A Dental Partnership Organization · 100% Dentist-Owned
Your practice.
Your name.
One rising tide.
We are dentists who built the partnership we wished existed. You keep your brand, your team and every clinical decision. You gain equity in the whole network, a vote in how it is run, and the operational depth of a national group behind you.
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Why Rising Tide
Not a support organization. A partnership of owners.
Most groups buy practices and manage dentists. We do the opposite. Dentists own Rising Tide, dentists lead it, and every partner shares in what all of us build. There is no outside investor between you and the outcome.
How partnership works →Owned by the dentists in it
Every partner doctor holds equity in the whole network, not just their own four walls. When a practice in another state grows, your stake grows with it.
A vote, not a voice
Partner doctors vote on how Rising Tide is governed. Clinical standards are written by practicing clinicians and reviewed by the doctors who live with them.
Your name stays on the door
Decentralized by design. Your practice keeps its brand, its team and its relationship with the community you spent a career earning.
Founders who still see patients
Rising Tide was founded in 2024 by practicing dentists. They still practice. The people setting direction feel the same pressures you do, on the same day.
The Partnership
Keep what you built. Gain what you could not build alone.
You keep
- —Every clinical decisionMaterials, treatment philosophy, schedule. Yours.
- —Your brand and your teamThe name on the door and the people behind the desk stay.
- —OwnershipYou remain a principal in your practice and become a partner in the whole.
- —Your legacyA succession path for your practice and a way to reward the associates who helped build it.
You gain
- +Equity across 33 practicesA stake in the entire network, and a liquidity event we reach together.
- +The business, handled in-houseFinance, revenue cycle, HR and people, payroll, marketing, IT and compliance run by a team that works for the doctors.
- +Scale where it countsShared purchasing and payer negotiation that a single practice cannot get on its own.
- +A room full of peersClinical mentorship and honest numbers from partner doctors in 11 states who want you to win.
Twenty minutes with a founding dentist. No brokers, no pitch deck.
We show you how we value your practice and what partnership would look like for you.
You become an owner in Rising Tide. Your practice becomes part of the tide.
Growth is credited to the team that earned it, at the practice level.
Founded by dentists, in 2024
The founders still practice. That is the point.
Rising Tide began when practice owners compared the offers on their desks and decided none of them were built for dentists. So fifteen of them built one. Together the founding partners carry more than 250 years of combined clinical experience.
Meet all 15 founding partners →
Practicing dentist and practice owner in New York. Built Rising Tide so partner doctors would own the outcome, not just the work.
Multi-location practice owner. Leads strategy, capital and the long view for partner doctors.
Multi-location practice owner in Hawaii. Helped build the Rising Tide clinical standards alongside his founding partners, by clinicians for clinicians.
Partner Doctors
In their words.
“After 25 years building my practice, I wasn’t ready to hand the keys to a PE firm or corporate DSO. Rising Tide let me get the support I needed without giving up what makes us special.”
“I felt like I was giving my practice away to them and then becoming their employee. When I saw Rising Tide, I liked the vision: it’s dentist owned, dentist controlled.”
“Understanding your practice value before you’re in a conversation with a buyer is the most important thing you can do.”
Our Practices
33 practices. 11 states. One name on each door, and it is not ours.
From New York to Hawaii, every Rising Tide practice kept its identity. Look for the practice you know. You will not find a Rising Tide sign out front.
For Associates
Ownership should not require buying a practice alone.
Rising Tide practices are built with a path from associate to owner. You practice alongside partner doctors who have done it, with clinical mentorship and a real route to equity, without carrying the debt and the back office by yourself.
Resources & News
Before you sign anything, read this.
Understanding the four dental practice ownership paths
What is a Dental Partnership Organization (DPO)?
Six practices join Rising Tide as a group and keep every name on every door
Start the Conversation
See what your practice is worth to a partner, not a buyer.
Tell us a little about your practice. A founding dentist, not a business development rep, will call you within two business days with a straightforward view of your valuation and what partnership could look like.