What is striking about Westgate is not the number but the shape of it. Everything below comes from the registry: counts, categories, streets, ownership and registration years.
What is listed in Westgate
Every listing here is either general dentistry or a dental clinic. 33 practices list general dentistry and 7 are recorded as dental clinics. There is no orthodontist, pediatric dentist, endodontist, periodontist, oral surgeon or prosthodontist with a Westgate address.
The addresses spread across several streets rather than one strip. 27th St S has 12 listings, Gateway Dr S has 7, 9th Ave S and 13th Ave S have 4 each and 32nd St S has 3. The remainder sit on smaller streets in the same ZIP code.
Ownership runs 24 individual practitioners to 15 organizations. A listing in a dentist's own name usually means that dentist is the one treating you, while organization listings can be groups or companies, sometimes with several dentists sharing a practice.
20 of the 39 were registered before 2010, roughly half, and the oldest registration here dates to 2005. That is a fairly even mix of long established addresses and newer ones.
- 39 practices, all in ZIP code 58103
- 33 general dentists and 7 dental clinics, no specialists
- 27th St S and Gateway Dr S hold 19 of them
- 24 individual practitioners, 15 organizations
How to choose between them
Since every listing here is general dentistry or a clinic, the choice is about routine care and referral habits. Ask whether they are taking new patients, whether they take your specific plan, and when you could be seen. Then ask what they do in house, because that is the question that decides how often you will travel.
Plenty of general dentists carry out simple root canals, straightforward extractions, gum treatment and aligner cases themselves. Others refer all of it. Neither approach is wrong, but knowing which you are dealing with before you register tells you what a full course of treatment will actually look like.
If you need something Westgate does not have
All six specialties we track are missing here, and all six have their nearest listings elsewhere in Fargo, about 0.5 miles away. There we record 14 oral and maxillofacial surgery practices, 9 orthodontic, 9 pediatric, 7 endodontic, 4 periodontic and 2 prosthodontic. Half a mile is about as short a trip as a missing specialty ever involves.
Neighboring areas add more general dentistry. West Acres is 1.3 miles away with 19 practices, South High is 0.4 miles with 10, Bluemont Lakes is 1.6 miles with 10, Lewis & Clark is 1.4 miles with 9, Willow Park is 1.8 miles with 7 and Clara Barton is 1.4 miles with 4.
Insurance and paying
In network means a practice has agreed to your insurer's contracted fees and charges those rates. Out of network still means treatment, usually at a higher cost and sometimes with a claim you submit yourself. It is a commercial arrangement rather than a quality rating, and a practice can take one plan from an insurer and not another.
Ask for a written estimate before any treatment beyond a check up and clean, listing the procedure codes, the fee, the expected plan payment and your share, and ask how much of your annual maximum is left. Our registry holds no fees, no opening hours and no insurance information, and none of these 39 practices have claimed their listing or published hours with us. Until a practice claims its page, the office phone is the only reliable source.
If it is urgent
Call first thing and be direct: a tooth has broken, a filling has come out, or the pain kept you awake. Emergency appointments are usually released early in the day. With 33 general practices in Westgate and the rest of Fargo half a mile away, working through a list of numbers is a practical approach.
Some symptoms belong in an emergency room rather than a dental office: swelling spreading toward your eye or down your neck, difficulty breathing or swallowing, a fever alongside facial swelling, or bleeding that will not stop after an extraction. To search by distance rather than by neighborhood, use dentist directory.
Questions patients ask
How many dentists are in Westgate, Fargo?
Our directory lists 39 dental practices with a Westgate address, all in ZIP code 58103. Thirty three of them list general dentistry and the other seven are recorded as dental clinics. No dental specialties are listed in the neighborhood at all. Fargo as a whole has 234 listed practices.
Where is the nearest orthodontist or oral surgeon?
Both are elsewhere in Fargo, about 0.5 miles from Westgate. We record 9 orthodontic practices and 14 oral and maxillofacial surgery practices at that distance, along with 9 pediatric, 7 endodontic, 4 periodontic and 2 prosthodontic. Every specialty missing from Westgate is available within a mile.
Does a general dentist cover most of what I need?
For routine care, yes. Check ups, cleanings, fillings, crowns and many extractions are general dentistry, and plenty of general dentists also do simple root canals and gum treatment. Ask your practice what they handle themselves and what they refer, since that varies considerably and decides how far you travel.