Practice Partnering Programs
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

Partnering Programs