Almost every one of those listings is general dentistry, so specialist care means a trip. This guide covers what the registry records, how to choose a practice, where the specialties are, and what to check on cost and urgent care.
Forty one listings, nearly all general
Thirty nine of the 41 listings are general dentistry and the other two are dental clinics. No specialist practice of any kind is listed in the neighborhood, which is unusual for an area with this many practices and is the single most important thing to know before you register somewhere.
The addresses cluster on a few streets. Hawthorne St E has 14 listings and Hawthorne Ave E has 10. Arcade St has 5 with a further 3 recorded as Arcade Street, and Payne Ave has 4. The rest are spread across the three ZIP codes.
Thirty five of the listings are registered to individual practitioners and only 6 to organizations. Twenty nine of the 41 were registered before 2010, a high proportion, and the oldest registration in the neighborhood dates to 2005.
- 41 practices, 39 of them general dentistry
- No specialist practices listed in the neighborhood
- Three ZIP codes: 55106, 55130 and 55101
- 35 individual practitioners, 6 organizations
- 29 registered before 2010
Choosing when everything here is general dentistry
The practice you register with will be doing the coordinating for you, so the first question is what they treat in house. Some general dentists carry out simple extractions, root canals and gum treatment themselves. In a neighborhood with no specialist listings at all, that difference decides how often you will be driving elsewhere.
The second question is who they refer to, and whether that practice takes your insurance. After that, the ordinary comparisons apply: how far ahead routine appointments book, whether the same dentist sees you each visit, what languages the front desk speaks, and how they handle a call from someone in pain. Most of these are individual listings, which often means small practices.
Six specialties, all about three miles away
Every specialty the registry tracks is missing from Payne - Phalen, and in each case the nearest listings are elsewhere in Saint Paul, roughly 3.0 miles away. Pediatric dentistry has 23 practices there, periodontics 14, oral and maxillofacial surgery 13, orthodontics 9, and endodontics and prosthodontics 5 each. The trip is the same length whichever specialty you need.
For general care outside the neighborhood, Downtown is 2.6 miles away with 48 listed practices, Greater East Side is 2.0 miles away with 28 and West Side has 27 at 3.2 miles. Southeast has 14 at 2.9 miles, Dayton's Bluff has 5 at 1.1 miles and Frogtown has 3 at 3.0 miles.
Paying, and what these listings do not include
The registry holds addresses and registration details and nothing about money. It carries no fees, no opening hours and no insurance information, and none of the 41 Payne - Phalen practices has claimed its listing or published a website or hours through it. Claimed listings are how a practice adds those details, which is why they matter when you are comparing.
So ask on the phone. Confirm the practice is in network for your exact plan rather than for your insurer as a whole, since one company usually runs several networks at different rates. Ask for a written estimate before treatment, showing procedure codes, the fee, the expected plan payment and your share. Ask what a checkup, X-rays and a cleaning cost outright if you have no plan.
- Confirm the network for your specific plan
- Ask for a written estimate before treatment
- Ask the cash price if you are paying yourself
- Check whether the specialist you are referred to takes your plan
If you need care today
For sudden pain, call early and ask for an emergency appointment rather than the next routine slot. With 24 listings between Hawthorne St E and Hawthorne Ave E, and 48 more practices 2.6 miles away in Downtown, a few calls usually finds someone. To search by distance from where you are rather than by neighborhood, use dentist directory.
Some symptoms need an emergency room rather than a dental office. Go straight there if swelling is spreading toward your eye or down into your neck, if you are struggling to breathe or swallow, if you have a fever with facial swelling, or if bleeding will not stop after an extraction. A knocked out adult tooth should be held by the crown, kept in milk or saliva, and seen within the hour.
Questions patients ask
How many dentists are in Payne - Phalen?
Forty one dental practices are listed in Payne - Phalen, across ZIP codes 55106, 55130 and 55101. Thirty nine are general dentistry and two are dental clinics. There are no specialist listings in the neighborhood at all. Saint Paul as a whole has 408 listed practices.
Where is the nearest orthodontist to Payne - Phalen?
There is no orthodontics listing in the neighborhood. The nearest are elsewhere in Saint Paul, about 3.0 miles away, where nine orthodontics practices are recorded. Pediatric dentistry, periodontics, oral surgery, endodontics and prosthodontics are all at roughly the same distance, so any referral means a similar journey.
Can I get a root canal in Payne - Phalen?
Possibly, but not from a specialist. No endodontics practice is listed here, and the nearest five are about 3.0 miles away elsewhere in Saint Paul. Many general dentists treat straightforward root canals themselves, so ask your own practice what they handle before assuming you need a referral.