My dentist was bought out by one of these operations a couple of years ago, and quit after a few months of observing their tactics. I never actually saw her when I went for two 6 months checkups. It was non-stop upsell on water piks, "preventative" procedures, cosmetics. So I switched back when I found out my original dentist had re-opened a private practice. Stay away from venture capital dentistry operations. Same with veterinary practices -- similar issue with venture capital takeover of our long term vet.

If the operation is owned/financed by venture capital, stay away. Their priority is obviously not health and wellbeing.

Private Equity taking over all businesses is going to be our undoing.

Can confirm, I used to have a lot of dental IT clients and most of them have left because of being purchased by PE that has their own IT staff and only wants break/fix support.

How do you know if dental practice is owned by PE?

sounds like every Vet practice as well. There's lots of things wrong with Canada's public health care system, but the downsides we see with private dental and vet care should be alarming as well.