Practices with 10 to 19 staff.
About 8,000 practices across your states have 10 to 19 staff. A practice that size carries the billing, hiring and payroll load your homepage offers to take on, and the owner is still the person who decides.
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Partner Map: Star Dental Partners
Prepared for Lee Crawford | Star Dental Partners | October 2026
As of Oct 6, 2026. Counts from published federal statistics on US companies, dated in the notes at the foot
Star Dental Partners grows by partnering with dental practices, so this page maps those practices rather than buyers. It covers the thirteen states and Washington, D.C. your geographic focus page lists. Each state is counted from a public count of dental practice companies by the number of people the whole company employs. Practices under 20 staff and small groups are shown apart from the larger groups. It says nothing about which practices Star already knows or supports.
Dental practice companies under 20 staff
36,000
Your thirteen states and Washington, D.C. together, 2022.
Of those, practices with 10 to 19 staff
8,000
The larger end of the practices under 20 staff.
Small dental groups, 20 to 99 staff
2,100
They run about 3,200 offices between them.
Offices owned by companies with 100 or more staff
4,200
Offices run by the larger dental companies.
Practices by state
Dental practice companies with paid staff in each state, by the size of the whole company, 2022.
| State | All practice companies | Under 20 staff | Of those, 10 to 19 | 20 to 99 staff | Offices of 100+ staff companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 1,200 | 1,100 | 260 | about 70 | about 90 |
| Texas | 10,000 | 10,000 | 2,000 | 450 | 1,100 |
| Louisiana | 1,500 | 1,400 | 260 | about 90 | 100 |
| Tennessee | 1,900 | 1,800 | 430 | 130 | 200 |
| Alabama | 1,200 | 1,100 | 310 | about 80 | 130 |
| Arkansas | 830 | 770 | 200 | about 40 | about 70 |
| North Carolina | 3,200 | 2,900 | 820 | 240 | 260 |
| South Carolina | 1,500 | 1,400 | 380 | about 90 | 150 |
| Georgia | 3,100 | 2,800 | 690 | 190 | 440 |
| Maryland | 2,400 | 2,200 | 440 | 150 | 110 |
| Mississippi | 790 | 730 | 170 | about 40 | about 50 |
| Florida | 7,500 | 7,100 | 1,400 | 320 | 1,200 |
| Virginia | 2,900 | 2,700 | 610 | 180 | 380 |
| Washington, D.C. | 310 | 290 | about 40 | about 20 | under 10 |
Who decides
The people who usually decide whether a practice joins a support organization.
| Group | Roles |
|---|---|
| Practices under 20 staff | The owner dentist, and a co-owner or the person who runs the business side; the office manager shapes the first conversation |
| Small groups, 20 to 99 staff | The founding or managing dentist, the partners, and a practice administrator or director of operations |
What no public count reaches
Two questions this page cannot answer from a count, said in words rather than shown as numbers.
Which owners are thinking about a transition. The owner's age, a planned retirement or a partner leaving is what usually starts the conversation, and no public count shows it. The named version lists the practices. Which owners are thinking about it shows only in conversation.
Which groups already have a partner. The last column counts offices owned by larger companies, but no public list says which of the smaller practices and small groups have already signed with another support organization.
Three openings
Where the counts point.
Small groups with 20 to 99 staff.
Groups with 20 to 99 staff count about 2,100 across your states, state by state, and run about 3,200 offices between them. Many run more than one office, so one conversation can cover more than one.
Texas and Florida hold the most.
Texas and Florida together hold about 17,000 of the 36,000 practices under 20 staff in your states. A list worked state by state starts where the count is largest.
Denominators, definitions and sources
- Counts are employer firms and their establishments in the federal annual statistics of US businesses, 2022, the newest year published, industry 621210 offices of dentists. A firm is every location under one owner. Staff is paid employees across the whole firm in the mid-March 2022 pay period. Practices with no paid staff are not counted.
- The file withholds some of the largest size classes in some states. The companies and offices with 100 or more staff are therefore the state total less the published classes below 100, so no withheld figure is guessed.
- The states are the thirteen states and Washington, D.C. your geographic focus page lists. Built from published federal statistics, counts banded deliberately. Figures of 100 and over are rounded to two significant figures, figures from 10 to 99 to the nearest ten.
The named version of this page, the actual practices inside a row, is built one row at a time. If you want to walk through a row together, pick a time at cal.com/ecg. Prepared by Ben Beattie, ben@enquirerconsulting.com.
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