The Nashville Dental Society founded Interfaith Dental Clinic in the 1990s to serve the community and they continue to serve hundreds of patients every year. There are other safety net clinics throughout middle Tennessee, download this PDF for a comprehensive list.

We recommend seeing an ADA member dentist! You can find one near you using the ADA’s Find-a-Dentist website.

A dental specialty is an area of dentistry that has been formally recognized by the ADA’s National Commission. These specialties have their own regulatory boards, but generally require advanced study beyond a DMD or DDS degree.

Currently there are 12 dental specialties recognized by the National Commission: Dental Anesthesiology, Dental Public Health, Endodontics, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine, Orofacial Pain, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Pediatric Dentistry, Periodontics & Prosthodontics.

If you would like to file a formal complaint with the Board of Dentistry, you can find out more on their website.

Our partners at the TDA offer a conflict resolution service if you’d like to work through an issue with your dentist. Learn more about peer review on their website.

We recommend the ADA’s mouth healthy website for research-backed information.