From Taylorsville, 4700 South does almost all the work. Drive east from Redwood Road, cross the Jordan River, go over I-15, and the road becomes 4500 South. A block past State Street, on the south side, is our office: three and a half miles or so, six to ten minutes with ordinary traffic. Before you set out, call (385) 480-0270 and our dentists will have a same-day time and a room held for you.
Without insurance, $99 covers both the emergency exam and its X-ray.
The $99 emergency exam fee is for patients paying without insurance. It covers a limited, problem-focused emergency exam and the X-ray needed to diagnose the tooth. Treatment is priced separately and quoted to you in writing before any work starts.
Same-day appointments · $99 exam + X-ray · Phones answered 24/7 · In network with four major plans
How far is our office from Taylorsville?
About 3.5 road miles from the Redwood Road and 4700 South area, where Taylorsville City Hall, the Taylorsville Library and the Harmons sit. We're at 622 E 4500 South Ste 103, Salt Lake City, UT 84107, between State Street and 700 East in the Murray area. Taylorsville's 84123 zip code reaches toward us, so from Vista Park or Millrace Park you're at the short end of the range.
The Jordan River and I-15 are the two things you cross; 4700 South bridges both and turns into 4500 South east of the freeway.
Same-day emergency dental care for Taylorsville patients
Office hours: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM; Thursday, a half day that ends at 12:00 PM. Inside those hours, a call to the front desk gets you a same-day appointment. We don't accept walk-ins. The room and the dentist get set aside at the moment you call, not when you show up.
Outside those hours a live answering service answers instead, noting your name, number and what's hurting and holding the first opening on the next office day. The same-day dentist page describes the after-hours system in more detail.
During the visit our dentists X-ray the tooth, study it closely, and spell out what they found. If the treatment can be done that day, it usually is, after you've seen the price in writing.
What to do about a weekend or evening toothache in Taylorsville
We're closed Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The office also closes at 5:00 PM Monday through Wednesday and at noon on Thursday. What doesn't close is the phone. It's answered 24/7; after hours, a live answering service collects your details and reserves the first opening, and after a weekend that opening is Monday at 8:00 AM. Call the moment the tooth starts, even late on a Saturday.
A hospital comes before us in three cases: a swelling that's spreading up toward the eye or down the throat, breathing or swallowing that's getting hard, or bleeding that pressure doesn't stop. For Taylorsville the closer emergency room is Intermountain Medical Center, on State Street at 5300 South, a couple of miles south of our office. In Utah, an emergency room handles the spreading infection, the facial injury or the bleeding, not the tooth; it won't pull one or do a root canal. Once you're out, call us about the tooth.
What an emergency dental visit costs for Taylorsville patients
Out of pocket, the exam-and-X-ray visit is $99. Treatment has its own price, written out and placed in your hands before our dentists begin.
We're in network with four major dental plans, all named on the cost and insurance page. Hold one of them and that plan gets charged for the exam and X-ray. Hold something else and you're probably out of network, which still leaves us submitting the claim for you. For treatment, cash, credit cards, CareCredit financing and credit union financing for larger treatments all work. Sometimes a larger bill can be split into payments; ask about it on the call.
Getting here from Taylorsville
- From Taylorsville City Hall, the Library or the Harmons and Walmart on Redwood Road: 4700 South east. Cross the Jordan River, go over I-15 (the road is now 4500 South), cross State Street, and we're on the south side of the street in the first block. Parking on site.
- From Salt Lake Community College Taylorsville Redwood Campus or Taylorsville High School: Redwood Road to 4700 South, then east as above.
- From the Bangerter Highway side, Valley Regional Park or Fore Lakes Golf Course: Bangerter to 4700 South, then east. West of I-15 the road is also called the Taylorsville Expressway.
- From I-215: I-215 east to I-15 north, exit at 4500 South, go east past State Street.
Emergency dental services for Taylorsville families
Everything below is done in our own office on 4500 South. Toothache relief begins with the X-ray that shows why it hurts. A dental abscess is drained and treated. A molar with deep decay may need an emergency root canal to save it or an emergency tooth extraction if it's past saving. Aching, half-erupted back teeth are usually wisdom tooth pain, and when they need to come out, we do the emergency wisdom tooth extraction here. A broken or chipped tooth from a tumble at Taylorsville Park is rebuilt with bonding, a filling or a crown.
Our service area page has Taylorsville and seven more areas. Murray and South Salt Lake, across the freeway, have their own pages.
Frequently asked questions
How quickly can someone from Taylorsville be seen?
During office hours, the same day. Call (385) 480-0270 any time Monday to Wednesday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, or on Thursday before noon, and the front desk holds a time. Walk-ins aren't accepted; a call is required. From Redwood Road, the drive east on 4700 South takes six to ten minutes.
I cracked a tooth on a Sunday in Taylorsville. Who answers?
A live answering service. The person on the line notes your details and holds Monday's 8:00 AM opening. Until then, avoid chewing on that side and rinse with warm salt water. If the cheek swells toward your eye or you have trouble swallowing, go to Intermountain Medical Center on State Street at 5300 South.
Is 4500 South the same road as 4700 South?
On this route, yes. 4700 South runs east from Taylorsville, crosses the Jordan River and I-15, and becomes 4500 South on the Murray side. Stay on it past State Street and look for us in the first block on the south side.