State market intelligence

Nevada Dental Market

2,551 NPI-registered dental providers across Nevada. 343 DSO-affiliated. The 31st largest dental workforce in the United States.

Key counters

2,551
Total dental providers in Nevada
343
DSO-affiliated (~13.4% of workforce)
1,088
Licenses expiring in next 12 months
286
Approaching retirement
Market Multiple Context
Average positioningvs the national benchmark

On local DSO competition, demographics, provider scarcity, and retirement-driven supply, Nevada positions average against the public national benchmark for general dental practices (2.5-5x EBITDA, 65-85% of collections).

DSO share (active dentists)
9.8%
Median income
$78,891
Provider density
3.85/10k
Retirement supply
10.3%

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).

Top DSOs operating in Nevada

Largest dental support organizations ranked by provider count across Nevada locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.

RankDSO brandProviders
1Pacific Dental Services82
2ARTISTIC ORTHODONTICS, INC20
3NEVADA DENTAL PROFESSIONAL, QUIRT, KRUYER, P.C.20
4MODERN DENTAL SPECIALIST, LLC12
5MB2 Dental12
6WEISS DENTAL & ORTHODONTICS PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION12
7ELLSWORTH COX NV SPECIALTY DENTAL SERVICES, PLLC7
8NEVADA DENTAL SPECIALISTS, LLC7

Top Nevada metros by provider count

Highest-density dental markets in Nevada. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.

Las Vegas
1,351 providers
Reno
376 providers
Henderson
309 providers
Sparks
120 providers
North Las Vegas
93 providers
Nellis Afb
58 providers
Carson City
55 providers
Elko
27 providers
Fallon
22 providers
Minden
18 providers

Specialty mix

Top dental specialties practicing in Nevada by provider count.

General Dentist
1,636
Orthodontics
265
Pediatric Dentist
197
Dental Hygienist
113
Oral Surgery
105
Dental Assistant
99

Practice composition

Nevada 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.

1,149
Solo practices
238
Small groups (2-3)
158
Medium groups (4-10)
175
Large groups (11+)

Nevada dental market deep dive

Structural context for the 2,551 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.

Nevada dental market overview

Nevada is the thirty-second-most-populous state but one of the fastest-growing dental markets in the country, driven by sustained population inflow into the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The 2,551 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate overwhelmingly in Clark County (Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Boulder City), with a secondary cluster in the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area on the California border.

Nevada DSO landscape

DSO penetration in Nevada runs at approximately 13.4%. The 343 DSO-affiliated providers in NV cluster at the top of the chain list. What makes Nevada distinctive is that the top of the chain rankings is dominated by single-specialty orthodontic practices rather than general-dentistry chains, which is the inverse of most state DSO landscapes.

Nevada dental licensure and regulatory snapshot

Nevada dental licensing is administered by the Nevada State Board of Dental Examiners. ProviderSignal pulls Nevada license data from the board's public license verification portal on a weekly cadence. The Nevada portal does not publish graduation year, birth year, or license issue date directly, which means retirement-risk estimation falls back to license status as a wind-down proxy.

Nevada Medicaid reimbursement

Nevada Medicaid dental is administered through the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services Division of Health Care Financing and Policy. The fee schedule we ingest covers 384 D-codes published as a single NV Medicaid Dental FFS rate table, one of the broader Medicaid dental schedules in our data set.

The fee schedule refreshes on a roughly quarterly cadence. Our pipeline re-checks the Nevada Medicaid source every 90 days.

Nevada dental workforce outlook and retirement risk

The page surfaces the 243 providers whose license status is inactive as a proxy for retirement- cohort estimation. Nevada's population profile combined with the relatively young Las Vegas dental workforce makes the inactive-status signal a more useful retirement indicator than the absolute inactive count alone suggests.

Nevada's only ADA-accredited dental school is the UNLV School of Dental Medicine in Las Vegas. The school produces a modest graduate cohort relative to the state's rapid practice expansion, which is part of why Nevada is a meaningful destination for out-of-state dental school graduates seeking associateships.

What is actionable in Nevada right now

The dashboard's trigger feed for Nevada concentrates almost entirely on the Las Vegas metropolitan area, with a smaller secondary cluster in Reno-Sparks. New-associate landings cluster heavily in the Las Vegas suburbs, where in-migration drives faster practice expansion than UNLV SDM alone can supply.

How ProviderSignal tracks Nevada

The Nevada data on this page is built from five sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:

  • NPPES (the federal NPI registry): weekly.
  • Nevada State Board of Dental Examiners license verification roster: weekly.
  • Nevada Medicaid dental fee schedule: quarterly (90-day rolling re-check).
  • CMS Medicare Part B Provider Utilization and Payment data: annually.
  • OIG LEIE federal exclusion list: monthly.

Frequently asked

How many dentists practice in Nevada?
ProviderSignal tracks 2,551 NPI-registered dental providers in Nevada, including general dentists, specialists, and hygienists. 1,250 hold an active license with the Nevada dental board.
How many DSO-affiliated practices are in Nevada?
343 providers in Nevada practice at DSO-affiliated locations, roughly 13.4% of the state's total dental workforce. ProviderSignal canonicalizes 200+ DSO brands across state-by-state legal-entity variations so affiliated providers roll up to one brand identity.
How current is the Nevada dental data?
NPI registrations refresh weekly. Nevada dental board data refreshes on the cadence the board itself publishes. Most boards refresh weekly, some quarterly. CMS Medicare Part B billing covers the most recent 11 years. Federal OIG exclusion records refresh monthly.
Where do I get provider-level data for Nevada?
The aggregate counts on this page are free and public. Provider-level access (names, NPIs, license numbers, expiration dates, practice addresses, DSO affiliations, CMS billing history, and trigger-event alerts) requires a ProviderSignal subscription. Start a free 7-day trial to access the Nevada territory view in the dashboard.

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Nevada Medicaid dental fee schedule
What Nevada Medicaid pays for cleanings, fillings, crowns, and extractions, with the national rank and any adult-vs-pediatric split.

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