Affordable Dental Care in Cleveland, OH
This page lists 12 reviewed dental clinics in Cleveland, OH. They are run by 4 separate health center organizations — Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services, Care Alliance Health Center, Metrohealth System, the and Neighborhood Health Care. Each sets its own income bands and keeps its own books, so prices and waits differ between them even in the same town.
The 12 clinics sit across 9 different Cleveland ZIP codes. Distance on a map is a poor guide across a city of this shape. Searching on your ZIP code, and checking the bus route before booking, saves the wasted trip.
The nearest other Ohio cities with listings are Medina at about 24 miles (1 clinic), Kent at about 26 miles (1 clinic) and Lorain at about 27 miles (2 clinics). Measured straight-line rather than by road. Clinics do not follow city boundaries and neither do waiting lists, so the town next door is often the faster appointment.
1 of the 12 Cleveland locations has no website, so calling is the only way to find out what it offers. The other 11 carry links 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 Cleveland
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.
- Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services — 5 sites in Cleveland
- Care Alliance Health Center — 3 sites in Cleveland
- Metrohealth System, the — 2 sites in Cleveland
- Neighborhood Health Care — 2 sites in Cleveland
ZIP codes covered: 44102, 44103, 44104, 44105, 44106, 44109, 44110, 44114, 44115. If none of these is near you, the nearby cities listed below are the next place to look.
Before you travel across Cleveland, 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.
