Dental market data, quantified.
Live statistics from the ProviderSignal platform. Provider counts and license metrics update in real time from the database. Data source counts reflect the latest pipeline ingest results.
Continuously Monitoring
275,397 US dental providers
Tracking license events, ownership changes, and acquisition signals since March 2026.
Live Provider Metrics
Dental Providers Tracked
Total dental providers in the ProviderSignal database, sourced from the CMS NPI/NPPES registry. Includes general dentists, oral surgeons, orthodontists, periodontists, endodontists, prosthodontists, and pediatric dentists across all 50 states.
7,192
Triggers Fired in the Last 30 Days
Practice-level changes detected by the weekly NPPES delta and DSO clustering: new associates added, ownership transitions, DSO acquisitions, practice expansions, and providers moving between practices. Each trigger is a sales conversation in progress; reps and biz-dev teams act on them within days, not months.
DSO-Affiliated Practices
Practices flagged as DSO-affiliated by the four-signal entity-resolution pipeline (brand match + multi-location org + shared phone billing + address cascade). Supplier reps use the flag to route procurement conversations: rep-direct for independents, national accounts for chains.
Data Coverage
140,068
Enriched License Records
Provider records that carry deep state-board enrichment beyond the NPPES baseline: license number, status, expiration, issue date, disciplinary history, anesthesia and sedation permits, and graduation data. Sourced from 41 state board feeds (including DC).
13,060
Dental HPSA Designations
HRSA-designated Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas across all 50 states, DC, and US territories. Practices in HPSAs qualify for loan repayment, Medicare bonuses, and J-1 visa waivers: a buying signal for new-graduate placement and equipment financing reps.
33,772
Census ZIP Demographics
ZIP Code Tabulation Areas with population, median income, median age, and age distribution from the Census American Community Survey (2022 5-year estimates).
150
Data Sources Monitored
Government and commercial data sources tracked by the automated pipeline orchestrator. Each source has defined freshness thresholds and automatic refresh on stale data.
1,346
Grant Opportunities
Active federal grant and contract opportunities from Grants.gov and SAM.gov related to dental care, oral health, and community health center funding.
1,938
NPDB State/Year Rows
Aggregate malpractice and adverse action statistics by state and year from the National Practitioner Data Bank.
83,256
OIG LEIE Federal Exclusions
Individuals and entities on the HHS Office of Inspector General List of Excluded Individuals and Entities. Cross-vertical compliance signal refreshed monthly from oig.hhs.gov. Covers all healthcare specialties, not just dental.
Methodology & Sources
Provider counts are queried live from the ProviderSignal PostgreSQL database. The provider dataset is sourced from the CMS NPI/NPPES bulk download file, filtered to dental taxonomy codes. License enrichment data comes from 41 state dental boards (including DC) on cadences ranging from daily diff to weekly snapshot. See the Data Sources page for per-state methodology.
Trigger events are derived from the weekly NPPES delta plus practice-level clustering: new associates appearing at an existing billing address, providers disappearing from one cluster and reappearing in another, organization name changes that flip a practice into DSO affiliation. DSO-affiliated counts are computed by a four-signal entity-resolution pipeline (brand match + multi-location org + shared phone billing + address cascade) with per-signal confidence stored in the dso_signals JSONB column. HPSA designations are from the HRSA data warehouse. Census demographics are from the American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (2022).
All data refreshes are managed by an automated pipeline orchestrator. Source freshness is tracked in the data_source_status table. See the Data Sources page for detailed methodology on each source.