Orofacial Pain Dentistry
252 active US providers register Orofacial Pain Dentistry as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.00% of every provider in the registry, and the 583rd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 1223X2210X
- Grouping
- Dental Providers
- Classification
- Dentist
- Specialization
- Orofacial Pain
- Active providers
- 252
- States covered
- 35 of 51
What the code means
A dentist who assesses, diagnoses, and treats patients with complex chronic orofacial pain and dysfunction disorders, oromotor and jaw behavior disorders, and chronic head/neck pain. The dentist has successfully completed an accredited postdoctoral orofacial pain residency training program for dentists of two or more years duration, in accord with the Commission on Dental Accreditation's Standards for Orofacial Pain Residency Programs, and/or meets the requirements for examination and board certification by the American Board of Orofacial Pain.
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 | 47 | |
| Texas | 28 | |
| Minnesota | 22 | |
| Massachusetts | 16 | |
| Washington | 14 | |
| New York | 12 | |
| Virginia | 11 | |
| Arizona | 11 | |
| Kentucky | 9 | |
| North Carolina | 8 | |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | |
| Maryland | 6 | |
| Tennessee | 5 | |
| South Carolina | 4 | |
| Mississippi | 4 |
Showing the 15 largest of 35 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
180 of these are people and 72 are organisations, so 29% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2019, and 112 registered in the last five years, 44% of the current population.
That is a fast-growing code. A population where a large share registered recently is either a genuinely expanding field or a category NPPES added late, and the taxonomy definition above usually tells you which.
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.
- LOS ANGELES, CA16
- BOSTON, MA10
- MINNEAPOLIS, MN10
- LEXINGTON, KY8
- GILBERT, AZ4
- NEW YORK, NY4
- HOUSTON, TX4
- PLANO, TX4
- VISTA, CA3
- MESA, AZ3
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Orofacial Pain 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 | 82 | 32.5% |
| General Practice Dentistry | 46 | 18.3% |
| Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) | 31 | 12.3% |
| Customized Equipment (DME) | 9 | 3.6% |
| Oral Medicine Dentistry | 7 | 2.8% |
| Dental Clinic/Center | 5 | 2.0% |
| Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies | 4 | 1.6% |
| Pain Medicine Physician | 3 | 1.2% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Dentist.
- Dental Anesthesiology550
- Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Dentistry897
- Public Health Dentistry1,800
- Prosthodontics4,792
- Periodontics8,809
- Endodontics9,326
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.