Pediatric Dentistry
17,480 active US providers register Pediatric Dentistry as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 89th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 1223P0221X
- Grouping
- Dental Providers
- Classification
- Dentist
- Specialization
- Pediatric Dentistry
- Active providers
- 17,480
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An age-defined specialty that provides both primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care 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 | 2,096 | |
| Texas | 1,816 | |
| New York | 1,260 | |
| Florida | 1,064 | |
| Pennsylvania | 635 | |
| North Carolina | 590 | |
| New Jersey | 572 | |
| Massachusetts | 546 | |
| Georgia | 540 | |
| Virginia | 515 | |
| Washington | 472 | |
| Colorado | 461 | |
| Maryland | 453 | |
| Ohio | 439 | |
| Arizona | 409 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
10,900 of these are people and 6,580 are organisations, so 38% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2011, and 2,936 registered in the last five years, 17% 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.
- NEW YORK, NY198
- HOUSTON, TX193
- SAN ANTONIO, TX177
- BROOKLYN, NY157
- PHILADELPHIA, PA144
- LOS ANGELES, CA137
- CHICAGO, IL106
- SAN DIEGO, CA105
- AUSTIN, TX103
- DALLAS, TX100
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pediatric 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 | 1,526 | 8.7% |
| General Practice Dentistry | 1,021 | 5.8% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 922 | 5.3% |
| Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Dentistry | 556 | 3.2% |
| Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) | 83 | 0.5% |
| Dental Clinic/Center | 75 | 0.4% |
| Dental Anesthesiology | 39 | 0.2% |
| Public Health Dentistry | 26 | 0.1% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Dentist.
- Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Dentistry21,241
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)12,884
- Endodontics9,326
- Periodontics8,809
- Prosthodontics4,792
- Public Health Dentistry1,800
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.