764 NPI-registered dental providers across Rhode Island. 36 DSO-affiliated. The 47th largest dental workforce in the United States.
On local DSO competition, demographics, provider scarcity, and retirement-driven supply, Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island locations. Canonicalized across legal- entity variations so franchise rollups display as one brand.
| Rank | DSO brand | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aspen Dental | 11 |
Highest-density dental markets in Rhode Island. Pin-drop each metro on the map in the dashboard to scope by 25-mile radius or specialty mix.
Top dental specialties practicing in Rhode Island by provider count.
Rhode Island 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 764 providers above: DSO landscape, regulatory baseline, Medicaid reimbursement, workforce outlook, trigger-event detail, and the data refresh cadence behind every count on this page.
Rhode Island is the smallest state by area and the forty-fourth-most-populous. The 764 dental providers tracked on this page concentrate in the Providence metropolitan area, which dominates the state geographically. Secondary clusters sit in the Newport area and the Westerly/South County coastal region.
DSO penetration in Rhode Island runs at approximately 4.7%, one of the lower rates in our data set. The 36 DSO-affiliated providers in RI are fragmented across small state-native multi-office practices.
Rhode Island dental licensing is administered by the Rhode Island Department of Health Board of Examiners in Dentistry. ProviderSignal pulls Rhode Island license data from the Department of Health's cross-profession licensee CSV download endpoint on a weekly cadence. Dental records are filtered client-side from the broader 138,000+ RI licensee dataset that covers 77 professions in the same file.
A practical fact worth highlighting: the RI dataset publishes street address with 100% coverage on active dental providers, which makes Rhode Island one of the cleanest small-state rosters in our data.
Rhode Island Medicaid dental is administered through the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The fee schedule we ingest covers 273 D-codes published as a single RI Medicaid Dental FFS rate table.
The fee schedule refreshes on a roughly quarterly cadence. Our pipeline re-checks the RI EOHHS source every 90 days.
Retirement risk in Rhode Island is computed against the license issue date published by the RI Department of Health. The 111 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.
Rhode Island does not have an in-state ADA-accredited dental school. Rhode Island dentists train primarily at Boston-area programs and return for associateships or practice ownership.
The dashboard's trigger feed for Rhode Island concentrates almost entirely on the Providence metro. The complete street address coverage makes RI one of the easier small-state markets to build territory coverage for at the office level.
The Rhode Island data on this page is built from five sources, each refreshed on its own cadence:
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