The Chickasaw Nation dental clinics provide access to comprehensive, coordinated and family-centered oral health care. Our dental care model establishes an ongoing relationship between patients and the dental team, ensuring every patient is paired with a dedicated dentist, hygienist and dental assistant for personalized care.

Our care model:

• Team-Driven Approach: Our dentists lead a team of dental professionals who collectively commit to provide each patient the highest quality in oral health care.
• Education and Prevention: Many oral health issues can be prevented with proper care. The dental team educates patients about regular care, prevention and managing risks for more serious oral health concerns.
• Coordinated Care: All elements of the health system, including pediatric dentistry, prosthodontics, endodontics and oral surgery, work together to ensure patients receive the right care at the right time.
• Commitment to Quality and Safety: Patient health and safety are top priorities, and dental teams strive to provide the highest quality care at every visit.

We ask patients to make every effort to keep scheduled appointments. Please communicate with the team to reschedule if the need arises.

Services:

The dental care team diagnoses and treats dental disease by delivering high-quality dental services in a timely, competent and consistent manner.

Treatment may include urgent care, oral surgery, restorative procedures, endodontic therapy, prosthetics, preventive care and pediatric dental services, excluding orthodontics. 

Services include:

• Management of dental pain and infection, treatment of oral health and treatment of trauma
• Comprehensive examinations, establishment of treatment plans and preventative services
• Basic restorative care including amalgam and composite restoration, restoration of primary teeth to include stainless steel crowns and crown buildups
• Advanced restorative care
• Oral surgery procedures 
• Complete and partial dentures 
• Community outreach
• Urgent dental care remains available to patients at all locations. If the patient is experiencing severe pain or swelling, please call the dental call center for assistance.

For questions, assistance or to speak to a dental provider please call (580) 421-4596 between the hours of 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Things to consider for your appointment:

• Bring your photo ID, CDIB, birth certificate
• Parent or a legal guardian must accompany children to exam and specialty consultation appointments
• Check in with registration 10-15 minutes early
• Patients who are 15 or more minutes late may need to be rescheduled
• Minors may not be left unattended in waiting areas
• Only the patient being seen will be allowed back in the clinic for treatment 

Specialty Services and Eligibility:

To qualify for specialty services, patients must have an active chart, be assigned a dental care team and have an up-to-date exam on record. Additional requirements to see specialty services can be discussed with the dentist during an initial exam. Specialty services are provided in Ada. 

• Prosthodontics Eligibility – First Americans residing within the Chickasaw Nation boundaries
• Oral Surgery Eligibility – First Americans residing within the Chickasaw Nation boundaries
• Pediatric Dentistry Eligibility – First Americans residing within the Chickasaw Nation boundaries 
• Tooth Booth Eligibility – First Americans who are active patients of the Chickasaw Nation Department of Health
• Endodontics Eligibility – First Americans residing within the Chickasaw Nation boundaries 
• Urgent Appointment Eligibility – First Americans and Chickasaw citizens 
• Criteria for Urgent Appointments:
  • Severe pain with no relief from over-the-counter medications
  • Broken tooth with the majority of tooth missing
  • Uncontrolled bleeding
  • Dental avulsion (a tooth knocked out of the socket and out of the mouth)
  • Jaw fractures - This is considered a true emergency. Patients experiencing a jaw fracture should go to the emergency room immediately to be stabilized before being seen in the dental clinic.
  • Swelling into the eye or down the neck - This is a potentially life-threatening situation. Anyone experiencing these symptoms should go to the emergency room immediately to be stabilized before being seen in the dental clinic.

Hours of operation:

Ada, Ardmore, Purcell and Tishomingo
Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m.