Implant Institute
Introduction, Stacey Ray, VP KOL Relations, IH Biomedical
Decades ago the majority of dental equipment and supply companies were owned by
dentists. Slowly this has changed and now the majority of dental companies, outside
of the clinical practices themselves, are owned by private equity companies, are publicly
traded, are owned by pension funds or larger dental conglomerates. This means
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panies are going to non-dentist investors.
Nothing against this trend, in fact, I used to be a multi-national executive with
Dentsply working with Implant Institutes and key opinion leaders for many years.
This “corporatization” of dental companies has shown dentists that there is great
have chosen to add vertical components to their clinical practices allowing for other,
non-clinical, streams of income to their dental businesses. We would like to give
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Transition Time. The future of dentistry bodes well for those
dentists who are able to look beyond the dental chair at the 30,000 foot view of the
changing landscape of business in dentistry.
Dr. An Le
the principle and strategies in the implant market that have helped forge his success.
service and more implant patients.
Together, Implant Institutes around the nation have formed the Implant Alliance to
dentistry – the fastest growing segment in the industry. The Implant Alliance is treated
as one, big DSO from an implant-pricing perspective. We also share information
related to many of the other important facets of implant dentistry. My private group
has multiple locations with a business structure modeled after the “DDSO Concept”
our DDSO we have exceeded our growth goals and wish the same for your practice.
Brady Frank,
DDS
An Q. Le,
DDS, AAID
David Prince,
DDS
Figure 3: Recently extracted site tooth #9 (Calvin
Bessonet, DDS)
Figure 2: External root resorption
of #9 necessitating extraction
(Calvin Bessonet, DDS).
CL
IMPLANTS
Sean Fleming,
DDS
Steve Williams,
DDS
McLean Severson,
DDS
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