This guide is built only from the registry data behind those listings, which covers addresses, ZIP codes, provider type and registration dates. It does not rank anyone. What it can do is show how much routine care sits within a few blocks and which specialties would take you elsewhere.
What is listed in Country Club Plaza
The 57 listings fall across two ZIP codes, 64112 and 64111, and concentrate on a handful of streets. Nichols Rd has the largest group with 24. W 47th St has 18 once you include the 3 filed as W 47th Street, the same road recorded two ways. Main St has 6 and J C Nichols Pkwy has 3.
Forty two of the 57 are registered to individual practitioners and 15 to organizations, so individually registered dentists are the norm here. The names run from Amy L Westerberg, DDS to Brian S. Sutton Dds, PC. That distinction is about the registration rather than the size or quality of the practice.
Thirty three of the 57 were registered before 2010, and the oldest goes back to 2005. That is close to 60 percent holding the same registration at the same address for fifteen years or more.
- 57 practices listed, from 682 across Kansas City
- 46 general dentistry, 11 specialist or clinic listings
- 24 on Nichols Rd, 18 on W 47th St, 6 on Main St
- Two ZIP codes, 64112 and 64111
- 42 individual practitioners, 15 organizations
- 33 registered before 2010, oldest in 2005
How to choose between them
With 46 general dentistry listings in a compact area, routine care is very well covered and location will not separate the options for you. Use other criteria. Ask whether you see the same dentist each visit, how far ahead cleanings are booked, and how the practice handles a patient who calls in pain without an appointment.
Specialist coverage is much thinner. Three endodontists, three orthodontists, two periodontists and a single pediatric dentist means availability rather than choice will often decide where you go. Ask your general dentist which of them they refer to and whether that practice takes new patients directly.
None of the 57 have a website or opening hours recorded in the registry, so the phone is the tool. Confirm new patient status and network status on the first call rather than after you arrive.
If you need something the Plaza does not have
Two specialties are absent. Oral and maxillofacial surgery and prosthodontics both point elsewhere in Kansas City, about 3.6 miles away, where there are 34 oral surgery listings and 10 prosthodontic. For wisdom teeth, implants or complex restorative work, plan on that drive.
For general care the neighborhoods nearby are small but close. Westport has 13 practices at 0.6 miles and West Plaza has 12 at 0.5. North Hyde Park has 9 at 1.8 miles, Valentine 6 at 1 mile, Union Hill 5 at 1.9 and Plaza-Westport 3 at 0.4. Together they add fewer options than the Plaza already holds.
Insurance and paying
Network status moves the bill more than anything else. In network means the practice has agreed rates with your plan, so your share is calculated from a discounted fee. Out of network means no agreement, and you may owe the difference between the fee charged and what your plan considers allowable.
For treatment beyond an exam and cleaning, ask for a written estimate with the procedure codes listed and have your plan pre authorize it before work starts.
These listings come from a federal provider registry that records names, addresses, credentials and specialty codes. It holds no fees, no opening hours and no insurance networks, which is why a claimed listing matters: claiming is how a practice adds the details the registry cannot carry. None of the 57 here have been claimed yet.
If it is urgent
For a broken tooth, a lost crown or filling, or pain that is getting worse, call the general dentistry listings on Nichols Rd and W 47th St and ask directly for same day care. With 46 general listings packed into a small area your odds are good, but no hours are published, so it takes calls.
Some symptoms need an emergency room instead of a dentist. Go to the ER if swelling is spreading toward your eye or down into your neck, if you have trouble breathing or swallowing, if you have a fever alongside facial swelling, or if bleeding will not stop after an extraction or injury.
If nothing here can fit you in, search outward by distance at dentist directory.
Questions patients ask
How many dentists are on the Country Club Plaza?
There are 57 dental practices listed in Country Club Plaza, out of 682 across Kansas City. Forty six are general dentistry. The other 11 are 3 endodontists, 3 orthodontists, 2 periodontists, one pediatric dentist and 3 dental clinics, spread across ZIP codes 64112 and 64111.
Where is the nearest oral surgeon to the Plaza?
There is no oral and maxillofacial surgery listing in the neighborhood itself. The nearest concentration is elsewhere in Kansas City, about 3.6 miles away, where 34 practices are listed. Prosthodontics is the other gap, with 10 listings at roughly the same distance.
Which streets have the most Plaza dentists?
Nichols Rd has 24 of the 57 listings and W 47th St has 18, once the entries filed as W 47th Street are counted with it. Main St has 6 and J C Nichols Pkwy has 3. So two roads account for well over half the neighborhood's dental practices.