Dentists in Fairfax County, Virginia

What the shortage designation means here

HRSA designates Fairfax County as a Dental Health Professional Shortage Area on the following bases: Federally Qualified Health Center, HPSA Population. Scores run 0–25, and a higher score means a more severe shortage relative to population.

A designation describes the supply of dentists overall. It does not measure how many of them accept Medicaid — which is the gap this project exists to document. See the statewide dashboard for how Fairfax County compares across the Commonwealth.

How this list was built

Practices are assigned to Fairfax County by geocoding their street address against Census boundaries, not by their mailing town. That distinction matters in Virginia: the Commonwealth has 38 independent cities that sit outside any county, and mailing addresses cross those lines constantly. Fourteen practices with an “Alexandria” address, for example, are physically in Fairfax County.

475 of 507 practices in the registry could be placed this way. The remaining 32 are addresses the Census geocoder could not resolve, and they are left out rather than guessed at — so this count is a floor, not an estimate.

Mailing addresses in this locality include: Alexandria, Annandale, Burke, Centreville, Chantilly, Dunn Loring, Fairfax, Fairfax Station, Falls Church, Ft Belvoir, Great Falls, Herndon, Lorton, Mc Lean, Oak Hill, Reston, Springfield, Vienna.