Health Care

Dental Group Practice

Any group of three or more full-time dentists, organized in a legally recognized entity for the provision of dental care, sharing space, equipment, personnel and records for both patient care and business management, and who have a predetermined arrangement for the distribution of income.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Any group of three or more full-time dentists, organized in a legally recognized entity for the provision of dental care, sharing space, equipment, personnel and records for both patient care and business management, and who have a predetermined arrangement for the distribution of income.

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Dental Group Practices
  • Group Practice, Dental
  • Group Practices, Dental
  • Practice, Dental Group
  • Practices, Dental Group

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

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

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Indexing Annotation

coord IM with specific dent specialty (IM); do not confuse with PARTNERSHIP PRACTICE, DENTAL but do not interpret: use word of text; DF: GROUP PRACTICE DENT

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History Note

67

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Previous Indexing

  • Dentistry (1966)
  • Group Practice (1966)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. N04w.452.758.244.369

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NLM Classification

WU 79

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Dental Group Practice. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006124. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006124
  2. Dental Group Practice. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70450116