Designated dental health professional shortage area
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/us/usc/t42/s256f
Title
42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter
CH6A
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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In this subpart, the term “designated dental health professional shortage area” means an area, population group, or facility that is designated by the Secretary as a dental health professional shortage area under section 254e of this title or designated by the applicable State as having a dental health professional shortage.
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 340F, as added Pub. L. 107–251, title IV, § 403, Oct. 26, 2002, 116 Stat. 1660.)
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