557 NPI-registered dental providers across North Dakota. 42 DSO-affiliated. The 50th largest dental workforce in the United States.
On local DSO competition, demographics, provider scarcity, and retirement-driven supply, North Dakota positions premium 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 North Dakota locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.
| Rank | DSO brand | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FACE AND JAW SURGEONS PC | 15 |
| 2 | PRAIRIE ROSE FAMILY DENTISTS | 5 |
| 3 | MCDONALD DENTAL GROUP | 3 |
Highest-density dental markets in North Dakota. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.
Top dental specialties practicing in North Dakota by provider count.
North Dakota 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 557 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.
North Dakota is the forty-seventh-most-populous state. The 557 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate in the Fargo metropolitan area in the east (which extends across the Red River into Moorhead, Minnesota), the Bismarck metro (state capital) in the south-central region, and the Grand Forks area (home of UND) in the northeast.
DSO penetration in North Dakota runs at approximately 7.5%, in the upper-middle range of our data set for small states. The 42 DSO-affiliated providers in ND are fragmented across small multi-office practices, including a notable oral-surgery-focused entity at the top of the chain list (unusual; most state DSO landscapes are dominated by general dentistry).
North Dakota dental licensing is administered by the North Dakota State Board of Dental Examiners. ProviderSignal pulls North Dakota license data from the board's public license verification portal on a weekly cadence.
North Dakota Medicaid dental is administered through the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services. The fee schedule we ingest covers 320 D-codes split across two age-based localities: ND Medicaid Dental Adult and ND Medicaid Dental Child.
The fee schedule refreshes on a roughly quarterly cadence. Our pipeline re-checks the ND DHHS source every 90 days.
Retirement risk in North Dakota is computed against the license issue date published by the ND Board. The 54 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.
North Dakota does not have an in-state ADA-accredited dental school. North Dakota dentists train primarily at University of Minnesota or University of Nebraska Medical Center and return to North Dakota for associateships.
The dashboard's trigger feed for North Dakota concentrates on the Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Forks metros.
The North Dakota data on this page is built from five sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:
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