Here are nine leaders from the company’s executive team to know: Robert Fontana. Chair and CEO: Mr. Fontana originally founded the company as Aspen Dental in 1998. The company rebranded in 2021 to ...

The cheap-money era that dominated the last few years let DSOs grow by buying up practices. With interest rates now higher and multiples lower, three executives say that playbook is over, and the ...

DSOs will need to be more methodical with their investments and enhance their value creation for partner dentists in order to remain successful as challenges mount, several executives have recently ...

Boca Raton, Fla.-based Sage Dental has expanded its network with another practice in Florida. The organization added Sage Dental of Dunedin, formerly known as Monticciolo Family & Sedation Dentistry, ...

Here are six recent updates that have led to optimism and skepticism in the dental industry: Good news Graduation rates increase The total number of dental school graduates has increased by 20.7% ...

The Montana VA Health Care System has broken ground on its first standalone dental clinic in the state, according to an Oct. 21 report from KTVH. The more than $8.2 million facility will be located in ...

Denver-based Espire Dental recently added three partners in Washington. The newest additions to the DSO’s network are Mahtab Mansour, DDS, in Seattle; Kayla Ellis, DDS, in Redmond; and Nicholas Tran, ...

Effingham, Ill.-based Heartland Dental has reached 2,000 supported dental offices in its network, becoming the first DSO in the U.S. to reach the milestone. So far in 2026, Heartland Dental has added ...

There are nearly 11,000 orthodontists and dentofacial orthopedists in the U.S. as of 2025, according to data from the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute. The specialty has grown by ...

Some DSOs have grown by aggregating practices and revenue without ever becoming true operating companies. Now, the doctors who trusted them with their practices are bearing the cost, according to ...

Dallas-based MB2 Dental has added a California orthodontic practice to its network. The dental partnership organization added Boulton Orthodontics, led by Bart Boulton, DDS, according to an Oct. 21 ...

Minh Phuong Dong, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Loma Linda (Calif.) University School of Dentistry, received an award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to develop a ...