The mix is narrow. Twenty six of the 34 listings include general dentistry, five are dental clinics, two list oral and maxillofacial surgery and one lists pediatric dentistry. Four common specialties have no listing here at all.
What is listed in Ballard
Twenty six of the 34 listings include general dentistry. Five are registered as dental clinics, two list oral and maxillofacial surgery and one lists pediatric dentistry. Practices can carry more than one specialty, so these overlap.
NW Market St is the main address with 11 listings. 15th Ave NW has seven, NW 56th St six, 24th Ave NW three and Leary Ave NW two. Everything sits inside ZIP code 98107.
Twenty listings are individual practitioners and 14 are organizations. Only 14 of the 34 were registered before 2010, with the oldest registration dating to 2005. Ballard also has more published detail than most neighborhoods in this set: five listings publish a website through us and two publish opening hours.
How to choose between them
Twenty six general listings in a compact area is a comfortable choice for routine care. Because the practices sit along a handful of streets, convenience is a sensible first filter.
Ask what a new patient exam with x-rays costs, how quickly an existing patient in pain is seen, and which treatments the practice carries out itself. The last question is worth pressing here, since several of the usual referral specialties have no local listing.
The five listings registered as dental clinics and the 14 organizations tend to have more chairs and more short notice availability. The 20 individual practitioner listings more often mean seeing the same dentist every visit.
Five listings publish a website, which is more than most neighborhoods here. If a practice has taken the trouble to publish details, that is usually a good sign of how it handles patient questions.
When you need something that is not here
Four specialties have no listing in Ballard: orthodontics, endodontics, periodontics and prosthodontics. For all four, the nearest listed concentrations are elsewhere in Seattle, about 3.7 miles away, with 79 orthodontic, 52 periodontic, 48 endodontic and 45 prosthodontic practices.
The choice is very wide once you travel, but travel you must. For orthodontics in particular, which means repeat visits over many months, that is worth weighing up before starting.
Pediatric dentistry has a single listing here, so families may want to look wider too. Nearby, Crown Hill has 14 listings at 1.9 miles, Phinney Ridge 13 at 1.2 miles and Whittier Heights nine at 1.0 mile. Loyal Heights has four at 1.1 miles, Olympic Manor three at 1.6 miles and Magnolia three at 1.8 miles.
Insurance and paying
None of the 34 listings in Ballard has been claimed. Five publish a website and two publish opening hours, which is the full extent of the extra detail here. The registry these entries come from records who a provider is and what they practice, and it holds no fees, no opening hours and no insurance information at all. Claiming a listing is how a practice supplies those, which is why the claimed ones are worth more.
So confirm coverage by phone. Give the full name of your plan rather than just the insurer, because a practice can be in network with one plan from a company and out of network with another. Out of network practices often still file the claim, but you pay the gap.
For crowns, implants or anything referred out of the neighborhood, ask for a written estimate with the procedure codes. It is the only document that lets a second practice quote on identical work.
If it is urgent
Call at opening and describe the problem in one sentence. With 11 listings on NW Market St and seven on 15th Ave NW, several practices are within a short distance of each other, and the five dental clinics are worth trying early.
Some symptoms need an emergency room rather than a dentist. Go to hospital immediately if swelling is spreading toward your eye or down into your neck, if you are having trouble breathing or swallowing, if you have a fever alongside facial swelling, or if bleeding from your mouth will not stop.
If nothing in Ballard is free, dentist directory searches by distance rather than by neighborhood, which will pick up Whittier Heights, Phinney Ridge and Crown Hill in the same results.
Questions patients ask
How many dentists are listed in Ballard?
Thirty four practices, out of 1,552 across Seattle. Twenty six include general dentistry, five are registered as dental clinics and two list oral and maxillofacial surgery. NW Market St has the largest cluster with 11 listings, and all of them are in ZIP code 98107.
Is there an orthodontist in Ballard?
No orthodontic practice is listed in the neighborhood. Seventy nine are listed elsewhere in Seattle, about 3.7 miles away, so the choice is wide once you leave. Endodontics, periodontics and prosthodontics are also absent from Ballard and available at the same distance.
Which neighborhoods near Ballard have dentists?
Crown Hill has 14 listings at 1.9 miles and Phinney Ridge 13 at 1.2 miles. Whittier Heights has nine at 1.0 mile and Loyal Heights four at 1.1 miles. None is large, so the wider Seattle listings are where the real depth sits.