Health Care

Dental Licensure

The granting of a license to practice dentistry.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

The granting of a license to practice dentistry.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Licensure, Dental
  • Dental Licensures
  • Licensures, Dental

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Aspects Covered

8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

by the state; differentiate from ACCREDITATION (by the profession); various boards can go here; specify geographic location

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Numbers

  1. N03w.706.110w.510w.180
  2. N05.700.200w.450w.300

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NLM Classification

WU 40

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Dental Licensure. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008005. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008005
  2. Dental Licensure. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70472139