Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® owns a number of subsidiaries that function as separate, independent entities. One of its subsidiaries is a DSO, Access Dental Services, LLC, which was formed on…
As the movement toward consolidation in the dental industry continues to gain strength and evolve, we are seeing more and more emerging DSOs develop from two or more dentists joining forces, drawn together…
In 2017, Perfect Dental Management (PDM) was featured on GDN’s Emerging Groups to Watch list. Now, GDN is checking in with its founder, Dmitry Burshteyn. We explore which strategies have worked…
Since we started Group Dentistry Now five years ago, we have seen quite an evolution in the DSO industry. Being a first-mover, we have been on the frontline of reporting…
Publisher’s Corner Even though this may be my first official Publisher’s Corner post for Group Dentistry Now, as many of you know, I have been involved with DSOs for many years and have been…
The annual Dykema DSO Conference, which began in 2013 with 42 attendees and one sponsor, continues to grow in popularity. The well-attended conference provided non-biased objective information to nearly 600 total…
A pioneer among DSOs, Smile Brands was founded in 1998 by a management team that included co-founder and CEO Steve Bilt and CFO Brad Schmidt, in partnership with Gryphon Investors,…
Gentle Dental Partners of New England (Gentle Communications LLC) recently began a rebranding of their organization to 42 North Dental, which they did in order to better reflect all their supported practices. In…
Pacific Dental Services (PDS®), who recently hit an impressive 10,000 team member milestone, also just launched the 8th annual Smile Generation Serve Day. Six hundred twenty two PDS-supported offices and 5,272 volunteers, working in…
Some stereotype DSOs and group dentistry as being solely interested in profits and growth while taking market share away from private (solo) practitioners. Some may even say DSOs only answer to their shareholders and private equity investment firms. Still others may stereotype DSOs…