Affordable Dental Care in Pittsburgh, PA
This page lists 6 reviewed dental clinics in Pittsburgh, PA. They are run by 5 separate health center organizations, including East Liberty Family Health Care Center, Metro Family Practice, North Side Christian Health Center and Primary Care Health Services. Each sets its own income bands and keeps its own books, so prices and waits differ between them even in the same town.
The 6 clinics sit across 5 different Pittsburgh 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 Pennsylvania cities with listings are Mc Kees Rocks at about 3 miles (1 clinic), West Mifflin at about 9 miles (1 clinic) and Burgettstown at about 21 miles (1 clinic). 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 6 Pittsburgh locations has no website, so calling is the only way to find out what it offers. The other 5 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 Pittsburgh
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.
- East Liberty Family Health Care Center — 2 sites in Pittsburgh
- Metro Family Practice — 1 site in Pittsburgh
- North Side Christian Health Center — 1 site in Pittsburgh
- Primary Care Health Services — 1 site in Pittsburgh
- Squirrel Hill Health Center — 1 site in Pittsburgh
ZIP codes covered: 15206, 15208, 15212, 15217, 15218. If none of these is near you, the nearby cities listed below are the next place to look.
Before you travel across Pittsburgh, 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.


