Five surgeries on one Salford site, implants and treatment under sedation alongside general dentistry
Care regulator register + practice website
Use cases
Find dental practices, practice owners and decision makers
Most of them are owner-operated single sites with no marketing team. Search by surgeries, region, NHS contract or ownership, and Causo reads the GDC register, CQC records, NHS dental contract lists and Companies House filings practice by practice, then shows you the evidence behind every match.
Run your first search135,665 dental practice establishments in the US
How to find dental practices by size, region or NHS contract
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Four surgeries, mixed NHS and private list, six clinicians named on the team page
Care regulator register + practice website
Four surgeries over two floors in Ashton, fully private with an in-house hygiene team
Care regulator register + Companies House
Illustrative example. The source types are the ones Causo genuinely reads for this market.
Where the data on dental practices comes from
- General Dental Council registerEvery dentist, hygienist and therapist entitled to practise, with registration date and status
- CQC, Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, RQIARegistered dental locations, the registered manager and inspection reports
- NHS Business Services Authority dental contract listsWhich practices hold NHS contracts, and the activity behind them
- Companies HouseOwning company, directors, group structure, filed accounts and changes of control
- ADA and US state dental boardsLicensed dentists, practice locations and licence status across the United States
- Indeed, Greenhouse, LeverAssociate dentist, hygienist and practice manager vacancies as a timing signal
- Google Business Profiles and YelpOpening hours, site photos, review volume and patient catchment
- Dun & BradstreetFirmographics and corporate linkage where available
- British Dental Association, Denplan and specialist society directoriesMembership, plan provider and clinical specialism
- Plus many moreNo fixed provider list. If the answer lives somewhere else, the agents read that instead.
Ask anything about a dental practice
Every result is a starting point, not an endpoint. Ask a follow-up about any practice on your list in plain English and the agents go back out and read for it, then answer with the sources they used.
How many surgeries do they actually have?
AnswerFive at the main site and two at the second practice, and only the main site is equipped for treatment under sedation.
SourcesCare regulator register + the practice’s own site
Do they take NHS patients or are they fully private?
AnswerMixed. The practice holds an NHS contract, and the fee page shows a private plan running alongside it for everything not covered.
SourcesNHS dental contract list + the practice’s fee page
Who owns the practice, and has that changed recently?
AnswerThe principal dentist owns it through a limited company incorporated in 2004. A second director was appointed in March, and no corporate group appears anywhere in the filing history.
SourcesCompanies House + GDC register
Why dental practices are missing from B2B databases
7,402of England’s 10,360 registered dental practices are single-location providersCare Quality Commission
16%of US dentists are affiliated with a dental support organizationADA Health Policy Institute, 2024
Contact databases are assembled from what companies publish about themselves: professional profiles, funding rounds, tech stacks, hiring pages. A dental practice is the opposite kind of business. Its patients come from the surrounding few miles, its reputation is word of mouth and a listing on a map, and the company behind the door is very often a small limited company owned by the principal dentist, who is also chair-side four days a week. That business model produces almost none of the web signals a profile-derived database collects. What it does produce is a clinical registration, a named registered manager, a General Dental Council number for every clinician on the premises, filed accounts and, where there is NHS work, a published contract. Regulators publish the first three, Companies House publishes the fourth and the NHS publishes the fifth, and none of those are where a contact database looks.
Figures as of August 2026.
Apollo vs ZoomInfo vs Causo for dental practice leads
| Apollo / ZoomInfo | Buying a list | Causo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-site practices with no marketing team | Largely absent | Absent | Found on the clinical register |
| Filtering on "four or more surgeries" | No such field | No such field | Expressed in plain English |
| Telling an independent group from a corporate brand | Rarely distinguished | Not mapped | Read from Companies House and the register |
| Reaching the principal dentist or practice owner | Usually a reception inbox | Often bounced | Named role, verified address |
Frequently asked questions.
Start from the registers rather than a database. Every dentist practising in the UK appears on the General Dental Council register, every dental practice in England is registered with the Care Quality Commission, the NHS Business Services Authority publishes which practices hold NHS contracts, and Companies House holds the owning company and its directors. Causo reads those alongside practice websites and job boards, so a single-site practice with no marketing presence is as findable as a corporate brand.
Those databases are assembled largely from professional profiles and web signals that skew heavily toward software and services. Dentistry is the opposite shape: 16% of US dentists are affiliated with a dental support organization, so the overwhelming majority sit outside any corporate group, and 7,402 of England’s 10,360 registered dental practices are single-location providers. A two-director company running one surgery block usually has no profile to scrape, so it never enters the database and no filter will surface it.
There are 135,665 dental practice establishments in the United States according to the ADA Health Policy Institute, drawing on US Census County Business Patterns. In England, 10,360 dental practices sit on the Care Quality Commission register of locations, of which 7,402 are single-location providers and 2,958 belong to providers with more than one location.
The practice, why it matched, the evidence behind that with its source, and the decision maker with a verified email address. You can then ask follow-up questions about any result, such as how many surgeries it runs or whether it holds an NHS contract, and get answers with sources attached.
Yes, in plain English. Neither is a field in any contact database, so Causo works them out from the care regulator register, NHS dental contract lists and the practices’ own sites rather than looking them up.
Yes. The sources differ by country, so Causo uses the local equivalents: in the United States that is the state dental boards and ADA data, and elsewhere it is the national dental regulator, the company registry and whatever practice licensing records that jurisdiction publishes.
It depends on the size of the operator. At a single site it is almost always the principal dentist, who owns the business and works in it, often with the practice manager handling the detail. At a group of three or more it moves toward a clinical director, an operations lead or a group finance role, and at a dental support organization it is a central procurement team. Causo surfaces the role alongside the practice so you can tell which of those you are looking at.
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