Our Story.

Dentex. Amazing people, amazing dentistry.
The dental corporate with a twist, Dentex is focused on building an organisation that people are proud to be part of.
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One that inspires growth, clinical freedom and liberates the lifestyles of those within it.

Since we started our journey back in 2016, we’ve grown to our community of practices across the UK. Our partners become shareholders when they join us, meaning we all grow together and share in each other’s success. We celebrate the individuality of each of our practices and their teams, giving them the time and support to get back to doing the job they love. That’s why we’re the UK’s corporate of choice.

Want to know how we got here?

Take the whistlestop tour below.

2014

The Concept is Born

What if corporate dentistry could be done differently? A partnership that recognises each practice is different and trusts those who know it best to run it. Sound good to you? Us too.
2014

2015

Chicken or Egg

Zero investors because we had zero practices. Zero practices because we had zero investors. You can see where we’re going with this. It was a long year but when you believe in something, you persevere.
2015

2016

Funding Secured

The journey begins. Our central support team grows to 13 staff and Barry Lanesman joins as Chief Executive Officer. We end the year with two practices.
2016

2017

“Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast”

We are backed by our good friends at Universal Partners and our game changing, customer obsessed culture shakes up the industry. The Dentex values are born. 13 practices join us, and we end the year with 15 practices in our community.
2017

2018

The Year of the Disco Light

The Dentex offer evolves into our current partnership model. We more than double in size to 32 practices. Our Partner Support team also doubles in size and we move into a bigger office. We buy a disco light to celebrate.
2018

2019

Scaling Up

We invest in our growth by expanding our central Partner Support function to a team of 50 practice centric folk. Our community grows to 67 practices.
2019

2020

Triumph in the Face of Adversity

The pandemic arrives in the UK and we enter lockdown. Our Procurement, Operations and Compliance teams work round the clock to secure PPE and evolve clinical protocols. We rent a warehouse and start running our own supply chain operation, delivering over 1.7m units of PPE across the country. All of our practices are back open and seeing patients by July. We end the year with 73 practices.
2020

2021

#100 Practices

Strong team? ✓
Established culture? ✓
Phenomenal growth? ✓

Our 100th practice joins us and by the end of the year we have 108 practices and 89 members of partner support within our community.

2021

2022

Growth in our community

Another 42 new practices join us and 56 new members of the partner support team.

264 associates ✓
113 hygienists ✓
517 staff members ✓

2022

2023

Bringing Dentex and Portman together

A busy year focusing on the merger, integrating teams and creating synergies to become stronger as one. Process improvements, system efficiencies and high-end service for our practices, staff and patients.

2023