Who we are
The dental partnership that hands you the contract first.
Six limits, published. One platform behind them. People you can call.
No founding story and no philosophy. Here is how this is structured, what runs the operating side, and who is accountable for it.
What you can check before you call
Four things that are true whatever we tell you on the phone.
6
Limits we can never cross, published as the clause text that goes in the agreement rather than as promises on a website. Read them before you talk to anyone here.
| What is written down | What that means for you |
|---|---|
| No non-compete, in any state. | Clause A.1, and it survives termination and cannot be waived. If this does not work out you keep the right to practise wherever you want, including across the street. |
| Clinical judgment stays yours. | Clause A.3. We never modify a diagnosis, never require a diagnostic test, and never sit between you and a treatment decision. |
| Your name stays on the door. | Clause A.5. No rebrand, no renaming, and every advertisement we run names you as the licensed owner. |
| The obvious conflict is written down, not managed quietly. | We support practices and we also buy them. Clauses B.1 and B.2 say what happens to your file and why you get an independent valuation you commissioned. |
Every change to that page is dated in a change log at the foot of it. If we ever weaken one, it is on that list.
Structure
What this is, legally.
Practice IQ is a management company. It provides administrative and business support services to dental and orthodontic practices that are owned and operated by licensed dentists.
It does not practice dentistry, does not employ dentists to deliver care, and does not make clinical decisions. In almost every state it legally cannot, and the companies that blur this are the ones that end up in settlements with an attorney general.
When a practice joins on the transition side, the professional entity stays owned by a licensed dentist and we take on the business assets and run them under a written management agreement. That is the whole structure. Anyone describing it differently is describing something else.
The operating base
The back office is not being invented from scratch.
A shared-services group we already run, not a vendor we found.
Practice IQ Operations is built on SmartSource, the shared-services group one of our own principals owns. Verification, claims, aging, credentialing and vendor management run on that capability rather than on a team we are hiring after you sign.
That is common ownership, and we would rather say so. It is not an independent company endorsing us, and a badge implying otherwise would be the kind of thing this website exists to not do.
It also means the people answering for that work are the same people answering for this agreement. There is no vendor in between to point at when a claim sits unworked.
Experience
What the team has done before this.
The question that matters when someone proposes to run the business side of your practice is whether they have built and run an operating platform before. Here is what this team has already done.
- Led and scaled high-growth companies across several industries
- Completed mergers, acquisitions and strategic transactions
- Built and managed national and international organisations
- Raised capital and structured complex financing
- Built scalable operating platforms rather than single businesses
- Operated across the United States, Canada and Mexico
- Built partnerships with institutional investors and industry groups
- Deployed technology and automation inside operating companies
More than 125 years of combined executive experience across healthcare, technology, finance, operations, mergers and acquisitions, and international business development. Each of the lines above belongs to a person on this team, and you meet them on the first call rather than a representative.
The people
You deal with a principal, not a representative.
The twenty-minute call is taken by one of the principals of this company. There is no sales floor here, no business development team working a list, and nobody reading you a script that somebody you will never meet wrote for them.
Whoever you speak with is one of the people who wrote the six terms and who answers for them afterwards. That is deliberate. The person making a commitment to you should be the person who has to keep it.
Ask who you are speaking to and what they own. If a company will not tell you who is going to be running the business side of your life's work, that is the answer to the question.
Why the contract first
Because a promise cannot be checked and a clause can.
Every company in this category promises a doctor keeps control. None of them will show you the clause that makes it true, and the reason is arithmetic rather than malice.
The larger groups already have hundreds or thousands of practices signed under agreements without those protections. Publishing a stronger set of terms would re-price every one of them, so they will not do it, and no amount of goodwill changes that arithmetic.
We publish ours instead of a brochure. It is the one thing in this category a competitor cannot copy without going back to every practice they have already signed.
Ask us the hard question first.
Who the capital is, how the fee works, what happens to your team, what the real timeline is in your state. Ask it on the first call, before you have spent anything. You get a straight answer.