Everyone has an opinion about DSOs taking over. Almost nobody has counted. This counts — every registered dental practice location within driving distance of your ZIP, sorted into independent, group-owned and safety-net, with the national operators that are already there named.
Built from the CMS NPPES registry, August 2026. A practice location is an active organisation NPI carrying a dental taxonomy. Operators are identified by declared Parent Organization LBN and TIN, by subpart status, and by normalised organisation name with brand-prefix merging. FQHCs, hospitals, universities, tribal health organisations and government clinics are counted separately and are not treated as group consolidation. Catchments use the same population-based trade area as our other tools, at least five miles. These figures are a floor. Several large DSOs operate through per-location affiliated professional corporations with unrelated names and register no group-level organisation NPI at all, so they do not appear here. Whatever this says, your market is at least this consolidated and probably more.