What follows uses only what the registry records: counts, specialty types, streets, ZIP codes and registration dates. Nothing has been added about the neighborhood itself, because the register does not contain it and a guess would be no use to you.
Forty five practices on two roads
Rolling Rd carries 28 listings, plus 1 more recorded as Rolling Road. Traford Ln carries 11, with a further 5 written as Traford Lane. Those are the same two streets entered in different formats, and together they account for the whole neighborhood list. Two ZIP codes apply, 22152 and 22153.
By type, 33 of the 45 are general dentists. Beyond that the register shows 6 dental clinics, 5 orthodontists, 2 periodontists and 1 endodontist. That is a list built around routine dentistry, with a small amount of specialist cover attached.
Twenty eight listings are individual practitioners registered under their own names and 17 are organizations. Twenty eight have been on the register since before 2010, and the oldest record in Cardinal Forest dates to 2005, so a good proportion of these practices have been in place for a long time.
How to compare 33 general practices
When most of the field does the same work, choose on the things that vary. Ask when the practice opens and closes, how long the wait is for a routine appointment, whether you see the same dentist each visit, and how an unexpected problem is fitted in.
Ask also what stays in house. A practice that does its own root canals, extractions and crown work saves you the referral trip, and with only 1 endodontist and 2 periodontists listed locally, that is a meaningful difference here.
The 6 dental clinics are a category the register does not describe in any detail. If one is convenient for you, call and ask what treatments it provides and whether it is taking new patients.
- Whether new patients are being taken on
- Whether the office is in 22152 or 22153
- How quickly an urgent problem is seen
- Which treatments are done in house
- Whether children are seen at the practice
Three things you will need to go elsewhere for
Pediatric dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery and prosthodontics are all absent from the Cardinal Forest listings. Pediatric dentists and oral surgeons are available elsewhere in Springfield, 1.6 miles away, though in small numbers: 4 pediatric practices and 3 oral surgery practices are registered there. For prosthodontics the nearest listings are in Annandale, 3.8 miles out, where 7 are on the register.
For more general choice, Yates Village is the biggest cluster within reach, listing 37 practices at 2.9 miles. Fairfax Park has 9 at just 0.4 miles, Monticello Forest has 8 at 2.5 miles and Fair Vernon has 7 at 2.8 miles. Keene Mill Manor at 0.6 miles and Red Fox Forest at 1.9 miles each list 3.
Paying, and the limits of what we can show
In network means agreed fees with the specific plan you hold, not a general willingness to bill your insurer. Since one company can run several plans with different arrangements, quote the exact plan name when you call and get the answer from the office rather than from a directory.
Ask for a written estimate before any treatment beyond an examination, showing the total fee, the expected insurance payment and your share. Where a plan has an annual maximum, ask whether larger work can sensibly be spread across two benefit years.
It is worth stating what this directory does not do. The registry holds no fees, no opening hours and no insurance information, and in Cardinal Forest none of the 45 listings currently publish a website or hours through us, nor have any been claimed. Claiming a listing is how a practice adds the detail the public record leaves out.
Urgent problems and hospital red flags
For a cracked tooth, a lost filling or pain that has not eased overnight, call first thing and ask for a same day appointment rather than the next free slot. Because the practices here sit on two roads, working through a short list costs very little travel. You can also search outward by distance at dentist directory.
Not everything belongs in a dental chair. Go to an emergency room 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 will not stop. Those are hospital problems and waiting on a dental appointment is the wrong call.
For a knocked out adult tooth, hold it by the crown, keep it in milk or saliva, and try to be seen inside the hour.
Questions patients ask
How many dentists are in Cardinal Forest, Springfield?
Forty five dental practices are listed, out of 175 in Springfield overall. Thirty three are general dentists, alongside 6 dental clinics, 5 orthodontists, 2 periodontists and 1 endodontist. All of them are on Rolling Rd or Traford Ln, across ZIP codes 22152 and 22153.
Is there a pediatric dentist in Cardinal Forest?
No pediatric dentist is listed in the neighborhood. The nearest are elsewhere in Springfield, about 1.6 miles away, where 4 are registered. Many general dentists see children too, so ask one of the 33 general practices here what age range they take before arranging anything further afield.
Which street in Cardinal Forest has the most dentists?
Rolling Rd, comfortably. Twenty eight listings give it as Rolling Rd and one more as Rolling Road, so 29 of the 45 practices are on it. The other 16 are on Traford Ln, recorded as Traford Ln on 11 listings and Traford Lane on 5. No other street appears.