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How Private Equity Is Buying Up Dental Support Organizations
In this episode of The Buyout Show with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into one of the hottest and most controversial roll-up plays in healthcare: dental support organizations, or DSOs. Private equity firms have backed over 400 DSOs in the last decade, aggregating thousands of independent dental practices under management. Lucas breaks down the economics — how DSOs claim to save dentists 30% on overhead through centralized billing, procurement, and HR — but also raises the hard question: does consolidation actually improve patient outcomes? They look at the case of Heartland Dental, the largest…
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