Affordable Dental Care in Lakewood, NJ
This page lists 2 reviewed dental clinics in Lakewood, NJ. They are run by 2 separate health center organizations — Lakewood Resource & Referral Center and Ocean Health Initiatives. 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.
Both clinics fall within a single Lakewood ZIP code, so they are close together. If neither can see you, the nearby cities below are the next place to look rather than another part of town.
The nearest other New Jersey cities with listings are Toms River at about 10 miles (1 clinic), Asbury Park at about 14 miles (1 clinic), Long Branch at about 18 miles (1 clinic), Pemberton at about 24 miles (1 clinic) and Perth Amboy at about 28 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 2 Lakewood 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 Lakewood
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.
- Lakewood Resource & Referral Center — 1 site in Lakewood
- Ocean Health Initiatives — 1 site in Lakewood
Before you travel across Lakewood, 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.
