Pediatric Dentistry: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

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.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For Pediatric Dentistry, 3,110 of 15,052 active records, or 20.7%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. This figure can help describe how records are organized, but it is not a direct count of private practices or independently practicing pediatric dentists. The field is self-reported and may not reflect current ownership, employment, or practice arrangements.

By state

New NPI registrations by year

Counts reflect the year each NPI was first issued, among records still active today. The final year is partial: this data covers through 2026-01-11.

Data notes

• The sole-proprietor field is self-reported by the provider in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice.
• A sole-proprietor count shown as <11 is suppressed: the true value is below 11, which could include zero.
• NPI records are not necessarily unique practicing clinicians or private practices.
• The primary taxonomy is a classification field and may not capture every service or specialty associated with a provider.
• Providers are counted once, by their primary taxonomy code only.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Dissemination file, FOIA-disclosable public data under CMS-6060-N. Aggregated by Hero EMR on 2026-08-03; deactivated NPIs excluded; specialty assigned from the primary taxonomy code (NUCC 25.1). Counts below 11 are suppressed. Individual providers are never published. All provider data pages.

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