UK Dentistry - Urgent Care Clinic

UK Dentistry - Urgent Care Clinic is located at 800 Rose Street in Lexington, Kentucky — the dental urgent care and emergency access clinic of the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, operating from the same 800 Rose Street address as the UK College of Dentistry's main teaching clinics on the UK HealthCare academic medical campus in ZIP 40536. "Urgent Care" in a dental context refers to same-day or next-day access for acute dental conditions — toothache, dental abscess, broken tooth, lost restoration, dental trauma, or other conditions that cause acute pain or functional impairment — as distinct from "emergency dentistry" broadly and from elective restorative or preventive procedures that can be scheduled routinely. The UK Dentistry Urgent Care Clinic provides a distinct access point within the UK dental school's patient care infrastructure for patients who need expedited evaluation and treatment without a prior established patient relationship or advance appointment scheduling — an important access function for Lexington patients experiencing acute dental pain who seek academic dental care rather than or in addition to private emergency dental practices. As with all UK College of Dentistry patient care services, the Urgent Care Clinic operates under faculty supervision of dental students and residents, meaning care is provided in a teaching environment with the corresponding lower fees typical of academic dental care.

UK Dentistry - Urgent Care Clinic provides same-day or expedited dental evaluations and emergency dental treatments for patients in Lexington, Fayette County, and the surrounding central Kentucky communities experiencing acute dental conditions. Emergency and urgent dental services include pain evaluation and management, dental abscess examination and antibiotic therapy or drainage referral, broken tooth assessment and temporary restoration, lost filling or crown emergency re-cementation, dental trauma evaluation (chipped, fractured, avulsed, or luxated teeth), and triage for conditions requiring referral to the UK oral surgery or specialist departments within the dental school's faculty-supervised clinical infrastructure. The UK HealthCare campus location at 800 Rose Street provides access to on-site specialist backup within the UK College of Dentistry for urgent cases requiring immediate specialist consultation or referral.

Rose Street's UK HealthCare campus position provides access from South Limestone Street and the UK campus transit network, from downtown Lexington via Limestone Street, and from the I-75 and I-64 Lexington interchanges. The UK Dentistry at Turfland satellite clinic (2195 Harrodsburg Rd) extends UK dental access to the west Lexington ZIP 40504 community for patients who cannot easily access the Rose Street campus.

For Lexington and central Kentucky patients experiencing acute dental pain or dental emergencies who seek academic dental care, UK Dentistry - Urgent Care Clinic at 800 Rose Street provides expedited dental access within the UK College of Dentistry's faculty-supervised teaching clinic campus.