US Dental Deserts: Access & Affordability Atlas 2026 (county-level, 3,144 counties)

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Version 2.0 (23 August 2026, Atlas v2 layer): adds column state_pct_dentists_billing_medicaid_2023_2024 = share of active dentists (NPPES Aug 2026, taxonomy 1223*) with at least one published Medicaid dental cell in HHS T-MSIS Medicaid Provider Spending v2026-02-09 (>= 12 claim lines and 12 patients) in 2023-2024; national 53,926 of 269,978 (20.0%). data_levels adds medicaid_billing=state. Same record on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22062646 (concept 10.5281/zenodo.21707528). County-level atlas of dental care access and affordability in the United States, 2026. One row per US county (3,144 rows, 21 columns). It joins four things usually only available separately: HRSA dental HPSA designations (geographic, population and facility types, plus max score; snapshot of 30 July 2026); median household income (Census ACS 5-year 2024, table B19013); state-level dental prices (restorative cost index and average single-implant price, from the US Dental Cost Index); state Medicaid adult dental benefit level and the share of dentists accepting Medicaid. 288 counties across 18 states are flagged as dental deserts (largest concentrations: Virginia 59, Illinois 42, Pennsylvania 31, Florida 30, Colorado 25, Montana 24); 2,601 counties carry at least one dental HPSA designation. Every row carries its own sources and data_levels fields so the reader can see which value was measured at county level (HPSA, income) and which was inherited from the state (prices, Medicaid). Interactive atlas and county lookup: https://realdentalcosts.com/en/dental-deserts-atlas/ | Methodology and source attribution: https://realdentalcosts.com/en/methodology/ | Companion state-level price index: https://realdentalcosts.com/en/us-dental-cost-index/ | Concept DOI (always resolves to the current version): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21707528 | License: CC BY 4.0, attribute to Real Dental Costs (realdentalcosts.com). Market and pricing research, not clinical advice.

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