4,422 NPI-registered dental providers across Indiana. 392 DSO-affiliated. The 22nd largest dental workforce in the United States.
We are still building roster and license-history depth for Indiana, so we are not publishing a firm market position here yet. For reference, the public national benchmark for general dental practices is roughly 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 Indiana locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.
| Rank | DSO brand | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heartland Dental | 69 |
| 2 | Aspen Dental | 60 |
| 3 | Lifetime Dental Care of Indiana | 25 |
| 4 | MFDC of Indiana | 24 |
| 5 | EAST 53RD STREET DENTAL-3, PC | 17 |
| 6 | Affordable Dentures | 17 |
| 7 | Tend Dental | 14 |
| 8 | DENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES OF INDIANA | 12 |
Highest-density dental markets in Indiana. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.
Top dental specialties practicing in Indiana by provider count.
Indiana 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 4,422 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.
Indiana is the seventeenth-most-populous state. The 4,422 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate in the Indianapolis metropolitan area (Marion County and the surrounding doughnut counties), with secondary markets in Fort Wayne, Evansville, and South Bend in the north.
The state's dental composition is heavily independent, with solo practitioners dominating outside the Indianapolis metro and a meaningful share of small-group practices inside it.
DSO penetration in Indiana runs at approximately 8.9%, in the middle range of our data set. Heartland Dental leads with 69 providers, followed by Aspen Dental at 60. Indiana's DSO list is moderately concentrated, with Heartland Dental as the dominant national chain and Kool Smiles as a meaningful pediatric-focused secondary presence.
Indiana dental licensing is administered by the Indiana State Board of Dentistry, with public license verification available through the mylicense.in.gov portal. ProviderSignal pulls Indiana license data from the portal on a weekly cadence. The Indiana portal is unusual within the myLicense vendor family in that it has no CAPTCHA or per-session rate limit, making automated ingest meaningfully easier than for neighboring states using the same vendor.
A practical quirk worth knowing: the Indiana license search does not publish street address, graduation year, birth year, or license issue date. The dataset is sparser than most state boards, which means retirement-risk estimation falls back to license status rather than an age-or-tenure proxy.
Indiana Medicaid dental is administered through the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration via the Indiana Health Coverage Programs (IHCP). The fee schedule we ingest covers 227 D-codes published as a single IN Medicaid Dental FFS rate table.
The fee schedule refreshes on a roughly quarterly cadence. Our pipeline re-checks the IHCP source every 90 days, so the reimbursement layer on the dashboard stays aligned with the current published rates within that window.
Retirement risk in Indiana is computed against the license status field rather than an age-or-tenure proxy. The Indiana State Board of Dentistry does not publish graduation year, birth year, or license issue date on the public verification portal. The page surfaces the 5 providers whose license status is inactive as a proxy for retirement-cohort estimation.
Indiana's only ADA-accredited dental school is Indiana University School of Dentistry in Indianapolis, which produces a meaningful share of the state's new-associate inflow each year.
The dashboard's trigger feed for Indiana concentrates on the Indianapolis metro, with secondary clusters in Fort Wayne and Evansville.
The inactive-status flag is the most actionable single trigger in Indiana because the Indiana Board's definition of inactive is essentially equivalent to a declared wind-down.
The Indiana data on this page is built from five sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:
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