General Practice Dentistry
179,989 active US providers register General Practice Dentistry as their primary taxonomy. That is 1.9% of every provider in the registry, and the 11th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 1223G0001X
- Grouping
- Dental Providers
- Classification
- Dentist
- Specialization
- General Practice
- Active providers
- 179,989
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A general dentist is the primary dental care provider for patients of all ages. The general dentist is responsible for the diagnosis, treatment, management and overall coordination of services related to patients' oral health needs.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | 24,619 | |
| Texas | 15,808 | |
| Florida | 10,295 | |
| New York | 10,253 | |
| Illinois | 7,655 | |
| Pennsylvania | 6,283 | |
| Michigan | 5,969 | |
| North Carolina | 5,926 | |
| New Jersey | 5,531 | |
| Ohio | 5,372 | |
| Massachusetts | 5,223 | |
| Virginia | 4,775 | |
| Washington | 4,476 | |
| Georgia | 4,356 | |
| Arizona | 3,908 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
125,765 of these are people and 54,224 are organisations, so 30% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2008, and 27,246 registered in the last five years, 15% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- HOUSTON, TX2,087
- CHICAGO, IL1,661
- NEW YORK, NY1,566
- LOS ANGELES, CA1,267
- BROOKLYN, NY1,170
- SAN ANTONIO, TX1,116
- DALLAS, TX1,094
- LAS VEGAS, NV879
- SAN DIEGO, CA848
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA783
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is General Practice Dentistry most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dentist | 6,012 | 3.3% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 3,475 | 1.9% |
| Pediatric Dentistry | 807 | 0.4% |
| Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) | 803 | 0.4% |
| Endodontics | 798 | 0.4% |
| Periodontics | 748 | 0.4% |
| Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Dentistry | 711 | 0.4% |
| Dental Clinic/Center | 506 | 0.3% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Dentist.
- Dentist124,105
- Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Dentistry21,241
- Pediatric Dentistry17,480
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)12,884
- Endodontics9,326
- Periodontics8,809
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.