Background. More than 28 million people in the United States visited their dentists but not a physician in 2018, yet only a few states allow dentists to administer vaccines to patients, and those vaccines are limited to influenza, COVID-19, and human papillomavirus.

Authors. Raghu D. Darisi, MPH; Brianna Hillier, DMD; Audrey J. Buckland, MSPH; Emily Harris, MPH; Jeffrey R. Holzberg, MD, MSc