private equity

Oral Surgeons Being Courted by Private Equity – Viper Equity Partners Responds

It is no surprise that oral surgery and oral surgeons are the hot buy...

Value-Based Dentistry Comes With Inherent Problems

Value in healthcare is the measured improvement in patients’ health outcomes compared to the...

Dental Industry Contracts Unfairly Require Arbitration

Forced arbitration is becoming commonplace in many dental industry agreements. It replaces potential litigation...

Benevis Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

LT Smile Corporation, along with its subsidiaries Benevis Holding Corporation, Benevis Corporation, Benevis LLC,...

COVID-19 Punishes High-Yield Bonds in the Dental Industry

Some household names in the dental industry, particularly dental service organizations (DSOs), were among...

Gryphon Investors Looking to Sell Its Smile Brands DSO

Gryphon Investors, a mid-capitalization market private equity (PE) firm, is looking to sell one...

Use the DDSO Model to Secure Your Retirement

Our last recession was proof that the standard way of achieving financial security and...

Kool Smiles Dental Quietly Changes the Names of Its Clinics

In Mississippi and Arkansas, Kool Smiles Dental has changed its brand name to Sunnybrook...

Physician Groups Challenge Corporatization of Healthcare

One newly established physician advocacy group, the Association of Independent Doctors (AID), is working...

Private Equity Firms Target DSOs Through Leveraged Buying

The private equity industry facilitates purchases in companies for interested investors. These potential investors...