NDC COORDINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION FORUM
For Dental Organizations
Every industry overview of the NDC transition mentions dental in one sentence, then moves on.
FDA's 12-digit NDC format applies to every prescriber, including dental practices, but current planning assumes dental will simply adapt to decisions made for the broader pharmacy industry. The NDC Forum is one of the only places treating dental as a stakeholder worth addressing directly.
The Challenge
Dental practices and organizations are routinely folded into standard Rx pharmacy processes built without dental workflows in mind, which means the planning happening across the rest of the healthcare ecosystem may simply assume dental will adapt to whatever gets decided elsewhere. That's a real risk: implementation decisions made for the broader pharmacy industry don't automatically translate cleanly to how dental practices prescribe, order, and manage medication-related data.
Dental medication workflows are frequently treated as a subset of general pharmacy processes, not planned for directly
Technology systems supporting dental practices may not be represented in broader implementation discussions
Without direct engagement, dental-specific considerations get addressed after the fact, if at all
How the Forum Helps
Ensure dental considerations are factored into planning from the start, not retrofitted after decisions are made.
Understand how industry-wide implementation efforts will actually affect dental workflows and the systems that support them.
Get a direct line into cross-sector conversations that would otherwise happen without dental representation.
Connect with the broader care-delivery community, including pharmacies, health systems, and long-term and carceral care settings navigating the same transition.
Look at Any Industry Overview and Count the Mentions
Review the legal advisories, consultancy whitepapers, and technical guides already published on this transition, and dental organizations show up, at most, as one line in a long list of affected stakeholders, never as an audience anyone is actually writing for.
That's not a coincidence. It's exactly the pattern this page opened with: dental gets folded into someone else's plan instead of getting its own.
No vendor, consultancy, or trade publication currently active in this space is producing dental-specific NDC-12 guidance.
The Forum is one of the only places treating dental as a stakeholder worth addressing directly, not a footnote in someone else's list.
The rest of the ecosystem is coordinating. Make sure dental is part of that conversation, not an afterthought to it.
Get Involved
Organizational Membership
Annual Membership
$5,000
per organization
Unlimited participants from your organization
Access to all quarterly forums, strike forces, and other events
Full access to tools, outputs, and shared resources
Per-Participant Access
Virtual
Quarterly Forums
$399
per person
In-Person
Forums
TBD
per person
Attend quarterly forums on a per-person basis, ideal for organizations exploring participation before committing to full membership.
2026 Forum Dates:
September 23
December 8-9
Strike force participation available to organizational members only.