2,137 NPI-registered dental providers across Kansas. 92 DSO-affiliated. The 33rd largest dental workforce in the United States.
On local DSO competition, demographics, provider scarcity, and retirement-driven supply, Kansas 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 Kansas locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.
| Rank | DSO brand | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pacific Dental Services | 21 |
| 2 | Lumio Dental | 15 |
| 3 | Benevis | 10 |
| 4 | Heartland Dental | 7 |
| 5 | Aspen Dental | 7 |
| 6 | Hero Dental | 4 |
| 7 | FIRST AVENUE DENTAL, P.A. | 4 |
Highest-density dental markets in Kansas. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.
Top dental specialties practicing in Kansas by provider count.
Kansas 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 2,137 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.
Kansas is the thirty-fifth-most-populous state. The 2,137 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate in two metro anchors: the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Missouri border (the Kansas side covers Johnson and Wyandotte counties) and the Wichita metro in the south-central region. Topeka (state capital) and the Lawrence-Manhattan college corridor serve as secondary markets.
DSO penetration in Kansas runs at approximately 4.3%, the lowest rate in our data set across any state we enrich. Only 92 providers in our Kansas roster carry a DSO affiliation, and no chain crosses a meaningful concentration threshold. The state's top chains in our list are small multi-office state-native practices rather than consolidators.
For supplier reps, Kansas is the most rep-direct state in the country. There are essentially no corporate procurement decision trees of meaningful scale, which means every account is its own buying relationship.
Kansas dental licensing is administered by the Kansas Dental Board. ProviderSignal pulls Kansas license data from the board's public license verification portal on a weekly cadence. The Kansas portal does not publish graduation year, birth year, or license issue date, which means retirement-risk estimation falls back to the license-status field as a wind-down proxy.
Kansas Medicaid dental is administered through KanCare, the state-specific Medicaid program branding. The fee schedule we ingest covers 245 D-codes published as a single KS Medicaid Dental FFS rate table.
The fee schedule refreshes on a roughly quarterly cadence. Our pipeline re-checks the KanCare source every 90 days.
The page surfaces the 33 providers whose license status is inactive as a proxy for retirement- cohort estimation.
Kansas does not have an in-state ADA-accredited dental school. Kansas dentists train primarily at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry and University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry, with a meaningful share relocating to Kansas after graduation.
The dashboard's trigger feed for Kansas concentrates on the Kansas City metro (Kansas side) and the Wichita metro. The unusually low DSO penetration means every provider departure or new-associate landing is rep-direct actionable rather than chain-mediated.
The Kansas data on this page is built from five sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:
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