1,753 NPI-registered dental providers across New Mexico. 237 DSO-affiliated. The 35th largest dental workforce in the United States.
On local DSO competition, demographics, provider scarcity, and retirement-driven supply, New Mexico 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 New Mexico locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.
| Rank | DSO brand | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perfect Teeth | 16 |
| 2 | Pacific Dental Services | 15 |
| 3 | TASKER HATCH ROWAN LLC | 13 |
| 4 | FEDE FAMILY DENTISTRY LLC | 11 |
| 5 | 6588 EAST MAIN FARMINGTON LLC | 10 |
| 6 | NEW MEXICO PROFESSIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATES, INC | 9 |
| 7 | DENTAL PARTNERS OF LOMAS | 8 |
| 8 | MB2 Dental | 7 |
Highest-density dental markets in New Mexico. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.
Top dental specialties practicing in New Mexico by provider count.
New Mexico 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 1,753 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.
New Mexico is the thirty-sixth-most-populous state. The 1,753 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate in the Albuquerque metropolitan area in the north-central region, with secondary markets in Las Cruces in the south (near the Texas border), Santa Fe in the north, and the Farmington area in the Four Corners.
DSO penetration in New Mexico runs at approximately 13.5%, on the lower end of our data set. The 237 DSO-affiliated providers in NM are fragmented across smaller state-native multi-office practices rather than concentrated at a single dominant national chain.
New Mexico dental licensing is administered by the New Mexico Board of Dental Health Care. ProviderSignal pulls New Mexico license data from the board's public license verification system via a Salesforce Lightning Aura endpoint on a weekly cadence. The dataset includes license number, current status, license issue date, address, and a disciplinary action flag.
New Mexico Medicaid dental is administered through Centennial Care, the state-specific Medicaid program branding, delivered via managed care organizations. The fee schedule we ingest covers 249 D-codes published as a single NM Medicaid Dental FFS rate table.
The fee schedule refreshes on a roughly quarterly cadence. Our pipeline re-checks the Centennial Care source every 90 days.
Retirement risk in New Mexico is computed against the license issue date published by the NM Board. The 147 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.
New Mexico does not have an in-state ADA-accredited dental school. New Mexico dentists train primarily at out-of-state programs and return for associateships, which makes the state's new-associate inflow more variable than in states with in-state dental schools.
The dashboard's trigger feed for New Mexico concentrates on the Albuquerque metro, with secondary clusters in Las Cruces and Santa Fe.
The New Mexico data on this page is built from five sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:
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