Who owns the dentists, eye doctors and vets in Wake Forest, NC?

Which Wake Forest practices are private equity backed, corporate-owned or owned by their own clinicians, with the group and a source for each label.

• 41 dental practices: 9 PE-backed (22%) and 28 with no known PE ties.
• 16 eye care practices: 7 PE-backed (44%), 2 corporate-owned and 7 with no known PE ties.
• 5 locations of the vet chains we track: 3 PE-backed and 1 corporate-owned.

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Wake Forest dentists

PE-backed 9 Not confirmed 4 No known PE ties 28

22% of Wake Forest’s dental practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above North Carolina as a whole (8%) and the US (7%).

The largest group is Heartland Dental, backed by KKR and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, with 4 of the 41 dental practices here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Supremia Dentistry (Smile Brands).

Groups here: Heartland Dental (4) · Smile Brands (2) · Guardian Dentistry Partners (2) · Deca Dental (1) · SALT Dental Partners (1) · Riccobene Associates Family Dentistry (1) · The Aspen Group (TAG) (1) · Lightwave Dental (1)

Wake Forest eye doctors

PE-backed 7 Not PE, corporate-owned 2 No known PE ties 7

44% of Wake Forest’s eye care practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above North Carolina as a whole (12%) and the US (6%).

The largest group is MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services), backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Charlesbank Capital Partners, with 7 of the 16 eye care practices here.

Groups here: MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services) (7) · Retina Consultants of America (RCA) (1) · Target Optical (1)

Wake Forest vets

PE-backed 3 Not PE, corporate-owned 1 VC-backed, not PE 1

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Wake Forest Animal Hospital (EverVet Partners).

Groups here: Community Veterinary Partners (CVP) (1) · Banfield Pet Hospital (1) · PetVet Care Centers (1) · Petfolk (1) · EverVet Partners (1)

We track the vet chains and groups, not every independent practice, so a practice not listed here hasn’t been checked.

Every listed practice in Wake Forest

† From an individual dentist’s or doctor’s NPI record; it may not be an open office.

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