From Westwood Village and the UCLA campus, our office at Sepulveda and National is about four miles south, a ten-to-twenty-minute drive depending on the hour. Call (424) 722-6124 and we'll hold you a same-day emergency appointment, Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, which beats most of Westwood's wait-and-see options by roughly a week.
The $89 covers the emergency exam and diagnostic X-rays. Treatment is priced separately and quoted to you in writing before any work starts.
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How far is our office from Westwood?
Two clean routes, both surface streets. Westwood Blvd runs south from the Village, past Pico and the UCLA Research Park, to National Blvd; turn west and you're at our Sepulveda corner. Or take Sepulveda itself south from Wilshire, under the 10, to National. Either way it's about four miles. Mid-morning that's ten to twelve minutes; at the 5 PM crescendo, budget twenty and take Westwood Blvd, which suffers less than Sepulveda's 405-adjacent stretch.
Students without cars have options too: buses run down both Westwood Blvd and Sepulveda, and the E Line's Expo/Sepulveda station is half a mile from our door.
Same-day emergency dental care for Westwood and UCLA patients
Westwood's dental market clusters around orthodontics, cosmetic work, and practices with three-week books. Our niche is the tooth that went wrong this morning. Call first, get a held time, and our dentists handle it in one office:
- Wisdom tooth pain, the signature complaint of the college years
- Wisdom tooth extraction when the X-ray says it's time
- Toothache workups and root canals
- Broken teeth from intramural sports, late-night falls, and popcorn kernels
Wisdom teeth open that list for a reason: the 18-to-30 window is when they erupt, get infected, and ruin finals weeks. The exam and X-rays answer, same day, whether yours needs to come out or just needs the gum around it treated.
What an emergency dental visit costs for Westwood patients
The visit starts at $89 for the exam and diagnostic X-rays, and every treatment after that is quoted in writing before you approve it. Students and recent grads without dental insurance get the identical process; financing options are available for the bigger procedures. If you're on a parent's PPO plan, we accept most major ones, including MetLife, Guardian, Delta Dental PPO, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, and Prudential. Details on the cost and insurance page.
Getting here from Westwood
- From Westwood Village / UCLA: Westwood Blvd south to National Blvd, then west to Sepulveda. Simple and signal-timed.
- From Wilshire and the condo corridor: Sepulveda south the whole way, under the 10, to National.
- From UCLA Medical Center area: either route works; Westwood Blvd is calmer at rush hour.
- Without a car: bus down Westwood Blvd or Sepulveda, or the E Line to Expo/Sepulveda plus a half-mile walk south.
We're in the large shopping center at Sepulveda and National with a CVS in it. Free parking in the lot, which Westwood Village drivers may need a moment to emotionally process.
Nights, weekends, and finals week
The office runs weekdays 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. The phone runs always: a real person answers (424) 722-6124 at 2 AM during finals as readily as 2 PM on a Tuesday, and holds you the first opening. A weekend wisdom-tooth flare should call Saturday, not Monday; the queue rewards it. What to do for pain overnight, and when an ER is the right first stop, is on the weekend and after-hours page.
Frequently asked questions from Westwood patients
My wisdom tooth flared up during midterms. Can this wait until the quarter ends?
Sometimes, and the $89 exam is how you find out honestly. An infected gum flap can often be settled quickly so you can schedule the extraction for a break week. But repeated flare-ups usually escalate, and an abscess during finals is strictly worse than an extraction during midterms. Get the X-ray now; then the timing decision is real instead of hopeful.
I'm a student without a car. How do I actually get there?
Buses run from Westwood down both Westwood Blvd and Sepulveda toward National, or ride the E Line to Expo/Sepulveda and walk half a mile south. For an extraction with sedation planned, bring a friend who can accompany you home; say so when you call and we'll schedule with that in mind.
Do you take UCLA student insurance or my parents' plan?
We accept most major PPO plans, including MetLife, Guardian, Delta Dental PPO, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, and Prudential; read us the card and we'll tell you how billing works. No coverage at all is also fine and common here: $89 to know what's wrong, a written price, and financing options if needed. The service area page shows everywhere else we cover, and our staff speak Spanish during office hours.