Twenty-nine of the 30 listings are recorded as general dentistry, and three are recorded as pediatric dentistry. No other specialty appears at all. For everyday care that is workable, but almost every referral will take you out of the neighborhood.
What is listed in Northbank
Aramingo Ave carries 19 listings, with 2 more recorded as Aramingo Avenue. E Cumberland St has 7, with one more as E. Cumberland Street and one recorded with a street number range attached. Between them those two roads account for the whole neighborhood, which makes a search straightforward.
One ZIP code, 19125, covers the area. Twenty-eight listings are registered to individual practitioners and only 2 to organizations. Just 6 have been on the register since before 2010, and the oldest registration dates to 2006, so this is a neighborhood of comparatively recent registrations.
- Aramingo Ave, including the spelled out variant: 21 practices
- E Cumberland St and its variants: 9 practices
- ZIP code covered: 19125
- 28 individual practitioner registrations against 2 organizations
Choosing between them
Only six of the 30 listings predate 2010, which is a low proportion. That is not a mark against any individual practice, but it does mean you should ask how long the dentist has worked at that address and what happens to your records if the practice changes hands. Continuity is worth asking about directly here.
With 28 of 30 listings registered to individuals rather than organizations, most entries are a named dentist rather than a group. Solo practices usually give you the same dentist at every visit, but fewer appointment slots and less cover for vacations. Ask who sees you when your dentist is away.
Three pediatric dentistry listings appear in the neighborhood as well, which is worth knowing if you have young children and would rather not travel for a first visit. Ask whether they see new child patients and from what age, since the registry records the specialty but nothing about the practice's policies.
What is not here
Five specialties have no listing in Northbank: orthodontics, endodontics, periodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery and prosthodontics. All five are nearest elsewhere in Philadelphia, 1.7 miles away, where the directory lists 98 orthodontic, 58 endodontic, 81 periodontic, 99 oral and maxillofacial surgery and 37 prosthodontic practices. The distance is short and the choice at the other end is very wide.
For more general dentistry close by, Kensington lists 28 practices at 1.1 miles and Richmond 21 at 1.3 miles. Port Richmond has 10 at 1.1 miles, Northern Liberties 8 at 1.4 miles, Olde Kensington 7 at 1.3 miles and Fishtown 5 at 0.7 miles.
Insurance and paying
In network means your insurer has agreed the fee in advance and you pay the agreed share. Out of network means the practice sets its own fee and your plan reimburses part of it, or nothing at all. Ask which applies before your first appointment rather than at the counter afterward.
For anything beyond an exam and clean, ask for a written estimate with procedure codes, the total and your expected share. Because most specialist care means a trip into Philadelphia proper, ask that specialist for their own written estimate as well.
Our registry holds no fees, no opening hours and no insurance information. None of the 30 Northbank listings has a published website or published hours in the record, and none has been claimed by its owner. Claiming a listing is how a practice adds those details, which is why claimed listings tell a patient more.
If it is urgent
For a broken tooth, a lost filling or pain that has kept you awake, call along Aramingo Ave and E Cumberland St from opening time. With 29 general dentists in a compact area, a handful of calls covers the neighborhood. Solo practices often keep one short notice slot a day, and it goes to whoever calls first.
Some symptoms mean an emergency room rather than a dentist. Go to hospital if swelling is spreading toward your eye or down your neck, if breathing or swallowing is becoming difficult, if you have a fever alongside facial swelling, or if bleeding from the mouth will not stop.
If nothing local can see you, search outward by distance at dentist directory.
Questions patients ask
How many dentists are listed in Northbank?
Thirty practices, all inside ZIP code 19125, from a Philadelphia total of 2,101. Twenty-nine are recorded as general dentistry and three as pediatric dentistry. No other specialty is listed in the neighborhood. Twenty-eight are registered to individual practitioners and only two to organizations.
Where do I go for a root canal or braces?
Neither endodontics nor orthodontics has a listing in Northbank. Both are nearest elsewhere in Philadelphia, about 1.7 miles away, where 58 endodontic and 98 orthodontic practices are on the register. Periodontics, oral surgery and prosthodontics are the same trip, so a referral rarely means going far.
Which nearby neighborhoods have more dentists?
Kensington is the largest close by with 28 practices at 1.1 miles, followed by Richmond with 21 at 1.3 miles and Port Richmond with 10 at 1.1 miles. Fishtown is the nearest at 0.7 miles but lists only five. Northern Liberties and Olde Kensington add eight and seven respectively.