ETS Dental

What ETS Dental does

ETS Dental is a specialized dental recruitment firm founded in 1982 that connects dentists with dental practices across all 50 states, operating for over four decades as a niche-focused placement service. The firm canvasses the entire United States and maintains inside connections for practice acquisitions, serving both individual dentists seeking placement and dental practice owners seeking talent, partners, or practice sale opportunities. Its core asset is a proprietary database of more than 9,500 dentist interviews used for candidate sourcing, compensation benchmarking, and market intelligence.

The firm's product surface extends beyond pure placement into an adjacent service ecosystem built through subsidiaries and referral partnerships. Subsidiaries include ETS Vision, Tech-Ops, ETS OBGYN, ETS Pediatric, and ETS Family Medicine, replicating the dental recruitment playbook into adjacent healthcare verticals. Referral partners include Ken Gauvey Law for immigration and visa services, InterviewStream for online interview preparation tools, and Matsco (Wells Fargo) and Bank of America for practice acquisition financing, creating a full-stack offering for placed candidates and acquiring practices.

ETS Dental's business model is a professional services placement fee structure on successfully filled roles and practice transactions, with revenue generated per placement rather than through recurring enterprise contracts. The firm operates with a small team of 1-10 employees despite its nationwide geographic coverage, relying on deep domain expertise, long-tenured practice relationships, and content marketing (active blog) as primary demand generation channels. No external funding, institutional investors, or disclosed financial metrics are present in the available data.

Name

ETS Dental

Legal name

ETS Dental

Website

https://etsdental.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ETS Dental is a specialized dental recruitment firm founded in 1982 that connects dentists with dental practices across all 50 states, serving both candidates seeking placement and practice owners seeking talent or acquisitions through a proprietary database of 9,500+ dentist interviews.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Roanoke

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Recruitment/Placement Fees: ETS Dental charges dental practices (the hiring authority) for recruitment and placement services. Candidates are served at no cost. The company identifies, vets, and places dentists and dental specialists with matching practices.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ETS Dental is a specialized dental recruitment firm that connects dentists and dental specialists (endodontists, oral surgeons, orthodontists, pediatric dentists, prosthodontists, periodontists, and general dentists) with career opportunities, including associateships, partnerships, and ownership positions at dental practices across the United States. The firm personally interviews and screens every candidate, matches treatment philosophies and career goals to practice culture, and confidentially facilitates practice sales. Supporting offerings include a searchable online job portal, a dental license verification service, and an InterviewStream-powered online interview practice tool.

Product overview

ETS Dental is a focused dental recruitment firm offering a unified service portfolio centered on connecting dental professionals with career opportunities. The core offering combines practice talent matching, candidate career placement, and practice sale facilitation services. Supporting modules include a job search portal for browsing opportunities by specialty and location, a dental license verification service, an online interview practice tool powered by InterviewStream, and a news/insights content hub providing career guidance and industry intelligence. All services are oriented around the national dental recruitment lifecycle from candidate discovery through placement and practice transitions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ETS Dental Recruitment Services A specialized dental recruitment service that connects dentists and dental specialists (endodontists, oral surgeons, orthodontists, pediatric dentists, prosthodontists, periodontists, and general dentists) with associateships, partnerships, and ownership opportunities at dental practices across the United States.
• Practice Talent Matching Service for dental practices that identifies and vets dentists and dental specialists matching the practice's technical needs and cultural fit for associates, partners, or buyers.
• Candidate Career Placement Service that works with dentists from residency completion through experienced practitioners to find associateship, partnership, or ownership opportunities matching the candidate's career goals, treatment philosophies, and professional objectives.
• Practice Sale Facilitation Confidential brokerage service that connects buyers and sellers of dental practices using the firm's established industry contacts and inside knowledge of practices considering acquisition.
• Job Search Platform Online portal that allows dental professionals to search opportunities by specialty (Endodontist, General Dentist, Oral Surgeon, Pediatric Dentist, Periodontist, Prosthodontist, Practice for Sale) and U.S. state, with account features to save searches and set job alerts.
• Dental License Verification Service to verify dental professional licenses across different states for practices considering hiring new associates or partners.

Quantifiable outcome

• 19% projected growth in dentist employment by 2026 according to Bureau of Labor Statistics, creating increased demand for dental recruitment services

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Ken Gauvey Law PracticeminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerImmigration law firm providing guidance on visa sponsorship for dental practices hiring foreign national dentists. Ken Gauvey's firm assists with J-1 waivers, H-1B visas, and permanent residency sponsorship processes for international dental professionals.
• Matsco (Wells Fargo)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDental-specific lending institution offering practice financing programs for dentists. Recommended to dental graduates and early-career dentists seeking financing for practice acquisition.
• Bank of AmericaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommercial bank referenced as an alternative dental-specific lender offering practice financing programs for dentists seeking practice ownership or acquisition.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• CHG Healthcare: Large healthcare staffing company providing locum tenens, permanent placement, and credentialing across multiple specialties. Comparable in business model to ETS Dental but operates at enterprise scale across the broader healthcare workforce.
• Jackson Healthcare: National healthcare staffing and recruitment firm with specialty-driven placement brands. Comparable to ETS Dental as a healthcare-recruiting operator, but at far greater scale and across multiple verticals.
• Merritt Hawkins: Established physician and advanced-practice recruiting firm and AMN Healthcare subsidiary focused on permanent physician search. Direct overlap on permanent physician/dentist placement but with a much wider client footprint and brand.
• AMN Healthcare: One of the largest U.S. healthcare staffing companies covering physicians, allied health, and nursing. A scaled incumbent operating in the same healthcare-recruitment category as ETS Dental but with vastly broader scope and technology stack.
• CompHealth: Large national healthcare staffing and recruiting firm offering locum tenens and permanent placement across multiple specialties. Overlaps with ETS Dental's permanent placement offering as part of a much broader healthcare staffing portfolio.

Direct peers

• iHire Dental: Vertical job-matching platform for dental professionals offering resume hosting, job alerts, and employer postings. Closely comparable business model to ETS Dental's job search platform and serves the same dual-sided dental market.
• DentalPost: Dental-focused job board and career network connecting dental professionals with practices. Direct competitor to ETS Dental on the candidate-sourcing side, with overlapping end customers (dental practices) and professionals (dentists, hygienists, specialists).
• The Medicus Firm: Specialist physician and healthcare recruitment firm offering permanent placement services to practices and health systems. Directly comparable professional-services recruiting model targeting healthcare employers and clinicians.
• PracticeMatch: Physician and advanced-practice recruitment platform connecting candidates with healthcare employers nationwide. Comparable dual-sided recruitment business with online job search plus concierge placement services akin to ETS Dental.
• ETS Vision: Sister recruiting firm under the same ownership umbrella focused on vision care / optometry recruitment. Operates an identical specialist-recruiting model to ETS Dental in an adjacent healthcare vertical.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/etsdental
• Facebookfacebook.com/ETSdental
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ets-dental
• Instagraminstagram.com/etsdental
• Pinterestpinterest.com/etsdental

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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