Public Health Dentistry
1,800 active US providers register Public Health Dentistry as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 308th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 1223D0001X
- Grouping
- Dental Providers
- Classification
- Dentist
- Specialization
- Dental Public Health
- Active providers
- 1,800
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
The science and art of preventing and controlling dental diseases and promoting dental health through organized community efforts. It is that form of dental practice that serves the community as a patient rather than the individual. It is concerned with the dental health education of the public, with applied dental research, and with the administration of group dental care programs as well as the prevention and control of dental diseases on a community basis.
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 | 250 | |
| Texas | 128 | |
| Florida | 117 | |
| North Carolina | 81 | |
| Michigan | 77 | |
| Massachusetts | 76 | |
| Virginia | 68 | |
| New York | 58 | |
| Illinois | 53 | |
| Georgia | 50 | |
| Arizona | 47 | |
| Tennessee | 46 | |
| Colorado | 44 | |
| Ohio | 44 | |
| Pennsylvania | 44 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,070 of these are people and 730 are organisations, so 41% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2013, and 439 registered in the last five years, 24% 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.
- CHICAGO, IL21
- HOUSTON, TX20
- LOS ANGELES, CA17
- SAN ANTONIO, TX17
- AUSTIN, TX17
- ALBUQUERQUE, NM16
- BOSTON, MA15
- PHOENIX, AZ14
- NEW YORK, NY14
- DALLAS, TX12
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Public Health 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 | 107 | 5.9% |
| General Practice Dentistry | 103 | 5.7% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 28 | 1.6% |
| Dental Clinic/Center | 24 | 1.3% |
| Dental Hygienist | 21 | 1.2% |
| Pediatric Dentistry | 15 | 0.8% |
| Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Dentistry | 7 | 0.4% |
| Dental Assistant | 5 | 0.3% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Dentist.
- Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Dentistry897
- Dental Anesthesiology550
- Orofacial Pain Dentistry252
- 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.