Affordable Dental Clinics in New York

Popular cities

Dental Clinics in New York

Brooklyn23 clinics Bronx22 clinics New York15 clinics Buffalo4 clinics Rochester3 clinics Staten Island3 clinics Albany2 clinics Albion2 clinics Auburn2 clinics Jamaica2 clinics Monroe2 clinics Newburgh2 clinics Port Chester2 clinics Pulaski2 clinics Schenectady2 clinics Syracuse2 clinics Utica2 clinics Warrensburg2 clinics Amenia1 clinic Arverne1 clinic Beacon1 clinic Brentwood1 clinic Brewster1 clinic Brockport1 clinic Canton1 clinic Cuba1 clinic Dunkirk1 clinic Ellenville1 clinic Elmira1 clinic Evans Mills1 clinic Flushing1 clinic Freeport1 clinic Glen Head1 clinic Goshen1 clinic Hauppauge1 clinic Hempstead1 clinic Homer1 clinic Houghton1 clinic Hyde Park1 clinic Jamestown1 clinic Kingston1 clinic Lowville1 clinic Mamaroneck1 clinic Middletown1 clinic Monsey1 clinic Moravia1 clinic Mount Vernon1 clinic New City1 clinic New Paltz1 clinic New Square1 clinic Ogdensburg1 clinic Ossining1 clinic Ovid1 clinic Peekskill1 clinic Penn Yan1 clinic Port Jervis1 clinic Poughkeepsie1 clinic Riverhead1 clinic Roosevelt1 clinic Rushville1 clinic Saugerties1 clinic Sleepy Hollow1 clinic Southampton1 clinic Spring Valley1 clinic Ticonderoga1 clinic Warsaw1 clinic Watertown1 clinic Watervliet1 clinic Woodridge1 clinic Yonkers1 clinic

Affordable Dental Coverage in New York

146reviewed dental clinics

70cities with a listing

55operating organizations

146with a published phone number

There are 146 dental clinics in New York, spread across 70 cities. Each operates a sliding fee discount based on household income and serves patients regardless of ability to pay.

The discount is based on household income and family size. Each health center sets its own fee schedule, so the amount you pay and whether it applies to a particular dental service must be confirmed directly with the clinic.

Coverage in New York is dispersed rather than clustered: 52 of the 70 cities listed hold a single clinic, about 74 percent of them. If the clinic nearest you cannot take a new patient, the next nearest is likely to be in a different town, so it is worth searching by ZIP code and radius rather than by city name.

Those 146 clinics belong to 55 separate health center organizations, an average of 2.7 sites each. The largest operators in New York are Sun River Health (17 sites across 17 towns), Sunset Park Health Council (9 sites across 3 towns), Open Door Family Medical Center (7 sites across 6 towns) and The Institute for Family Health (7 sites across 4 towns). Each organization sets its own sliding fee schedule, keeps its own waiting list and contracts with insurers separately, so being turned down by one tells you nothing about the next.

55 of the 146 New York clinics have no website — about 38 percent — so the phone is the only way to find out what they offer. Every clinic page carries the questions worth asking on that call.

Where the New York Listings Are Concentrated

These are the New York cities with the most reviewed dental clinics. If none of them is close to you, use the search above with your ZIP code rather than picking the nearest large city, because dental clinics do not follow city boundaries.

Brooklyn — 23 clinics
Bronx — 22 clinics
New York — 15 clinics
Buffalo — 4 clinics
Rochester — 3 clinics

Two things nobody can tell you in advance for New York: what your sliding fee discount would work out to — each health center writes its own schedule, so apply for the sliding fee discount — and whether New York Medicaid covers adult dental work, which is a state choice that changes with the budget. Children’s dental coverage under Medicaid is required in every state including this one; adult Medicaid dental coverage is not. Two routes are not listed here at all: dental school clinics and free and charitable clinics.

Care options

Dental Care Options in New York

Compare community health centers, sliding fee programs, Medicaid dental resources, dental schools and options for uninsured patients.

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Common questions

Finding Affordable Dental Care in New York

Are community health centers in New York free?

Rarely free, but the charge is scaled to what you earn. Health centers must run a sliding fee discount and see patients regardless of ability to pay, so the amount follows your household income and family size. Below a threshold you pay only a nominal charge. Each center sets its own bands, so ask that clinic what yours would be.

Can they do root canals and dentures, or would I be referred?

This is worth settling before treatment starts. Health centers commonly do extractions in-house and refer root canals to a private endodontist at full price, which changes the arithmetic completely. Dentures are often done on site, with laboratory costs billed on top of the discounted fee.

Do these clinics accept Medicaid?

Commonly, but participation runs plan by plan rather than program-wide. In most states the dental benefit is administered through separate managed care plans, so a clinic can be in network for one and out for another. Call with the dental plan name on your card. Adult dental coverage under New York Medicaid is set by the state and has changed more than once in most states; children’s coverage is required everywhere.

Several clinics share an operator. Does that help?

It can. A sliding fee determination made at one clinic in an organization commonly applies at its other sites, so the income paperwork may not need doing twice, and a central scheduling line can often say which of them has the shortest wait.