Metro Community Health Centers - Staten island

Metro Community Health Centers - Staten island is a community health center dental clinic in Staten Island, NY, operated by Sunset Park Health Council, which runs 9 clinics in New York.

The health center is open about 47 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 scale belongs to Sunset Park Health Council, not to a national schedule, so the only reliable figure is the one they give you. 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 New York 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.

Size of the Dental Service

Sunset Park Health Council provided 147,076 dental visits and 47,089 dental patients in 2025, with the equivalent of 145.56 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

2324 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY 10303

The published number is 718-447-0200. 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 Sunset Park Health Council

Sunset Park Health Council operates 8 other clinics in 2 other communities in New York. A central scheduling line can often say which of them has the shortest wait, and it is not always the nearest one. Once your discount is assessed at one of its sites, the others normally honor it without a second application. 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

These are straight-line distances. Two clinics a mile apart can have very different waits, so it is worth calling both.

• CHCR 439 — Staten Island, about 1.6 miles away
• NEWARK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS, INC. — Newark, about 4.7 miles away
• Sun River Health Bay Street Health Center — Staten Island, about 4.9 miles away
• Newark Community Health Centers, Inc. dba Ironbound Medical and Dental Center — Newark, about 7.2 miles away