Texas Dental Association
Non-profit OrganizationsTexas, United States51-200 Employees
The Texas Dental Association (TDA) is a nonprofit professional organization for dentists in Texas, founded in 1871 and based in Austin. It is the third-largest state dental association in the United States, with more than 9,000 members and 26 component dental societies organized into four divisions across the state. The association is governed by a Board of Directors (15 voting members plus two non-voting ex officio) and a House of Delegates with delegates representing component societies and the three Texas dental schools. The central office in Austin employs a staff of 26 professionals, and the organization operates within a tri-partite framework with the American Dental Association as its national representative and its component societies at the local level. Its official publication is the Texas Dental Journal, published since 1883, and a recent development includes the May 2026 appointment of Dr. Georgia Mitchell to the board of directors.