Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in learning more about opportunities at UDA.

Contact us:

• Silvestre Gonzalez, Director of Operations for UDA, 336-409-2837 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Dr Ray Garrison, President of UDA, 336-716-2166 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Why Affiliate / Merge an Existing Practice with University Dental?

• Growth – Capital – Risk Sharing
• Partnership in management model
• Management expertise
• Information systems
• Organizational structure
• Increased value in Professional Corporation
• Strengthened succession plans

Advantages to Joining University Dental:

• Mentoring early in practice career
• Quality Assurance / Peer Review assures continuous quality improvement
• Advice and counsel of peer group on clinical issues
• Do not have to “know it all” – clinical value from each doctor
• Offer patients convenient hours
• Emergency care provided by trusted peers
• Share management and practice decisions
• Share financial risk and reward
• Continuity and perpetuity for the practice – an enduring organization
• Common patient treatment guidelines
• Common patient record

When a Group Affiliates:

• Dentists own and control their professional corporation
• The PC enters into a “Service Agreement” with ADPI to provide management services and growth capital
• The dentist and ADPI enter into a partnership in which there is shared governance through a joint policy board

What Does ADPI Do?

• Bring value to dental group business by providing management, systems and capital to help each of our affiliated dental groups become the market-leading, high quality dental provider in its community.

Affiliated Dental Groups:

• Have affiliated with ADPI
• Share governance, financial risks and rewards with ADPI
• Maintain their own local identity and autonomy
• Are nationally recognized dental groups
• Are committed to high quality patient care and service
• Provide comprehensive and often multi-disciplinary care