About The Dental Index.
The Dental Index is an independent dental industry intelligence publication founded by Javeria Rameez Naqvi. It publishes original research, county-level market intelligence, anonymized practice audits, and editorial on how patients find dental care in the age of AI search — built from a national dataset spanning 201,000+ US dental practices and 2.4 million tracked monthly patient searches.
What Is The Dental Index?
The Dental Index measures the business of dentistry: where patient demand is, which practices capture it, and — increasingly — which practices AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews recommend when patients ask.
Published at javeriarnaqvi.com, The Dental Index covers US dentistry for three audiences: solo practice owners, multi-location dental groups, and DSOs. Everything it publishes draws on the same national practice audit pipeline — live search-demand data, Google Maps rankings across 48 dental service keywords, and modeled AI-visibility scoring — documented in full on the Research Methodology page.
Who Publishes The Dental Index?
Javeria Rameez Naqvi (MBA, Lean Six Sigma) is a dental industry strategist and market intelligence researcher. She founded The Dental Index and GMB Dentist, and her research and writing have appeared in Dental Economics, DrBicuspid, and Perio Implant Advisory. Read her full profile on the founder page.
The Dental Index is independent: its research is unsponsored, its practice audits are built entirely from public data, and coverage is never conditional on any commercial engagement.
What Does The Dental Index Publish?
- Original research reports — independent, data-backed studies, such as the DSO Visibility Gap in AI Search (793 AI-generated dentist recommendations analyzed across 40 US markets).
- County market intelligence — free downloadable whitepapers quantifying a single county's dental demand, competition, and opportunity gaps.
- Practice visibility audits — anonymized, current-state case studies of real US practices' rankings, AI readiness scores, and demand capture.
- Editorial — analysis of AI search, case acceptance, DSO consolidation, patient acquisition, and practice growth, organized by topic for solo practices, multi-location groups, and DSOs.
Is This a Clinical "Dental Index"?
No — and the name deserves a clarification. In clinical dentistry, a dental index (the DMF index, plaque index, gingival index) is an epidemiological scoring system used to measure oral disease. The Dental Index is not a clinical index. It is a market intelligence publication: it indexes dental markets — patient demand, competition, and AI-search visibility — not oral health outcomes.
How to Cite The Dental Index
Statistics and findings published here may be cited freely with attribution. The preferred citation format:
The Dental Index, by Javeria Rameez Naqvi — javeriarnaqvi.com. "[Report or article title]," [year].
For press inquiries, data questions, or corrections, contact the founder directly via the link in the footer. Verified corrections are applied to the affected page with a dated note, per our methodology and corrections policy.
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