So more than half of the town's dentistry is in this one neighborhood, which changes the calculation when something is missing. This guide covers what the registry records, how to choose, where to go for the gaps, and what to check on cost and urgent care.
What is listed in Archer Bluff
Twenty six of the 35 listings are general dentistry. The specialist entries are five orthodontics, two pediatric dentistry, one periodontics, one endodontics and one dental public health. Practices can hold more than one registration, so those figures describe the care available rather than counting separate offices.
Charles H Dimmock Pkwy carries 22 of the listings, with one more recorded as Charles H Dimmock Parkway. Southpark Blvd has 9, with two further listings under variant spellings of the same road. Everything sits inside one ZIP code, so the whole set is close together.
Twenty three of the listings are registered to individual practitioners and 12 to organizations. Fifteen of the 35 were registered before 2010 and the oldest registration dates to 2005. One practice publishes a website through the registry and one publishes opening hours.
- 35 practices, 26 of them general dentistry
- 22 listings on Charles H Dimmock Pkwy
- One ZIP code, 23834
- 23 individual practitioners, 12 organizations
- 15 registered before 2010
Choosing a practice
Five orthodontics listings and two pediatric listings is good coverage for a neighborhood of 35 practices, so families have real choice locally. For adults, you are comparing 26 general practices, mostly on two roads, which makes the practical questions the deciding ones.
Ask how far ahead routine appointments book, whether the same dentist sees you each visit, and how the practice handles a call about sudden pain. Ask too what they treat in house. With only one endodontics and one periodontics listing here, most specialist work will involve a referral, and where that referral goes matters more than usual in a town this size.
Two gaps, and one of them is a drive
Oral and maxillofacial surgery has no listing in Archer Bluff. The nearest practices are in Chester, about 8.1 miles away, where 7 are recorded. Prosthodontics is further still: the nearest single practice is in Midlothian, about 21.3 miles away. If you are facing dentures, bridges or implant restorations, that distance is worth discussing before treatment starts.
The nearby neighborhoods are small. Sherwood Hills is 2.4 miles away with 12 listed practices and Brookside is 1.6 miles away with 3. With 35 of the town's 68 listings already in Archer Bluff, a second opinion usually means another practice on this same list.
Insurance and what these listings leave out
The registry holds no fees, no opening hours and no insurance information. One Archer Bluff practice publishes a website and one publishes hours, and none has claimed its listing. So this page tells you accurately who is registered where and almost nothing else. Claimed listings are how a practice adds the detail that decides most bookings.
Ask on the phone whether they are in network for your exact plan rather than for the insurer generally, since one company usually runs several networks at different rates. Ask for a written estimate before treatment, with procedure codes, the fee, the expected plan payment and your share. If prosthodontic work is proposed, ask how many visits it will take given the distance involved.
- Confirm the network for your specific plan
- Ask for a written estimate before treatment
- Ask how many visits a course of treatment needs
- Check what remains of your annual maximum
Urgent care
For same day pain, call early and ask for an emergency appointment rather than the next routine opening. With 22 practices on Charles H Dimmock Pkwy alone and 35 in the neighborhood in total, working through the list is usually quicker than traveling. To search by distance from where you are, 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 breathing or swallowing is becoming difficult, 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 Archer Bluff?
Thirty five dental practices are listed in Archer Bluff, all inside ZIP code 23834. Twenty six are general dentistry, five are orthodontics, two are pediatric dentistry, and there is one each for periodontics, endodontics and dental public health. Colonial Heights as a whole has just 68 listed practices.
Where is the nearest oral surgeon to Archer Bluff?
Oral and maxillofacial surgery has no listing in Archer Bluff. The nearest seven practices are in Chester, about 8.1 miles away. That covers wisdom teeth, difficult extractions and jaw surgery. Ask your general dentist for the referral and check whether the practice takes your insurance before you travel.
Where do I go for dentures or implants from Archer Bluff?
Prosthodontics is the specialty with the longest trip attached. The nearest listed practice is in Midlothian, about 21.3 miles away. Many general dentists provide dentures and crowns themselves, so ask your own practice what they offer before assuming you need to travel that far.