Dr. Huiying Chen Dental Care

Across Veterans Memorial Boulevard near Metairie’s eastern edge, Dr. Huiying Chen Dental Care sits in a strip of professional offices just off the main traffic flow. The one-story building at 5037 Veterans Memorial Blvd #2a handles pediatric exams through geriatric cleanings, with a side line in simple oral surgery and basic orthodontic assessments. Crowns, bridges, and onlays roll through the back lab, and emergencies get triaged the same day when slots allow. A second set of chairs is reserved each week for pediatric patients whose parents want everything under one roof.

Diagnostics run the usual gamut—full-mouth X-rays, panoramic slices, and cone-beam CT when bone structure matters. The office keeps nitrous and local anesthesia on hand for fillings and extractions, and a soft-tissue diode laser handles minor gingival work without stitches. Digital scans feed into an in-house milling unit when same-visit crowns are in play, cutting one more return trip for busy patients. Nights and weekends aren’t on the calendar, but the practice still fields calls after hours for urgent pain.

Getting here takes a left off the boulevard into the second parking row; the signage is easy to spot from the lane. Inside, the flow is clinic-grade rather than boutique, built for throughput rather than atmosphere. Most patients arrive by car from nearby subdivisions or the older apartment clusters along the service road, so traffic is predictable but not heavy. The waiting period rarely creeps past fifteen minutes unless X-ray volume spikes.

To schedule or move an appointment, call (504) 875-3718 and a scheduler will pull the next available block. For step-by-step directions straight to the door, the map keeps the route updated when construction reroutes Veterans Memorial. That’s all it takes to arrive.