{
 "name": "seodentists.uk UK Dental Practice Population",
 "title": "UK Dental Practice Population",
 "url": "https://seodentists.uk/datasets/uk-dental-practice-population/",
 "csv": "https://seodentists.uk/datasets/uk-dental-practice-population.csv",
 "markdown": "https://seodentists.uk/datasets/uk-dental-practice-population/index.md",
 "computed_at": "2026-09-21",
 "license": "https://seodentists.uk/terms",
 "headline": "The UK Dental Practice Population carries 3 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 47,022 to 131,680 count, read 21 September 2026.",
 "quotes": [
  "The UK Dental Practice Population carries 3 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 47,022 to 131,680 count, read 21 September 2026.",
  "3 of the 8 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 21 September 2026.",
  "UK Dental Practice Population, registrant type dentists: median 47,022 count across 1 source, read 21 September 2026.",
  "UK Dental Practice Population, registrant type dental care professionals: median 80,657 count across 1 source, read 21 September 2026.",
  "UK Dental Practice Population, registrant type all dental professionals: median 131,680 count across 1 source, read 21 September 2026."
 ],
 "citation": "\"seodentists.uk UK Dental Practice Population\", updated 2026-09-21, https://seodentists.uk/datasets/uk-dental-practice-population/.",
 "changed_since": null,
 "national": {
  "unit": "count",
  "n": 3,
  "median": 80657,
  "min": 47022,
  "max": 131680,
  "p25": 47022,
  "p75": 131680,
  "mean": 86453,
  "units": {
   "count": 3
  },
  "published_sources": 3,
  "named_sources": 11,
  "read_sources": 8,
  "not_published": 5,
  "published_share": 0.375
 },
 "by_axis": {
  "registrant type": {
   "dentists": {
    "count": {
     "n": 1,
     "median": 47022,
     "min": 47022,
     "max": 47022,
     "p25": 47022,
     "p75": 47022,
     "mean": 47022
    }
   },
   "dental care professionals": {
    "count": {
     "n": 1,
     "median": 80657,
     "min": 80657,
     "max": 80657,
     "p25": 80657,
     "p75": 80657,
     "mean": 80657
    }
   },
   "all dental professionals": {
    "count": {
     "n": 1,
     "median": 131680,
     "min": 131680,
     "max": 131680,
     "p25": 131680,
     "p75": 131680,
     "mean": 131680
    }
   }
  }
 },
 "rows": [
  {
   "source": "GDC - Register increases to over 47,000 dentists",
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/news-blogs/news/detail/2026/01/19/gdc-register-increases-to-over-47-000-dentists",
   "figure": "47,022",
   "value": 47022,
   "unit": "count",
   "axis": {
    "registrant type": "dentists"
   },
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-21",
   "quote": "The Register size after removals stood at 47,022, compared to 45,580 in 2025.",
   "source_class": "primary-government",
   "text_sha256": "56a9e7a891df9272a21681fe090332620217df3941c59dfc23bfbf6616b49620"
  },
  {
   "source": "GDC - number of UK registered dental care professionals rises again",
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/news-blogs/news/detail/2025/08/15/number-of-uk-registered-dental-care-professionals-rises-again",
   "figure": "80,657",
   "value": 80657,
   "unit": "count",
   "axis": {
    "registrant type": "dental care professionals"
   },
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-21",
   "quote": "With 80,657 DCPs now registered across the UK, we have witnessed a substantial increase of 4,764 professionals (6.26%) compared to the equivalent figure for 2024.",
   "source_class": "primary-government",
   "text_sha256": "e3b112c919c433acfd2f1d0846748836257a7e743f35263a4e1e8329490281f9"
  },
  {
   "source": "GDC - Registration Statistical Report 2025",
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/docs/default-source/reports-and-publications/gdc-registration-statistics-report-2025-accessible.pdf",
   "figure": "131,680",
   "value": 131680,
   "unit": "count",
   "axis": {
    "registrant type": "all dental professionals"
   },
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-21",
   "quote": "There were 131,680 dental professionals on our register at the end of 2025, a 4.7% increase compared to",
   "source_class": "primary-government",
   "text_sha256": "b8c7b17fa82c897b4662e31cd96f15cfec90d7f440287c0215abff8d6765a93a"
  }
 ],
 "not_published": [
  {
   "source": "GDC - registration reports index",
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/about-us/what-we-do/the-registers/registration-reports",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-21",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  },
  {
   "source": "NHSBSA - dental statistics, England 2025/26",
   "url": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202526",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-21",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  },
  {
   "source": "NHSBSA - dental data",
   "url": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/dental-data",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-21",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  },
  {
   "source": "NHSBSA Open Data Portal - English contractor monthly general dental activity",
   "url": "https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/english-contractor-monthly-general-dental-activity",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-21",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  },
  {
   "source": "gdc-uk.org",
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/about-us/what-we-do/the-registers/registration-reports",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-21",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/news-blogs/news/detail/2026/01/19/gdc-register-increases-to-over-47-000-dentists",
   "label": "GDC - Register increases to over 47,000 dentists",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/news-blogs/news/detail/2026/05/07/internationally-qualified-dentists-outnumber-uk-qualified-dentists-joining-gdc-register-for-first-time",
   "label": "GDC - internationally qualified dentists outnumber UK-qualified joiners",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/news-blogs/news/detail/2025/08/15/number-of-uk-registered-dental-care-professionals-rises-again",
   "label": "GDC - number of UK registered dental care professionals rises again",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/docs/default-source/reports-and-publications/gdc-registration-statistics-report-2025-accessible.pdf",
   "label": "GDC - Registration Statistical Report 2025",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/about-us/what-we-do/the-registers/registration-reports",
   "label": "GDC - registration reports index",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://olr.gdc-uk.org/",
   "label": "GDC - search the registers",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202526",
   "label": "NHSBSA - dental statistics, England 2025/26",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/dental-data",
   "label": "NHSBSA - dental data",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/english-contractor-monthly-general-dental-activity",
   "label": "NHSBSA Open Data Portal - English contractor monthly general dental activity",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.cqc.org.uk/",
   "label": "Care Quality Commission",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.gdc-uk.org/about-us/what-we-do/the-registers/registration-reports",
   "label": "gdc-uk.org",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  }
 ],
 "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 3 of the 8 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 5 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 3 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in count (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 21 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. Derivation as chartered: the GDC's registrant counts by type and nation joined to the NHSBSA's contract-level England data and the CQC's registered-provider directory, to give a practice count rather than a practitioner count - the two are routinely confused in this market's own pages; the change between annual snapshots (47,022 dentists after removals against 45,580 the year before); and the resulting addressable market per agency, which is what turns a £1,500 monthly fee into a statement about a market rather than a price",
 "embed": "<figure style=\"margin:0;padding:16px;border:1px solid #d9d9d9;border-radius:8px;background:#ffffff;color:#111111;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;max-width:480px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-size:28px;font-weight:700;color:#111111;background:#ffffff\">47,022 to 131,680 count</p><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-size:14px;color:#111111;background:#ffffff\">3 published figures, UK Dental Practice Population, across 3 sources, read 21 September 2026</p><figcaption style=\"font-size:12px;color:#444444;background:#ffffff\"><a href=\"https://seodentists.uk/datasets/uk-dental-practice-population/#median\" style=\"color:#1a4fd6;background:#ffffff\">Source: seodentists.uk UK Dental Practice Population</a></figcaption></figure>"
}