586 NPI-registered dental providers across Delaware. 42 DSO-affiliated. The 49th largest dental workforce in the United States.
On local DSO competition, demographics, provider scarcity, and retirement-driven supply, Delaware 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 Delaware locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.
| Rank | DSO brand | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FREEDOM DENTAL CARE DE LLC | 35 |
Highest-density dental markets in Delaware. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.
Top dental specialties practicing in Delaware by provider count.
Delaware 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 586 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.
Delaware is the forty-fifth-most-populous state. The 586 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate in the Wilmington-Newark area in New Castle County (the northern third of the state, functionally part of the Philadelphia metro economy), with secondary clusters in Dover (the state capital) and the beach communities of Sussex County (Lewes, Rehoboth Beach).
DSO penetration in Delaware runs at approximately 7.2%, in the middle range of our data set. The Delaware chain list is dominated by a single state-native multi-office practice (FREEDOM DENTAL CARE DE LLC at 35 providers), with the rest of the chain list trailing far behind. The 42 DSO-affiliated providers in DE are concentrated at the very top, with essentially no long tail of regional or national chains.
Delaware dental licensing is administered by the Delaware Board of Dentistry and Dental Hygiene under the Delaware Division of Professional Regulation. ProviderSignal pulls Delaware license data from the division's public license verification portal on a weekly cadence.
Delaware Medicaid dental is administered through the Delaware Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance. The fee schedule we ingest covers 216 D-codes published as a single DE Medicaid Dental FFS rate table.
The fee schedule refreshes on a roughly quarterly cadence. Our pipeline re-checks the DMMA source every 90 days.
The page surfaces the 1 providers whose license status is inactive as a proxy for retirement- cohort estimation.
Delaware does not have an in-state ADA-accredited dental school. Delaware dentists train primarily at Philadelphia-area programs (UPenn, Temple) and the University of Maryland and return to Delaware for associateships.
The dashboard's trigger feed for Delaware concentrates on the Wilmington-Newark area, with a secondary cluster in the Sussex County beach communities.
The Delaware data on this page is built from five sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:
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