How to check an NDC registration
Dentists are not on the NMC register. The National Dental Commission — the Dental Council of India until March 2026 — keeps the Indian Dentists Register.
Dentistry in India is regulated separately from medicine. The Dental Council of India, constituted under the Dentists Act, 1948, was dissolved with effect from 19 March 2026 and replaced by the National Dental Commission under the National Dental Commission Act, 2023; the commission's own site says communications may still be issued in the DCI's name during the transition. Registration itself is done by state dental councils, and the national body compiles their registers into the Indian Dentists Register.
Profiles on this site record dental registrations under several names — "Dental Council of India", "Indian Dental Council", and the state councils — and all of them are dental, not medical: a BDS or MDS holder's number will not be found on the NMC's Indian Medical Register, and this site's automated register check does not run for them. Dental registrations here are checked by staff or stay marked as supplied.
How to check a dentist's registration
- Search the Indian Dentists RegisterThe commission's site at dciindia.gov.in offers an Indian Dentists Register search by dentist name, reached from the home page. At the time of checking the home page also reported 405,913 registered dentists in the national data.
- Identify the state dental councilA dentist's number is issued by a state dental council — Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and so on — and is unique only within that council. Ask which council issued it; the same digits will exist in other states.
- Try the National Dental RegisterThe commission links to a National Dental Register on the ABDM platform. It is newer than the state registers and may not yet hold every dentist, so a missing record there is not by itself a warning sign.
What a dental registration proves
That the dentist holds a recognised dental qualification and is entered on a state register — the legal condition for practising dentistry. Specialist status (an MDS in orthodontics, say) is a qualification, not a separate registration, and is checked separately on this site.
355 profiles cite the NDC
0 of them (0%) have had that number checked against a register. The rest are recorded as supplied. Counts are read from the live database and refresh hourly.
Number formats seen
| Pattern | Example | Profiles |
|---|---|---|
A-9999 | A-1003 | 220 |
A-999 | A-102 | 87 |
A-99999 | A-10029 | 29 |
A-99 | A-30 | 6 |
A = any letter, 9 = any digit. A number that fits none of these is not necessarily wrong; it is worth looking at twice.
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Questions people ask
- Why can't I find a dentist on the NMC register?
- Because dentists are registered under the Dentists Act with state dental councils, and compiled into the Indian Dentists Register by the National Dental Commission — a different body from the NMC. Search there instead.
- Is the Dental Council of India still the right name?
- The DCI was dissolved on 19 March 2026 and the National Dental Commission took over the same day. Certificates and older listings will carry the DCI name for years; the register they refer to is the same one.
- Are dental registrations on this site verified?
- Only where staff have checked them by hand. The automated worker that verifies medical registrations reads the NMC register, which does not cover dentists, so a dental number here is marked as supplied until a person checks it.
Every profile names the registering body and the number as supplied, and says whether that number has been checked against a register and when. Where it has not, the profile says so.
General information about how registration works in India, read from the sources below on 25 Sep 2026. Not advice about your situation. Errors can be reported through the corrections process.