818 NPI-registered dental providers across Alaska. 28 DSO-affiliated. The 46th largest dental workforce in the United States.
On local DSO competition, demographics, provider scarcity, and retirement-driven supply, Alaska positions average against the public national benchmark for general dental practices (2.5-5x EBITDA, 65-85% of collections).
Market-attractiveness positioning vs the public national benchmark, derived from local competition, demographics, and consolidation. Not a transaction comp and not a practice-specific valuation. Apply to the practice's own normalized financials. Benchmark ranges are public (Levin, FOCUS, BizBuySell).
Largest dental support organizations ranked by provider count across Alaska locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.
| Rank | DSO brand | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SOUTH EAST ALASKA REGIONAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM | 13 |
| 2 | SOUTHEAST ALASKA REGIONAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM | 11 |
Highest-density dental markets in Alaska. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.
Top dental specialties practicing in Alaska by provider count.
Alaska dental practices grouped by size bucket. Solo practitioners are typically the highest acquisition value for brokers and DSO biz dev teams; large groups carry the highest-volume supply-rep accounts.
Structural context for the 818 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.
Alaska is the forty-ninth-most-populous state but geographically the largest by a wide margin. The 818 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate in the Anchorage metropolitan area, which contains roughly half the state's population. Secondary markets sit in the Fairbanks interior, the Mat-Su Valley (Wasilla, Palmer), and the Southeast Panhandle (Juneau, Ketchikan).
DSO penetration in Alaska runs at approximately 3.4%, in the upper-middle range of our data set, with 28 DSO-affiliated providers concentrated at the top of the chain rankings. SOUTH EAST ALASKA REGIONAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM leads the Alaska chain list with 13 providers, which is unusual: it reflects an Alaska Native tribal health corporation rather than a conventional retail DSO. The top of the Alaska chain list is dominated by tribal-health and regional-health corporation dental programs, which is structurally different from any other state in our data.
Alaska dental licensing is administered by the Alaska Board of Dental Examiners under the Alaska Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing. ProviderSignal pulls Alaska license data from the division's public license verification portal on a weekly cadence.
Alaska Medicaid dental is administered through the Alaska Department of Health Division of Health Care Services. The fee schedule we ingest covers 221 D-codes published as a single AK Medicaid Dental FFS rate table. Alaska's Medicaid dental coverage is comparatively broad, reflecting the limited private dental insurance penetration in the state and the higher share of Medicaid-covered patients.
The fee schedule refreshes on a roughly quarterly cadence. Our pipeline re-checks the Alaska Medicaid source every 90 days.
The page surfaces the 0 providers whose license status is inactive as a proxy for retirement- cohort estimation. Alaska does not have an in-state ADA-accredited dental school. Alaska dentists train primarily through the WWAMI regional partnership program at out-of-state schools and return to Alaska for associateships or tribal-health-corporation positions.
The dashboard's trigger feed for Alaska concentrates on the Anchorage metro and the Fairbanks interior. The tribal-health-corporation footprint adds a distinct procurement segment that is structurally different from the conventional retail- dental DSO segment found in most states.
The Alaska data on this page is built from five sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:
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