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The vendors dentistry's veterans have vetted.

A curated collective of paradigm-shifting companies: salivary and advanced diagnostics, AI-driven software, and the consultants who put both to work. Most are early enough that you will not find them at a trade show yet.

This is the dental industry's most curated, technologically advanced network of vendors, backed by one of the few venture funds dedicated to oral health and by relationships that go back generations. Nothing like it exists in dentistry.

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Trusted Partners

Companies you have not seen yet.

Some of these are already in practices. Others are months from launch — being early is the point.

For Practice Owners

Be the practice that had it first.

Exclusive access to the technologies about to change how dentistry is practised — and a way to be known in your area for having them before anyone else does.

See it before the floor does

An educational route to the technologies that are about to matter — salivary diagnostics, AI-driven software, preventative tools that did not exist two years ago. We see them early because one of the few venture funds dedicated to oral health feeds us its deal flow.

Plant your flag

Exclusive access to distinguish your practice in your own area. Offer something genuinely new as one of the first in your zip code and it becomes yours to be known for.

Better outcomes, not just better margins

Most of what is in here is preventative. Technologically advanced care management changes what happens to the patient, and that is the part worth adopting for.

A practice that runs better

Operational efficiency and growth, not one more layer of overhead to manage. If it makes the day harder, it does not get listed.

Know who picks up the phone

Every vendor is marked founder-led or manager-assigned, so you know before you buy whether your point of contact is the person who built the thing or someone assigned to your account. Most other channels never tell you.

The adopter badge

Practices that adopt get a badge, and we point patients searching for that technology at the practices that have it. Someone querying for a continuous saliva sensor near them should find you.

Advisory Seats

They are looking for advisors.

The companies coming to market want people who have actually run a practice sitting alongside them. Not capital — judgement. Those seats are usually open, and nobody advertises them.

They want industry people

Emerging companies need someone who has actually run a practice to tell them what is wrong with the product. That seat is an advisory one, and it is usually open.

It is a real role

Advisory seats come with terms — what you are expected to give, over how long, and what vests when. Worth understanding before you say yes to one.

We make the introduction

Tell us the categories you care about and we will put you in front of the founders working in them. No finder's fee, no obligation.

Events

The room, not just the listing.

DDS Vendors is part of the DDS Collective. We believe the connections worth having are made in a room, not in an inbox — so we put practice owners and the people building for them in the same one.

The next dates are being scheduled. Ask us and we will hold you a seat.

Why Choose Us

Harder to get into than the Ivy League.

Nobody gets listed by filling in a form. Vendors are turned down on fit, on saturation, or for not being forward-facing enough — and the ones who get through are the ones we would put in our own practice.

Unique positioning
A clear reason to exist, and a reason it is this company rather than the four others doing something adjacent.
A compelling story
Why it was built, by someone who can tell you. Ideally we are talking to the founder.
Meaningful impact on ownership
Something that changes what it is like to own and run a practice, not a feature that changes a screen.
An operational enhancement
Work that makes an office run better. If it adds overhead, it is not a fit however good the technology is.
Experienced or emerging
Both get in. Emerging technology gets the closer look, because that is where the fund's deal flow points us first.
Sentiment we can verify
We measure sentiment from our community pilot testers before we admit anyone — or we have known them for the better part of a generation, since we came out of the dental supply world.
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The Team

Meet the team.

Built by proven industry experts, PhDs and founders, and powered by the most sophisticated ecosystem of vendors and stakeholders in dentistry. These are the people who decide who gets listed.

Darius Somekhian

Founder

Darius Somekhian

Founder, DDS Vendors · Fund Manager, oral-health VC

Thirty years in dental, from scaling the largest talent marketplaces in the industry to running one of the few venture funds dedicated to oral health — a seat that puts him in front of emerging tech years before it reaches a trade show floor. The longest-standing doctor and specialist recruiter in dentistry, with 17 years placing clinical talent.

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Shivam Bhatia

Technology Advisor

Shivam Bhatia

Founder & CEO, Clinsight.ai · Technology Advisor, DDS Vendors

Founder of Clinsight.ai, building AI for healthcare growth, hiring, and retention. Previously built and scaled venture-backed startups across healthcare, fintech, and recruiting.

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Brian Passell, Ph.D.

Associate Partner Recruiter

Brian Passell, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology · Practice Culture & Growth Architect

Twenty years in talent management and organizational science. An industrial/organizational psychologist by training and key business advisor by experience, from running a practice management consulting firm to building a culture-first dental search methodology.

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The Collective

Every vendor a practice actually needs.

One flat list. If a company sells into dentistry and clears the bar, it belongs to one of these.

  • Software
  • Diagnostics
  • Labs
  • Supplies
  • Consulting
  • Events
  • Revenue Cycle Management
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Training & Development
  • Mastermind Groups
  • Payments and Processing
  • Wealth Planning
  • Insurances
  • M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)
  • GPO

The Network

Part of something larger.

DDS Vendors sits inside the DDS Collective, alongside Recruit and Matchmaker. Separate logins, not one account — what is shared is the events we run together and the people who move between them.

Built for dentistry

Dentistry is small. Be vouched for.

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