Avalon Clinic, Catalina Island

Avalon Clinic
Avalon School
200 Falls Canyon Road
Avalon, California 90704
Phone: (562) 933-3141
Hours vary, please call.

The Children’s Dental Health Clinic (CDHC) started the Avalon Satellite Clinic in 1988 in an effort to treat the “hidden population” in Catalina. There is only one dentist on the island and his practice does not accept Denti-Cal or other government insurance. The children of the many restaurant, hotel, and tourism industry workers (typically low-income jobs) had nowhere to receive dental care without taking the boat to Long Beach and back - a long and expensive day. Many of the children on Catalina Island have extensive oral disease. This is compounded by the fact that Catalina Island still does not fluoridate their water supply- something many cities do - and has been proven by the CDC and FDA to be effective and safe.

For the past 22 years, the Children’s Dental Health Clinic (CDHC) has been providing dental care at the Avalon School. We started in a donated converted travel trailer that had an authentic 1950’s vintage look. In 1993, the LBUSD kindly donated one of their old construction trailers, which we converted into our current two operatory clinic. 

We send a dental team 2-4 times per month to care for children from birth through high school, the only game in town for many of our patients. We offer the best quality care; so if these children have very complex medical or therapeutic issues, we refer them “over town” to our main clinic in Long Beach. Our dentists and staff members that have made the journey will attest that it can be a long but very rewarding day.