DentalNPI
Choosing a dentist from records you can check yourself
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Most dentist finders rank by advertising spend. DentalNPI uses federal records only: NPI and specialty from NPPES, Medicare enrolment, industry payments, and whether the practice sits in a dental shortage area. The scope is narrow on purpose — the top ten per specialty in each state — so every page has enough worth reading.
Design
This is health information, so the page has to read as trustworthy before it reads as pretty: a serif for headings and body, a monospace for NPI numbers and sources, a paper-coloured ground and a deep navy call button. Every data tile names its source in the corner (NPPES, CMS, HRSA) and stale records carry an amber warning, so readers always know where a number came from and how fresh it is.
A dentist's profile
Features
By state and specialty
51 states, 14 dental specialties by official taxonomy, and state × specialty pages.
Shortage areas
Practices are matched against HRSA dental HPSAs; each state has a page for dentists serving shortage areas.
Medicaid by state
Each state's dental Medicaid programme summarised for adults and children, with Medicare-enrolled dentists listed.
Workforce snapshots
Every state and specialty gets aggregates: density per population, median years in practice, MIPS, Open Payments.
Search by name, NPI, city or ZIP
One search box with fuzzy matching via pg_trgm.
Data-led articles
A 50-state HPSA map, workforce density, Open Payments records — with an author, a review date and a published AI policy.
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