2,765 NPI-registered dental providers across Louisiana. 164 DSO-affiliated. The 30th largest dental workforce in the United States.
On local DSO competition, demographics, provider scarcity, and retirement-driven supply, Louisiana 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 Louisiana locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.
| Rank | DSO brand | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heartland Dental | 28 |
| 2 | Pacific Dental Services | 20 |
| 3 | Aspen Dental | 17 |
| 4 | Affordable Dentures | 14 |
| 5 | MB2 Dental | 10 |
| 6 | ACADIA HEALTH, LLC | 8 |
| 7 | Lit Smiles | 6 |
| 8 | SHANE TEWIS, DDS OF LOUISIANA, A PROFESSIONAL DENTAL LLC | 5 |
Highest-density dental markets in Louisiana. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.
Top dental specialties practicing in Louisiana by provider count.
Louisiana 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 2,765 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.
Louisiana is the twenty-fifth-most-populous state. The 2,765 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate in three main metros: the New Orleans metropolitan area on the Mississippi River delta, the Baton Rouge metro in the state capital region, and the Shreveport-Bossier area in the northwest. Lafayette and Lake Charles serve as secondary markets in southwest Louisiana.
DSO penetration in Louisiana runs at approximately 5.9%, in the middle range of our data set. Heartland Dental leads the Louisiana chain list with 28 providers. The 164 DSO-affiliated providers in LA are concentrated at the top of the rankings, with a state-native multi-office practice leading and a Heartland Dental footprint as the largest national- chain presence.
Louisiana dental licensing is administered by the Louisiana State Board of Dentistry (LSBD). ProviderSignal pulls Louisiana license data from the board's public license verification portal on a weekly cadence. The dataset includes license number, current status, license issue date, address, and disciplinary action history.
Louisiana Medicaid dental is administered through the Louisiana Department of Health, with delivery split across managed care plans for adult and EPSDT pediatric services. The fee schedule we ingest covers 128 D-codes split across two localities: LA Medicaid Adult Waiver and LA Medicaid EPSDT Pediatric.
The fee schedule refreshes on a roughly quarterly cadence. Our pipeline re-checks the Louisiana Medicaid source every 90 days.
Retirement risk in Louisiana is computed against the License First Issued date published by LSBD. The 205 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.
Louisiana's only ADA-accredited dental school is the LSU Health Sciences Center School of Dentistry in New Orleans, which supplies the bulk of the in-state new-associate inflow.
The dashboard's trigger feed for Louisiana concentrates on the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport metros.
The Louisiana data on this page is built from five sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:
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