Premier Care Dental Management: The DSO Behind Dental365

In 2014, a Long Island dentist named Dr. Scott Asnis opened a single storefront dental office in Park Slope, Brooklyn, betting that retail-style convenience — extended hours, walk-ins welcome, locations on prime corners — could work in dentistry the way it had in urgent care. A little over a decade later, the management company behind that bet, Premier Care Dental Management, supports more than 150 dental practices across the Northeast and has pushed into Ohio, backed by a middle-market private equity firm that paid a reported $440 million for the platform. For investors tracking dental consolidation in the country's densest, most competitive metro market, this is one of the more instructive case studies of how a regional DSO scales.

Overview

Premier Care Dental Management (PCDM) is a New Hyde Park, NY-based dental support organization — the company prefers the term "Dental Clinical Organization" — that provides management and support services to general and specialty dental practices across the Northeast and, more recently, Ohio and Pennsylvania.¹

The platform is meaningfully smaller than national consolidators like Heartland Dental or Aspen Dental, but that is the point: PCDM is a regional density play. Rather than spreading thin across 40 states, it has concentrated general and multi-specialty practices in the New York metropolitan area and adjacent Northeast markets, where referral loops between its general offices and its owned specialty practices (oral surgery, endodontics, pediatric, orthodontics, TMJ) can actually function.

The entity structure matters here, because PCDM is not a single consumer brand. It is the management layer behind a family of clinical brands, the largest of which is Dental365, the retail-forward general dentistry brand concentrated in the New York metro area. PCDM also supports Beacon Dental Health (New England), Leading Edge Oral Surgery, and a roster of pediatric, orthodontic, and specialty practices that retained their own names after joining the platform.¹ In practice, trade press and company materials use "Dental365" and "Premier Care Dental Management" almost interchangeably — the 2021 recapitalization was announced as a Dental365 transaction — but for diligence purposes, PCDM is the management company and Dental365 is its flagship brand.

Dr. Asnis co-founded Dental365 in 2014 with Dr. David Kim and continues to lead the organization as CEO of Premier Care Dental Management.² The company describes itself as dentist-founded and dentist-led at every level — a positioning it shares with much of the current generation of DSOs, but one that in PCDM's case is anchored by a founder who spent roughly 30 years in private practice before building the platform.¹

Company Snapshot

• Company: Premier Care Dental Management (PCDM)
• Flagship brand: Dental365; also supports Beacon Dental Health, Leading Edge Oral Surgery, and named specialty practices
• Headquarters: New Hyde Park, NY (Long Island)
• Founded: 2014 (first Dental365 office, Park Slope, Brooklyn)
• Founder & CEO: Dr. Scott Asnis, DDS (co-founded with Dr. David Kim)
• Footprint: Company-reported 150+ supported practices; approximately eight states (NY, NJ, CT, PA, OH, NH, MA, RI)
• Ownership: The Jordan Company (majority, via Resolute Fund V, 2021); Regal Healthcare Capital Partners and The Cambria Group hold minority stakes
• Reported 2021 deal value: Approximately $440 million (trade-press reported)
• Model: Multi-specialty DSO — general, pediatric, orthodontics, oral surgery, endodontics, periodontics, TMJ
• Employees: Estimated 1,000–5,000 (company-reported range)

Footprint Analysis

PCDM's footprint numbers require some care, because the company reports "practices" and "offices" at different times and the count has moved quickly.

The cleanest dated snapshots come from transaction announcements and award submissions. At the July 2021 recapitalization, Dental365 operated nearly 70 locations across the New York metropolitan area, Connecticut, and New Jersey, with over 400,000 annual patient visits, more than 165 dentists, and over 800 staff.² By September 2022, after acquiring the eight-office Dental Care New Jersey group, PCDM reported 106 supported general and specialty offices across five states — New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.³ Its 2024 Inc. 5000 profile listed 115 practices in six states.⁴ The company's current corporate site claims more than 150 general, pediatric, orthodontic, and specialty practices across the Northeast, and its January 2026 press materials list locations in eight states: New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.¹

Taken together, that is a roughly 2x expansion in supported locations in about four and a half years under The Jordan Company's ownership — a brisk but not reckless pace by DSO standards. Per-state office counts are not publicly disclosed, and it is worth noting that the newest states (Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire) likely represent thin initial footholds rather than established density. Deal-tracking reporting on PCDM's Ohio activity suggests the company had built to roughly ten general dentistry offices plus a specialty practice in the Toledo area by mid-2026, which would make Ohio its first meaningful market outside the Northeast corridor.³

The core of the platform remains the New York metro area: Brooklyn, Manhattan, and especially Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk counties), where Dental365 branch density is highest and where the company's owned pediatric, orthodontic, oral surgery, and TMJ practices cluster.¹

Growth History

PCDM's growth has come in three recognizable phases.

Phase 1 — De novo retail (2014–2018). The original Dental365 playbook was building branded, retail-style offices in high-visibility locations — "Main and Main," in Dr. Asnis's phrasing — with evening and weekend hours and walk-in availability.¹ The urgent-care-style access model differentiated the brand in a market where most private practices kept banker's hours. Early growth concentrated in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Long Island.

