Affordable Dental Clinics in Utah

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Dental Clinics in Utah

Brigham City2 clinics Salt Lake City2 clinics West Valley City2 clinics Bicknell1 clinic Blanding1 clinic Clearfield1 clinic Enterprise1 clinic Garden City1 clinic Logan1 clinic Monticello1 clinic Monument Valley1 clinic Ogden1 clinic Provo1 clinic Richfield1 clinic Saint George1 clinic Taylorsville1 clinic Tremonton1 clinic Vernal1 clinic West Jordan1 clinic

Affordable Dental Coverage in Utah

22reviewed dental clinics

19cities with a listing

11operating organizations

22with a published phone number

There are 22 dental clinics in Utah, spread across 19 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 Utah is dispersed rather than clustered: 16 of the 19 cities listed hold a single clinic, about 84 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 22 clinics belong to 11 separate health center organizations, an average of 2 sites each. The largest operators in Utah are Community Health Centers (6 sites across 5 towns), Health West (3 sites across 3 towns), Utah Navajo Health System (3 sites across 3 towns) and Midtown Community Health Center (2 sites across 2 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.

8 of the 22 Utah clinics have no website — about 36 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 Utah Listings Are Concentrated

These are the Utah 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.

Brigham City — 2 clinics
Salt Lake City — 2 clinics
West Valley City — 2 clinics
Bicknell — 1 clinic
Blanding — 1 clinic

Two things nobody can tell you in advance for Utah: 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 Utah 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 Utah

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

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Worth reading first

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How to apply for the sliding fee discountWhat to bring, and how the income bands are worked out.

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What dental work costs when you are paying cashRanges for the common treatments, and what drives them.

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Emergency dental care when you cannot payWhich door to use, and the signs that mean an emergency room now.

How to apply for the sliding fee discountWhat to bring, and how the income bands are worked out.

Common questions

Finding Affordable Dental Care in Utah

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 Utah Medicaid is set by the state and has changed more than once in most states; children’s coverage is required everywhere.

Which clinic should I call first?

Not automatically the nearest. Waits differ substantially between sites, and dental hours are often shorter than the health center hours posted on the door. Calling two or three and comparing their next dental appointment is usually faster than traveling to the closest.

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.

Is a dental school cheaper than a health center?

For a large amount of work, often yes, but a school screens you first, may decline your case, and takes months rather than weeks. A health center discounts by your income and can usually see you sooner. Our guide to dental school clinics compares them.