The California Dental Practice Map

Most dentists have no idea how many practices sit inside a two-mile radius of their own operatory. Buyers do. So do the DSOs. When a practice comes to market in California, the price it gets is set by what else a buyer could walk into that week — and by how many doors are within commuting distance of the associate who wants his own place.

This map is that picture, for the whole state. It is built from the public NPI registry, geocoded address by address, and it covers every county from San Diego to Del Norte. It is not a listings page. Nothing here is for sale.

If your pin is on this map and you have started thinking about an exit — in one year or in five — the useful first step is a valuation, not a listing agreement. Knowing the number changes how you run the practice between now and the day you sell it.

The gold pins are practices this brokerage sold and closed. Practice location only; the doctors who sold them are not named, and no pin sits on a street address.

Started in San Diego. Now statewide. The inset zooms the home cluster so it reads on a phone.

This is a working record, not a complete career history. Older transactions whose addresses are not documented are not plotted, because plotting them would mean guessing. What is on the map is what can be evidenced.