{{short description|British dental company}} {{for|the US company based in Oklahoma City|My Dentist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
'''mydentist''' is the largest dental provider in the UK, with around 600 practices.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-17 |title=Mydentist: seeking acquisitions from practice owners - Dentistry Online |url=https://dentistry.co.uk/2020/12/17/looking-ahead-practice-acquisitions/ |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=Dentistry.co.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref> mydentist is a trading style of IDH Group Limited, based in Kearsley.<ref>{{cite web |title={my} dentist |url=https://www.mydentist.co.uk |website=mydentist |accessdate=29 January 2019}}</ref> Nilesh Pandya is the Chief Executive of mydentist.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mydentist appoint new chief executive |url=https://dentistry.co.uk/2023/02/07/mydentist-appoint-new-chief-executive/ |website=Dentistry |date=7 February 2023 |access-date=29 April 2023}}</ref>
{{Infobox company | name = mydentist | type = Private | location_city = Kearsley, United Kingdom | area_served = UK | key_people = Tom Riall <br /> (executive chairman), Nilesh Pandya <br /> (chief executive officer), Richard Storah (chief financial officer), Will Smith (chief operating officer), Libby Jones (chief people officer), Reena Virdee (director and strategy and M&A), Dr Nyree Whitley (chief clinical officer)<ref name="x1">{{cite web|url= https://www.mydentist.co.uk/about-us/key-personnel |title=Mydentist key personnel |publisher=mydentist |accessdate= 2024-02-13}}</ref> | homepage = {{Official URL}} | owner = Palamon Capital Partners }}
mydentist treats a mixture of private and NHS patients. In 2018, it treated more than four million people.<ref>{{cite news |title='Mydentist is listening, Mydentist is changing' |url=https://www.dentistry.co.uk/2018/10/26/mydentist-listening-mydentist-changing/ |accessdate=29 January 2019 |publisher=Dentistry.co.uk |date=26 October 2018}}</ref> In 2022 this increased to over five Million people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=mydentist.co.uk {{!}} Over 600 Dental Practices Throughout The UK |url=https://www.mydentist.co.uk/about-us |access-date=2022-03-19 |website=www.mydentist.co.uk}}</ref>
==History== It runs an annual clinical conference, which in 2018 was attended by more than 600 dentists and dental professionals.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-30 |title=Connecting dentistry – the Mydentist Clinical Conference |url=https://dentistry.co.uk/2020/01/30/connecting-dentistry/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |website=Dentistry.co.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2022, the company announced the clinical conference coming back after a break during covid <ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-09 |title=Registration opens for Mydentist Clinical Conference - Dentistry |url=https://dentistry.co.uk/2022/06/09/registration-opens-for-mydentist-clinical-conference/ |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=Dentistry.co.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref>
In January 2019 Matt Hancock visited its surgery in Mildenhall and said: “Companies like MyDentist play a really important role in delivering a good service to keep our nation’s teeth strong.” Hancock was criticised because the firm charges higher than average fees for private dentures. Its private dentures cost £878 compared to £256.50 on the NHS. Jon Ashworth said: “Surely the priority should be expanding access to NHS dentistry for everyone, not endorsing private for the better off.” Tom Riall said the firm was developing "an affordable range of private dentistry because so many practices are closed to NHS patients.”<ref>{{cite news |date=28 January 2019 |title=Health Secretary backs private firm profiting from patients who can't get an NHS dentist |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/health-secretary-backs-firm-profiting-13919995 |accessdate=29 January 2019 |publisher=Mirror}}</ref> Healthwatch Suffolk and the British Dental Association both pointed out that patients on low incomes rely on NHS dentistry but in the area of Bury St Edmunds the nearest surgery taking adult NHS patients was ten miles away and what was on offer from the company was not affordable for them.<ref>{{cite news |date=26 January 2019 |title=Health secretary Matt Hancock urged to prioritise NHS treatment after backing private Access mydentist scheme |url=https://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/matt-hancock-urged-to-prioritise-nhs-care-9060019/ |accessdate=29 January 2019 |publisher=Bury Free Press}}</ref>
The company was acquired by Palamon Capital Partners from The Carlyle Group in May 2021.<ref>{{cite news |date=28 May 2021 |title=New investment group buys out Mydentist |url=https://dentistry.co.uk/2021/05/28/new-investment-group-buys-out-mydentist/ |access-date=28 July 2021 |publisher=Dentistry}}</ref> In 2022, IDH Group sold DD (Previously known as Dental Directory) to Sun European Partners.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-23 |title=Palamon Capital Partners and IDH Group sell DD Group |url=http://www.privateequitywire.co.uk/2022/05/23/314747/palamon-capital-partners-and-idh-group-sell-dd-group |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=www.privateequitywire.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>
In February 2021, mydentist invested £1.2 million in a new practice in Railway Road, Blackburn merging together 3 previous practices into 1. This meant that practices at Preston New Road, Blackburn and Langham Road, Blackburn closed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Two dental surgeries to close as £1.2million merger and makeover takes place |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/19949597.two-blackburn-dental-surgeries-close-merger-takes-place/ |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=Lancashire Telegraph |date=25 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Major new dentist surgery opens following £1.2 million investment |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/20063982.blackburn-dentist-surgery-opens-following-1-2-million-investment/ |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Lancashire Telegraph |date=13 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
In February 2022, mydentist expanded its Coalville practice into a new premises in a £700,000 investment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mack |first=Tom |date=2022-02-04 |title=New tenant to fill vacant unit in Coalville's Belvoir Centre |url=https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/new-dentists-fill-vacant-unit-6598294 |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=LeicestershireLive |language=en}}</ref>
In June 2022, mydentist opened a new orthodontic practice in Grimsby in a £400,000 investment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Laister |first=David |date=2022-06-17 |title=MyDentist opens orthodontic care centre in Grimsby |url=https://www.business-live.co.uk/professional-services/mydentist-opens-orthodontic-care-centre-24247220 |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=Business Live |language=en}}</ref>
In September 2023 mydentist relocated a practice in Lancaster in a £2.1m investment.<ref> {{Cite web |last=wilson |first=chloe |date=2023-09-27 |title= MyDentist relocates to new site after £2.1m investment |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mydentist-relocates-2-1m-investment-040000812.html |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=yahoo |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== *Private healthcare in the United Kingdom
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:Dental companies of the United Kingdom Category:Health care companies of the United Kingdom Category:Dentistry in England Category:The Carlyle Group companies