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Dental Marketing in Scranton, PA

The Scranton Wilkes Barre dental market is anchored by Geisinger and Commonwealth Health workforce, the University of Scranton and Wilkes University academic base, Amazon and Chewy fulfillment center workforce, Prudential and Sanofi Pasteur corporate base, and distinct submarkets from Clarks Summit and Dalton through Dunmore, Kingston, and Back Mountain. The region has experienced decades of population decline that is beginning to reverse with logistics and healthcare investment.

The Scranton Wilkes Barre metro is anchored by Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in Scranton (part of the Geisinger health system), Geisinger Community Medical Center, Commonwealth Health (LifePoint, operator of Regional Hospital of Scranton and Wilkes Barre General Hospital), the University of Scranton (Jesuit), Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, King's College in Wilkes Barre, Marywood University, Lackawanna College, Prudential Financial regional operations, Sanofi Pasteur vaccine manufacturing in Swiftwater, Amazon mega fulfillment centers in Hazle Township, Chewy, American Eagle, and FedEx distribution centers that have made the I-81 corridor one of the largest East Coast logistics hubs. Legacy anthracite coal heritage defines the region's identity.

The Scranton Dental Market

Our Scranton dental marketing programs draw on the Scranton Wilkes Barre metro area market knowledge, including Scranton proper has approximately 76,000 residents and the Scranton Wilkes Barre Hazleton metropolitan statistical area has approximately 560,000 people across Lackawanna, Luzerne, and Wyoming Counties in northeastern Pennsylvania..

Submarkets We Target

Clarks Summit and Dalton

Premier Lackawanna County bedroom communities with top Abington Heights schools, historic village character, and affluent professional households.

Dunmore

Established Lackawanna County borough adjacent to Scranton with stable middle class base and Italian American heritage.

Back Mountain (Dallas, Shavertown, Trucksville)

Premier Luzerne County bedroom communities with top Dallas and Lake Lehman schools and affluent household base.

Kingston and Forty Fort

Premier Luzerne County boroughs across the Susquehanna from Wilkes Barre with strong schools and stable family base.

Pittston

Luzerne County city between Scranton and Wilkes Barre with growing logistics workforce and mid market homes.

Moosic and Taylor

Lackawanna County boroughs adjacent to Scranton with mid market homes and stable family base.

Mountain Top (Wright Township and Fairview Township)

Premier rural Luzerne County corridors above Wilkes Barre with top Crestwood schools and affluent professional households.

Factoryville and Tunkhannock

Wyoming County boroughs with rural character and stable middle class base.

West Side Scranton and Green Ridge

Established Scranton neighborhoods with restored homes and mid market base.

South Scranton, North Scranton, and Central City Wilkes Barre

Historic urban cores with majority Hispanic, African American, and Asian communities including significant Bhutanese Nepali resettlement populations.

Insurance and Payer Environment

Scranton Wilkes Barre commercial dental is led by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Northeastern Pennsylvania (the dominant regional commercial insurer, part of the Highmark system), Geisinger Health Plan, Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania legacy, Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, United Concordia, Cigna, Aetna, and MetLife. Major employer PPO volume comes from Geisinger, Commonwealth Health, the University of Scranton, Wilkes University, King's College, Marywood University, Prudential Financial, Sanofi Pasteur, Amazon, Chewy, and the Scranton and Wilkes Barre Area school districts. Pennsylvania Medical Assistance provides limited adult dental benefits.

Demographics and Patient Base

Scranton Wilkes Barre has a predominantly white population with legacy Italian American, Irish American, Polish American, and Welsh American heritage communities tied to the anthracite coal era. The urban cores of Scranton, Wilkes Barre, and particularly Hazleton have experienced rapid Hispanic population growth (Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Mexican) and significant Bhutanese Nepali and Burmese refugee resettlement. Hazleton is now approximately 60 percent Hispanic.

Regional Dental Institutions

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
Philadelphia

Ivy League dental school, roughly 2 hour drive south of Scranton. Major source of regional dental workforce.

Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry
Philadelphia

Major source of Pennsylvania dental workforce.

Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Scranton

Academic medical school, part of the Geisinger health system. No dental school but strong predental pipeline.

University of Scranton
Scranton

Jesuit university with top predental pipeline in northeastern Pennsylvania.

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.

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