Dental Practices in Hickory, NC
53 dental organizations file a practice address in Hickory with CMS, 36.1% of the 147 registered across the North Carolina side of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metropolitan area and the largest city in it. A routine adult cleaning runs $95 to $140 cash on our North Carolina range.
The registry holds identifiers, not prices, so nothing below is a quote. Use this range as the benchmark when you call a Hickory practice, and ask by code: D1110 for a routine clean, D4341 for scaling and root planing per quadrant. The US average is $125. All states compared.
What Hickory practices register as
General dentistry is 54.7% of the Hickory records against 67.3% across the Hickory-Lenoir area, a lighter weighting of 12.6 points.
| Category | Records | Share of the 53 |
|---|---|---|
| General dentistry | 29 | 54.7% |
| Dental clinic or center | 11 | 20.8% |
| Orthodontics | 5 | 9.4% |
| Endodontics (root canals) | 3 | 5.7% |
| Pediatric dentistry | 2 | 3.8% |
| Oral and maxillofacial surgery | 2 | 3.8% |
| Periodontics (gum treatment) | 1 | 1.9% |
| Dental public health | 1 | 1.9% |
14 of the 53 Hickory records register a specialty as their primary category rather than general dentistry or a general dental clinic, 26.4% of the city. 1 practice carries more than one dental taxonomy code, and 1 of those clear the bar for a page of its own on this site. The addresses fall in 2 ZIP codes. The oldest NPI in Hickory was issued on 16 July 2006 and the newest on 18 November 2025. 53 of the 53 records carry a phone number, and 25 have not been touched since before 2020, so check the update column before you dial.
Multi-location operators in Hickory
Organization names registered at more than one Hickory address. Each office holds its own NPI, and a chain often registers every office under a separate legal name.
| Operator (as registered) | Addresses in Hickory | Categories registered |
|---|---|---|
| Valley Hills Dentistry | 2 | General |
The register: all 53 practices in Hickory
Each practice as CMS holds it: the name it registered, its categories, the phone number on the record and the date the practice last updated that record. Nothing here is called or verified by us, and an NPI is not a license.
| Practice (as registered) | Category | Phone on the record | NPI | Record updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. K. Richardson and Associates, P.A. | General | (828) 267-1400 | 1487804704 | 2017-08-04 |
| Acuna & Acuna, PLLC | Dental clinic | (828) 322-4258 | 1285437459 | 2025-03-31 |
| Bethlehem Dental Care | General | (828) 495-8256 | 1104463751 | 2019-12-03 |
| Bryan R Neuwirth DDS MD PC | Oral surgery | (828) 327-7867 | 1578747507 | 2010-10-20 |
| Christopher H. Brown, Bs Dent, DDS, PA | Oral surgery | (828) 327-7867 | 1295752194 | 2007-08-07 |
| Coke S Gunter DDS PA | General | (828) 328-5581 | 1306944905 | 2023-03-07 |
| Comfort and Care Dentistry of Hickory | General | (828) 267-6800 | 1407312671 | 2019-02-13 |
| Compass Dental, PA | General | (828) 322-6226 | 1114443975 | 2022-07-21 |
| Covington Dental Clinic PA | General | (828) 322-4258 | 1548491723 | 2009-08-05 |
| Delores L. Hammer, DDS | General | (828) 327-7502 | 1740484898 | 2020-08-22 |
| Dentalworks | General | (828) 267-1400 | 1689192635 | 2022-06-16 |
| Donald L. Culbreth DDS | Dental clinic | (828) 322-4258 | 1245415686 | 2008-01-03 |
| Dr Bee Lay Yang DDS PA | General | (828) 256-3400 | 1649388414 | 2020-08-22 |
| Dr Dale E Spencer DDS | General | (828) 328-6118 | 1376692012 | 2013-11-19 |
| Dr. David C. Hamilton, Jr. DDS, MS, PA | Orthodontics | (828) 324-4535 | 1720289259 | 2020-08-22 |
| Dr. James N. Poovey, D.D.S., P.A. | Dental clinic | (828) 322-4258 | 1205007168 | 2022-07-21 |
| Dr. William Straka | General | (828) 327-6070 | 1003038340 | 2007-09-06 |
| Fresh Dental Hickory | General | (828) 405-1501 | 1275144735 | 2020-08-10 |
| George W. Clay III, D.D.S., P.A. | General | (828) 256-7958 | 1225056104 | 2014-01-16 |
