Deal sourcing beyond the broker network
Everyone sees the same listed practices. The edge is knowing the unlisted market: who's strong, where, and what it's worth watching.
Commercial lens
What you can do
Turn the market into a working list.
- Screen metros by saturation, demographics and DSO share
- Build watchlists of acquisition-profile practices
- Back a thesis with market data owners can't dispute
The intelligence behind the workflow
Evidence close to the action.
These signals are collected, normalized, time-layered and designed to be inspected, filtered and combined. Website-derived flags mean the clinic says so on its site; derived views show how multiple dimensions intersect; unknown remains distinct from no.
Saturation and market-potential scoring on 107K regions
93% of the market is independent — profiled and filterable
Dated snapshots to track market movement
Network intelligence
Deal sourcing beyond the broker network.
The unbranded 3-to-10-location groups — the ones that never call themselves a DSO and sit in no directory — are exactly where proprietary deal flow lives. The evidence graph surfaces operators at that scale before they are marketed, and shows which “fragmented” markets have quietly consolidated already.
Figures from the published network graph, August 2026 snapshot — denominators and method on the linked pages.
Bounded product proof
From a question to clinics you can inspect.
PE and broker sample · bounded export
Owner-role reputation review
Which rows with a recorded Owner or Founder role have the largest review counts in this export?
- Owner/founder role recorded
- Review count descending
- National bounded export
Top 3 of 2,417 exact-role matches by committed review count
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Stillwater Dental
Bangor, ME · Domain recorded
5.0 rating · 6,201 reviews
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Charlotte Dentistry
Charlotte, NC · Domain recorded
4.8 rating · 4,731 reviews
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Precision Dental Care 5 Llc
Chicago, IL · Domain recorded
4.9 rating · 4,374 reviews
Evidence and limits
Export created . Field observation timestamps are unavailable; the export date is not an observation date.
Unknown: A recorded role does not prove independence, seller intent, financial quality or acquisition fit; DSO affiliation is unavailable.
Reproduce this sample
person_job_title exactly and case-sensitively equals one of: Owner | Founder | Owner, DDS | Owner, DMD; order by review_count descending, then source line ascending; display first three
Questions
Before you build the list.
How do I source dental practice deals outside broker listings?
93% of the US dental market is independent. DentalCensus profiles those unlisted practices — size, reputation, services, digital maturity — so you can build watchlists of acquisition-profile targets instead of competing over the same brokered deals.
How do I screen dental markets for saturation?
Saturation and market-potential scores cover 107K US regions, down to census-tract level, alongside demographics (population, median income, 65+ share) and DSO share per metro. Screen 723 metros before going practice-by-practice.
How current is the data for tracking market movement?
Collection is rolling and incremental, while published numbers remain dated snapshots — history is never silently rewritten, so you can track how a market moved between snapshots.
Can I back an investment thesis with this data?
Every metric ships with a methodology: source, snapshot date, N and definitions. Numbers are computed against stated denominators, which makes them defensible in an IC memo or a conversation with an owner.