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Dental Marketing in Allentown, PA

The Lehigh Valley dental market is anchored by LVHN and St Luke's healthcare workforce (two of the largest employer PPO bases in eastern Pennsylvania), Air Products and PPL corporate workforce, Lehigh and Lafayette academic workforce, and distinct submarkets from Upper Saucon and Lower Macungie through Emmaus, Bethlehem Township, and Forks Township. Allentown proper has one of the largest Hispanic populations in Pennsylvania.

The Lehigh Valley is anchored by Lehigh Valley Health Network (the dominant regional health system headquartered in Allentown), St Luke's University Health Network (co-dominant health system headquartered in Bethlehem), Air Products and Chemicals Fortune 500 headquarters in Trexlertown, PPL Corporation headquarters (electric and gas utility) in Allentown, B Braun Medical US headquarters in Bethlehem, Mack Trucks legacy, Crayola in Easton, Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Lafayette College in Easton, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Moravian University, DeSales University, Amazon and FedEx mega-distribution centers, and a diversified economy of healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, and logistics.

The Allentown Dental Market

Our Allentown dental marketing programs draw on the Lehigh Valley metro area market knowledge, including Allentown proper has approximately 125,000 residents (the third largest city in Pennsylvania) and the Allentown Bethlehem Easton metropolitan statistical area has approximately 870,000 people, making the Lehigh Valley the third largest metro area in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh..

Submarkets We Target

Upper Saucon Township

Premier Lehigh County premium corridor with top Southern Lehigh schools, Center Valley, and affluent professional households.

Lower Macungie Township

Premier Lehigh County bedroom township with top East Penn schools, Emmaus adjacency, and executive households.

Emmaus

Established Lehigh County premium borough with top schools and stable fee for service base.

Bethlehem Township and Hanover Township

Premier Northampton County corridors with top Bethlehem Area schools and affluent households.

Forks Township and Palmer Township

Premier Northampton County bedroom communities near Easton with top schools.

Upper Macungie and Lowhill

Growing Lehigh County townships with new construction and strong schools.

Nazareth and Bath

Northampton County boroughs with stable family base and mid market homes.

Center City Bethlehem

Historic Bethlehem with Moravian character, Lehigh University adjacency, and premium restored homes.

Salisbury Township and Whitehall Township

Established Lehigh County corridors with mid market homes.

Center City Allentown and South Side Allentown

Historic Allentown corridors with majority Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Mexican communities, plus growing Syrian and Iraqi populations.

Insurance and Payer Environment

Lehigh Valley commercial dental is led by Highmark Blue Shield (the dominant eastern and central Pennsylvania commercial insurer, part of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association), Independence Blue Cross, Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, Capital BlueCross (based in Harrisburg), United Concordia, Cigna, Aetna, and MetLife. Major employer PPO volume comes from LVHN, St Luke's University Health Network, Air Products, PPL Corporation, B Braun Medical, Lehigh University, Lafayette College, Muhlenberg College, Amazon, and the Allentown and Bethlehem school districts. Pennsylvania Medical Assistance provides limited adult dental benefits with narrow carve-outs.

Demographics and Patient Base

Allentown proper is majority Hispanic (approximately 54 percent Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Mexican) with a significant African American population and growing Syrian and Iraqi refugee communities. Bethlehem has a large Hispanic community centered on the South Side and a legacy Portuguese American community. Easton is racially diverse. The suburbs (Upper Saucon, Lower Macungie, Forks, Palmer) are predominantly white with growing South Asian and East Asian populations tied to Air Products, LVHN, and Lehigh University.

Regional Dental Institutions

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
Philadelphia

Ivy League dental school, the closest to the Lehigh Valley (roughly 60 minute drive south). Primary source of regional dental workforce.

Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry
Philadelphia

Major source of Pennsylvania dental workforce with extensive eastern PA pipeline.

Lehigh University
Bethlehem

Major private research university. No dental school but significant predental pipeline.

Lafayette College
Easton

Top tier liberal arts college with strong predental pipeline.

See every Pennsylvania metro we serve, or explore the full dental marketing program we run for practices nationwide. Every engagement ships with real-time reporting through our SmileTrak analytics dashboard, and you can browse the complete metro directory or specialty and industry pages for more context on who we work with.

Every program pulls from the same foundation we run company-wide: dental SEO, Google Ads for dentists, custom dental websites, social media management, reputation management, and graphic design. Layer in HIPAA-aware web forms and call tracking and you have a complete new-patient machine.

Services for Allentown Dental Practices

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