| Gordon & Scheller, DDS, PLLC | General | (828) 672-1000 | 1205582624 | 2022-02-24 |
| Graham and McKinney PLLC | General | (828) 322-6731 | 1376244467 | 2023-03-15 |
| Gray Family Dentistry | Dental clinic | (828) 270-7997 | 1679251912 | 2023-07-07 |
| Gunter and Graham, D.D.S., P.A. | General | (828) 328-5581 | 1548572498 | 2010-07-08 |
| Hamilton & Herring Orthodontics | Orthodontics | (828) 324-4535 | 1548407679 | 2009-01-12 |
| Hamren Scheller & Associates PLLC | General | (828) 267-6858 | 1699400978 | 2026-07-16 |
| Harmony Branch Pediatric Dentistry | Pediatric | (828) 358-4844 | 1487466777 | 2026-02-06 |
| Hickory Dental Care | Dental clinic | (828) 328-6118 | 1790463438 | 2023-07-11 |
| Hickory Distinctive Dentistry | Dental clinic | (828) 267-6800 | 1710467048 | 2018-08-16 |
| J Mark Helton DDS PA | General | (828) 325-0844 | 1841359817 | 2007-11-07 |
| James B Boggs DDS and Associates, PA | Dental clinic | (828) 324-6090 | 1376404657 | 2025-11-18 |
| Jason T Herring DDS, MS, PLLC | Orthodontics | (828) 324-4535 | 1417543570 | 2020-12-14 |
| John L Hyatt DDS PA | Periodontics | (828) 328-6161 | 1073720611 | 2020-08-22 |
| John S McAllister DDS PA | General | (828) 322-6731 | 1972778231 | 2008-04-28 |
| Kristin W Herring, DDS, PLLC | Dental clinic | (828) 381-8252 | 1801132949 | 2012-12-18 |
| Kutuza Alexander Safonovich PLLC | Endodontics | (828) 409-1726 | 1659855633 | 2018-09-17 |
| McKinney & Graham Dental Arts | Public health, Dental clinic | (828) 324-6235 | 1124620729 | 2020-11-10 |
| Oakwood Dental Arts | Dental clinic | (828) 324-6235 | 1831600345 | 2017-10-24 |
| Pardue D.D.S. PLLC | Dental clinic | (828) 322-4627 | 1740956978 | 2024-05-30 |
| Richard M. Garlitz, DDS, PA | Orthodontics | (828) 322-1535 | 1801817895 | 2020-08-22 |
| Rick Hensley DMD II PA DBA Mt View Family Dentistry | General | (828) 294-1448 | 1295909844 | 2010-10-15 |
| Robert Scott Nance, DDS, MS, PA | Endodontics | (828) 267-1500 | 1194931162 | 2020-08-22 |
| Robinette & Associates, PLLC | General | (828) 267-0651 | 1477837987 | 2011-10-03 |
| S. Ross Penland DMD PA | Pediatric | (828) 855-3779 | 1013351824 | 2014-01-13 |
| Sleep Well Carolina | General | (828) 328-5581 | 1356038608 | 2024-07-03 |
| Small and Piers LLP | Orthodontics | (828) 322-1250 | 1952319691 | 2021-01-20 |
| Smilestarters | General | (828) 469-3000 | 1841583176 | 2024-04-12 |
| Thomas E Rider DDS | General | (828) 495-8256 | 1487845533 | 2008-07-22 |
| Thomas V Carnaggio DMD MS PA, | General | (828) 294-1448 | 1619258837 | 2013-08-23 |
| Valley Hills Dentistry | General | (828) 267-6800 | 1407505266 | 2022-04-05 |
| Valley Hills Dentistry | General | (828) 267-6800 | 1902677206 | 2024-01-15 |
| Viewmont Family Dentistry | General | (828) 267-6858 | 1245637180 | 2014-11-20 |
| Viewmont Family Dentristry | General | (828) 267-6858 | 1104017862 | 2013-07-23 |
| William M Kopp DMD PA | Endodontics | (828) 322-8710 | 1073729885 | 2020-08-22 |
Elsewhere in the Hickory-Lenoir area
Where the rest of the Hickory-Lenoir area's 147 registered practices are. A city with at least 50 registered practices has a page like this one; the smaller towns are tabled on the metro page.
Hickory is the only city in the Hickory-Lenoir area with 50 or more registered practices, so it is the only one with a page of its own.
A further 94 practices sit in 13 smaller towns across the area and are tabled on the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC page, alongside the metro-wide category mix and the operator roll-up. 4,455 practices are registered in North Carolina in total.
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. City is the practice-location city each organization filed with CMS, grouped with the other spellings of the same name. The Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC area is the 2023 Census CBSA delineation. File published 10 August 2026.
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.