Phase 2 — Sponsor-backed affiliation (2018–2021). Regal Healthcare Capital Partners, a New York healthcare PE firm whose co-founder Dr. David Kim was also a Dental365 co-founder, backed the company's expansion as its institutional sponsor. During this period the platform increasingly grew by affiliating established general and specialty practices — many of which kept their names — alongside continued de novo openings. By mid-2021 the platform had reached nearly 70 locations and, per the company, had nearly doubled in size each year since founding.²

Phase 3 — The Jordan Company era (2021–present). In July 2021, an affiliate of The Jordan Company's Resolute Fund V signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dental365 from the founding shareholders and Regal, in a transaction trade press reported at approximately $440 million.⁵ Dr. Asnis rolled equity and continued as CEO; Regal and its founders retained minority stakes, and The Cambria Group appears as a minority co-investor in the current capital structure.⁶ Under TJC, the acquisition cadence picked up: the eight-office Dental Care New Jersey group in August 2022 (crossing the 100-practice mark), a steady flow of single- and multi-office additions tracked by healthcare acquisition monitors — including a reported batch of eight dental practices and an endodontics practice in August 2025⁶ — and the push into Ohio, where PCDM acquired Woodville Dental Care in late 2025 and Great Smiles Family Dentistry in Toledo in January 2026.¹

The precise mix of de novo openings versus acquisitions across the platform's history is not publicly disclosed, but the recent pattern is clearly acquisition-led, with the company's practice-transition marketing aimed squarely at retiring and scaling-back owner-dentists.

Competitive Landscape

In its home market, PCDM competes with a distinct set of Northeast-focused consolidators rather than head-to-head with the national giants.

The most direct analog is The Smilist, another Long Island-headquartered DSO that has rolled up general practices across New York and neighboring states. In New England, where PCDM operates through Beacon Dental Health, the incumbent regional platform is 42 North Dental, the Gentle Dental parent that has consolidated practices across Massachusetts and surrounding states for decades. A newer clinician-led entrant, Archway Dental Partners, is building a partnership-model group in the same Northeast geography. National platforms — Heartland Dental, Aspen Dental, Dental Care Alliance — all have Northeast locations, but none has PCDM's branded retail density in the New York metro core.

PCDM's differentiation rests on three legs: the consumer-facing Dental365 brand (most regional DSOs operate as invisible holding companies behind legacy practice names), the access model (extended hours, walk-ins, emergency care), and the in-network specialty referral ecosystem across its seven clinical divisions. The counterweight is that the New York metro area is arguably the most saturated, highest-cost dental market in the country — real estate, wages, and marketing costs all run hot, and independent practices remain deeply entrenched.

Market Position

For investors, PCDM is best understood as a maturing regional platform in the middle innings of a sponsor hold. The Jordan Company acquired the business in 2021 out of Resolute Fund V; by typical middle-market hold periods, a liquidity event — a sale to a larger sponsor, a continuation vehicle, or a strategic combination — would plausibly enter the conversation in the 2026–2028 window, though the company has signaled nothing publicly and dental platform exits have been slow across the industry since interest rates repriced DSO leverage in 2022–2023.

Three things stand out in the diligence picture. First, the platform's growth math is credible: dated third-party snapshots (70 locations in 2021, 106 in 2022, 115 in 2024, 150+ company-reported today) show consistent expansion without the blitz-scaling that has strained some peers.⁴ Second, the Ohio expansion is a strategic tell — it suggests the Northeast core is approaching the density where incremental acquisitions get expensive, and that management is testing whether the Dental365 playbook travels to lower-cost Midwest markets. Third, the founder is still running the company twelve years in, which is increasingly rare at this scale and matters for continuity through any transition.

Open questions remain. PCDM does not publicly disclose revenue, EBITDA, same-store performance, payer mix, or its practice management technology stack, so outside assessments of unit economics rest on inference. And its geographic breadth — eight states, but with unknown depth in the newest five — means the "150+ practices" headline number deserves a closer look in any actual diligence process.

TMR Take: For operators, PCDM is one of the more credible transition partners in the Northeast — a dentist-led platform with a real consumer brand, in-house specialty referrals, and a founder-CEO who still practices the pitch he sells; owner-dentists weighing offers should compare its brand-conversion approach against groups that leave practice names untouched. For vendors, the platform's scale (150+ practices, centralized New Hyde Park management) makes it a legitimate enterprise account in the New York market, though its technology stack is not publicly disclosed and procurement runs through the management company, not individual offices. For investors, PCDM is a well-constructed regional density play approaching a natural inflection: a 2021-vintage sponsor hold, a founder still at the helm, and a fresh Midwest expansion that will either validate the model's portability or reveal that its economics were always a New York story. Watch the Ohio build-out and any sponsor-level activity closely.

The Northeast remains one of the most active regions for dental consolidation, and the players are moving quickly. For profiles of the other platforms shaping the market, see how PCDM's peers stack up, starting with our profile of Great Expressions Dental Centers.

Sources

1. Premier Care Dental Management / Dental365 — company websites, press releases, and location disclosures.

2. Regal Healthcare Capital Partners — transaction announcement.

3. Group Dentistry Now and PrivSource — DSO deal roundups and acquisition tracking.

4. Inc. 5000 — Premier Care Dental Management company profile and rankings.

5. PE Hub and Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute — private equity transaction reporting.

6. Private Equity Stakeholder Project and The Cambria Group — healthcare acquisition tracking and portfolio disclosures.