Dental Industry Data & Insights
Guides and analysis on dental practice data, market trends, and the US provider landscape - written for the people buying and using it, not just the people in it.
Market size, consolidation, and staffing depth: how DSO expansion teams use NPI provider data to pick markets - and the blind spots that quietly mislead them.
In Massachusetts there's a specialist for every 2.5 general dentists; in Michigan, one for every 5. A state-by-state and specialty-by-specialty look at where US dental specialists actually concentrate.
Hygienists are the hardest dental role to hire. We ranked every state by NPI-registered hygienists and by how many dentists compete for each one - and the two maps look very different.
Equal-looking regions on a map are rarely equal in opportunity. Here's how to size territories by actual provider counts instead - with real numbers to show why it matters.
If you've been handed a dataset full of "NPI numbers" and nodded along without really knowing what that means, this is for you.