1,483 NPI-registered dental providers across Maine. 56 DSO-affiliated. The 41st largest dental workforce in the United States.
On local DSO competition, demographics, provider scarcity, and retirement-driven supply, Maine 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 Maine locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.
| Rank | DSO brand | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aspen Dental | 18 |
| 2 | MAINE DENTAL GROUP, P.C. | 7 |
| 3 | MAINELY KIDS & TEENS, LLC | 6 |
Highest-density dental markets in Maine. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.
Top dental specialties practicing in Maine by provider count.
Maine 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 1,483 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.
Maine is the forty-second-most-populous state. The 1,483 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate in the Portland metropolitan area on the southern coast, with secondary markets in Bangor in the interior, Lewiston-Auburn, and the coastal York-Kennebunk area.
DSO penetration in Maine runs at approximately 3.8%, on the lower end of our data set. The 56 DSO-affiliated providers in ME are fragmented across small state-native multi-office practices, with no chain crossing a meaningful concentration threshold. For supplier reps, Maine is essentially a rep-direct market.
Maine dental licensing is administered by the Maine Board of Dental Practice, with public license data accessible through the Maine Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation Automated Licensing Management System (ALMS). ProviderSignal pulls Maine license data via the ALMS session-bound CSV export on a weekly cadence. The dataset includes license number, current status, expiration date, and city and zip on most active dentists.
A practical fact worth knowing: Maine's ALMS dataset does not publish street address, phone, or email on the public roster. Street address coverage on the Maine workforce comes primarily from NPPES.
Maine Medicaid dental is administered through the MaineCare Services division of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Our Medicaid fee schedule ingest for Maine is currently deferred pending publication of the current rate file by DHHS. Maine's reimbursement layer will populate once the DHHS Medicaid dental fee schedule is re-published in a machine-readable format.
Retirement risk in Maine is computed against the license status field rather than an age-or-tenure proxy. The page surfaces the 21 providers whose license status is inactive as a proxy for retirement-cohort estimation.
Maine does not have an in-state ADA-accredited dental school. Maine dentists train at out-of-state programs (Boston-area schools and the broader New England academic medicine network) and return to Maine for associateships or practice ownership.
The dashboard's trigger feed for Maine concentrates on the Portland metro and the Bangor area. The relatively older Maine dental workforce combined with limited in-state dental school inflow makes the inactive-status flag a meaningful retire- or-sell signal for brokers covering New England.
The Maine data on this page is built from four sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:
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