Cottonwood Family Dentistry
Registered legal name: Tanner Nelson, DDS, PLLC
910 1ST Ave N, Great Falls, MT 59401
The registry record
- NPI
- 1760226047
- Registered as
- Type-2 organization (not an individual dentist's personal NPI)
- Dental categories
- Dental clinic, General
- Taxonomy codes
- 1223G0001X (General practice dentistry); 261QD0000X (Dental clinic or center)
- Non-dental codes
- 332BC3200X
- Practice location
- 910 1ST Ave N, Great Falls, MT 59401
- Telephone
- (406) 661-9313
- NPI issued
- 21 June 2024 (2 years ago)
- Record updated
- 24 July 2026 (0 years ago)
- Certified by the practice
- 24 July 2026
- NPI status
- NPI active as reported by CMS 2026-08
- Metro area
- Great Falls, MT (metropolitan area, Cascade County)
- State
- Montana (357 registered practices)
- Map position
- Census address match at street level
- Snapshot
- NPPES data dissemination file, 10 August 2026
What the record tells you
Cottonwood Family Dentistry, the trading name of Tanner Nelson, DDS, PLLC, is an NPI registry record for a dental organization at 910 1ST Ave N in Great Falls, Montana 59401. CMS issued NPI 1760226047 on 21 June 2024, and the practice last updated its own entry on 24 July 2026. That is recent, so the contact details are likely to be current.
It is registered under 2 dental taxonomy codes: General practice dentistry (1223G0001X), Dental clinic or center (261QD0000X). That puts it in 2 categories on this site, led by dental clinic or center. A practice that registers more than one category is telling CMS it does more than one kind of dental work at this address, which is why it has a page here rather than a row. No other address in the registry carries this name, though a practice trading under a chain brand often registers each office under its own legal name, so check the brand as well.
Great Falls holds 30 registered dental practices inside the Great Falls, MT area, which has 30 in total on the Montana side and ranks 6th in the state. 10 of the Great Falls records also register dental clinic or center, so this is one of several local options in that category. Across the metro the mix runs general dentistry 43.3%, dental clinic or center 33.3%, orthodontics 10%. The closest other registered practices are Great Falls Caring Dentistry (0.4 miles, Great Falls), Funseth Dental (0.4 miles, Great Falls) and Great Falls Dental Associates LLC (0.6 miles, Great Falls), with 2 more inside 1 miles.
On our figures a routine adult cleaning in Montana runs $95 to $140 cash and scaling and root planing $165 to $260 per quadrant, against a US average of $125. This practice's own prices are not in the registry and never will be: NPPES holds identifiers, not fees. Call (406) 661-9313 and ask for the cash price on code D1110, whether the exam and X-rays are included, and whether they run a membership plan if you have no insurance.
Nearest alternatives
The 5 closest registered dental practices to 910 1ST Ave N, straight-line distance. Rows without a link are listed on their metro page rather than having one of their own.
| Practice | City | Distance | Categories | Phone on the record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Falls Caring Dentistry | Great Falls, MT | 0.4 mi | Dental clinic | (406) 454-3711 |
| Funseth Dental | Great Falls, MT | 0.4 mi | Dental clinic | (406) 231-0072 |
| Great Falls Dental Associates LLC | Great Falls, MT | 0.6 mi | General | (406) 452-8740 |
| Eugene A. Tynes D.D.S. P.C. | Great Falls, MT | 0.7 mi | General | (406) 761-3800 |
| Justin A. Hicks, D.M.D., PC | Great Falls, MT | 1 mi | General | (406) 216-5273 |
The benchmark to hold a quote from Cottonwood Family Dentistry against. All 50 states compared.
What to ask when you call
- The cash price for D1110, a routine adult cleaning, and whether the exam (D0120) and X-rays (D0274) are inside or outside that number.
- Whether you need scaling and root planing before a routine clean, and the per-quadrant price for D4341 or D4342 if so.
- Whether they run an in-house membership plan, and what it covers against what it costs a year.
- Whether they are taking new patients and how far out the next hygiene appointment is.
- The practice license, with your state dental board. An NPI is a billing identifier and proves nothing about licensing.
CMS NPPES NPI data file, August 2026, snapshot 10 August 2026. US federal public data (FOIA-disclosable, no charge). CMS NPI files. NPI registry records, status as reported by CMS in the August 2026 data dissemination file. NPPES is an identifier registry, not a license register: an NPI does not validate that a practice is licensed, accredited or currently open. Practices maintain their own NPPES entries. Every page shows the date the record was last updated; addresses and phone numbers are as self-reported and are not verified by us. This page describes a registry record. It is not a review, an endorsement or a check on Cottonwood Family Dentistry.
Price figures are our own, last verified April 2026. State averages are our estimates compiled from FAIR Health regional cost data and CMS Medicare fee schedules; the ADA discontinued its national Survey of Dental Fees in 2023, so no national fee survey exists. Treat them as a starting point and call two or three offices for an actual quote.