1,515 NPI-registered dental providers across Hawaii. 45 DSO-affiliated. The 40th largest dental workforce in the United States.
On local DSO competition, demographics, provider scarcity, and retirement-driven supply, Hawaii positions discount 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 Hawaii locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.
| Rank | DSO brand | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawaii Dental Group | 23 |
| 2 | SOH Partnership of Hawaii | 6 |
| 3 | ORTHODONTIC ASSOCIATES LLC | 3 |
Highest-density dental markets in Hawaii. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.
Top dental specialties practicing in Hawaii by provider count.
Hawaii 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 1,515 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.
Hawaii is the fortieth-most-populous state. The 1,515 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate overwhelmingly on Oahu (Honolulu County), which contains the bulk of the state's population. Secondary markets sit on Maui, the Big Island (Hawaii County), and Kauai.
DSO penetration in Hawaii runs at approximately 3.0%, on the lower end of our data set. Hawaii Dental Group leads the Hawaii chain list with 23 providers, a state-native multi-office practice. The 45 DSO-affiliated providers in HI are concentrated on Oahu, with the neighbor islands dominated by solo and small-group practices.
Hawaii dental licensing is administered by the Hawaii Board of Dentistry under the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) Professional and Vocational Licensing (PVL) Division. ProviderSignal pulls Hawaii license data from the DCCA PVL List Builder on an annual cadence (the portal moved behind a Cloudflare WAF with a per-call captcha quota in May 2026, which makes weekly automated re-scrape uneconomical; List Builder purchases on an annual cycle are the supported refresh path).
The Hawaii dataset includes license number, current status, license issue date, expiration date, and a disciplinary action bifurcation. Address, trade name, and disciplinary-history fields are frozen at the last full Phase 2 snapshot, with license status, issue date, and expiration date refreshing each annual cycle.
Hawaii Medicaid dental is administered through Med- QUEST under the Hawaii Department of Human Services. The fee schedule we ingest covers 169 D-codes split across ten localities, the most granular Medicaid dental fee structure in our data set. The localities combine specialty (General Practice, Pediatric, Orthodontic, Oral Surgery, Endodontic) with geography (Oahu versus Neighbor Islands).
The fee schedule refreshes on a roughly quarterly cadence. Our pipeline re-checks the Med-QUEST source every 90 days.
Retirement risk in Hawaii is computed against the license issue date published by the DCCA PVL. The 405 providers flagged on this page are those whose license tenure places them in the cohort statistically most likely to retire or sell their practice within the next 5 years.
Hawaii does not have an in-state ADA-accredited dental school. Hawaii dentists train at mainland programs (most commonly the West Coast schools) and return to Hawaii for associateships or practice ownership.
The dashboard's trigger feed for Hawaii concentrates on Oahu (Honolulu and the surrounding residential rings), with smaller signal volume on the neighbor islands. The geographic isolation of Hawaii combined with the difficulty of recruiting mainland dentists makes each new-associate landing a higher- confidence trigger event than the equivalent in a mainland state.
The Hawaii data on this page is built from five sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:
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