to provide language assistance and most have interpreting available, in person or by phone. Say which language you need when you book rather than on the day, so an interpreter can be arranged for the appointment.

Can I get an itemized receipt?

Yes, and ask for one. You need it to claim from an HSA or FSA, to apply to a charitable program, and to get a second opinion on the same plan of work. A receipt that says only a total is not much use for any of those.

Is this a federally funded clinic?

Yes, this site operates under the federal Health Center Program, which is what obliges it to discount by household income and to see patients regardless of ability to pay. It does not make the care free, and it does not decide which treatments are offered here.

Other Clinics Operated by Mgh Family Health Center

Mgh Family Health Center has no other locations, so there is nowhere else within the same organization to ask. Work down the nearby clinics below if this one is full.

Other Dental Clinics Nearby

Distances are as the crow flies. Wait times are set clinic by clinic, so ask each one rather than assuming.

Confirmed Payment Options

Income-Based FeesMedicaidEmergency Dental

Confirmed Dental Services

Dental CleaningDenturesEmergency DentalFillingsRoot CanalTooth Extraction

Call MUSKEGON FAMILY CARE

Confirm current dental services, appointment availability, costs and accepted insurance directly with the clinic.

231-739-9315

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