Studio Dental

Name

Studio Dental

Legal name

Studio Dental

Website

https://studiodental.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Dental Services

NAICS

Offices of Dentists (621210)

SIC

Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

General Dentistry Group Practices (HLABAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Prosthodontic & Restorative Group Practices (HLABAKAH)

Keywords

• General dentistry services
• Preventive dental care
• Cosmetic dentistry
• Restorative dental procedures
• Dental hygiene services

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Dental Services Revenue: Studio Dental generates revenue by providing dental care services including routine check-ups, cleanings, and complex restorative procedures. Services are billed individually, with insurance reimbursement flowing through PPO dental plans and patients responsible for co-pays and out-of-pocket costs based on their coverage.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Studio Dental operates a single-location dental practice at 27 Taylor St in San Francisco, delivering comprehensive dental care including routine check-ups, professional cleanings, restorative procedures, and cosmetic dentistry. Services are billed individually with insurance reimbursement through PPO dental plans and patients responsible for co-pays and out-of-pocket costs. The practice serves individuals directly through phone-based new patient booking and online self-serve scheduling for returning patients.

Product overview

Studio Dental is a single-location dental practice in San Francisco offering comprehensive dental care services. The practice operates from an award-winning brick and mortar studio designed by Montalba Architects, providing services including new patient consultations, routine check-ups and cleanings, dental hygiene care, and advanced restorative procedures with Extended Function assistants. The practice accepts PPO dental plans from major insurance providers including Aetna, Ameritas, Beam, Cigna, Delta Dental, Guardian, Lincoln, MetLife, Principal, and UnitedHealthcare. Appointments are managed through phone calls for new patients and online booking via dental4.me for returning patients seeking routine care.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Brick and Mortar Dental Practice Studio Dental's primary dental practice at 27 Taylor St, San Francisco, offering a full range of dental services (preventive, restorative, and cosmetic) in an award-winning, architect-designed studio, targeted at professionals and Bay Area consumers with PPO dental coverage.
• New Patient Appointments Initial consultation appointments for first-time patients joining the practice. New patient appointments cannot be scheduled online and must be booked by calling 415-527-0263 directly.
• Routine Check-Ups and Cleanings Recurring preventive dental examinations and professional cleanings for existing patients, available to self-schedule online through the dental4.me booking platform (dental4.me/studiodental/1).
• Dental Hygiene Services Professional dental cleanings and preventive oral health care delivered by Registered Dental Hygienists (RDH), focused on thorough cleanings and patient comfort.
• Extended Function Restorative Procedures Advanced restorative dental procedures performed by Registered Dental Assistants with Extended Functions (RDAEF), enabling hands-on clinical care in complex restorative treatments beyond standard assistant scope.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Rock HealthminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013During the ideation phase in 2013, after selling Washington Square Park Dental, Dr. Boyer and the early team joined Rock Health, a first-of-its-kind digital health accelerator. The accelerator helped the team build the new Studio Dental business with expert guidance across design, technology, and healthcare.
• dental4.mecoreTechnology or IntegrationStudio Dental uses the dental4.me platform for its online patient booking system. Returning patients can self-schedule routine check-up and cleaning appointments directly through the dental4.me/studiodental/1 portal. This is the primary digital scheduling infrastructure for existing patients.
• Montalba ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMontalba Architects, led by David Montalba, has designed multiple Studio Dental spaces across the company's history — the original Washington Square Park Dental (2008–2013), the award-winning mobile studio 'The Trailer' (2014–2017), and the current brick-and-mortar headquarters at 27 Taylor St (opened 2018). Montalba Architects is known for iconic projects including Nobu Malibu and Erewhon Santa Monica.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• dental4.me: dental4.me is the third-party online booking platform Studio Dental uses for returning-patient self-scheduling. It is comparable as an infrastructure/enabling technology provider for modern dental practices rather than a competing practice.
• Quip: Quip is a consumer dental-products company (electric toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, refill subscriptions) that targets the same design-conscious, urban-professional consumer demographic as Studio Dental. It is comparable as an adjacent brand in the "modern dental consumer" category rather than a direct clinical competitor.
• Rock Health: Rock Health is a digital health venture fund and accelerator that supported Studio Dental's ideation phase in 2013. It is comparable as an ecosystem enabler (capital, mentorship, network) that helped shape Studio Dental's early go-to-market, rather than as a competing operator.

Broad incumbents

• Smile Brands: Smile Brands is a dental support organization supporting ~700 affiliated offices under brands including Smile Brands, Bright Now! Dental, and Castle Dental. It is broadly comparable as a multi-brand general-dentistry group-practice operator, though its positioning is mainstream rather than premium or design-led.
• Aspen Dental: Aspen Dental is a national DSO with hundreds of branded offices across the U.S., offering general and specialty dentistry with a focus on access and affordability. It competes for the same general-dentistry patient base as Studio Dental, but at much larger scale and with an in-network, high-volume positioning rather than a premium urban-studio positioning.
• Pacific Dental Services: Pacific Dental Services is one of the largest DSOs in the U.S., supporting hundreds of dental practices with business operations, technology, and clinical support. It overlaps with Studio Dental in the practice-operations layer (general dentistry, insurance billing, multi-provider group practice), though at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• Heartland Dental: Heartland Dental is the largest dental support organization in the U.S., providing non-clinical support to a network of more than 1,700 offices. As a DSO backbone for general-dentistry group practices, it represents the scaled, institutional counterpart to Studio Dental's boutique group-practice model.

Regional players

• Western Dental & Orthodontics: Western Dental operates hundreds of dental and orthodontic offices predominantly in California, including the San Francisco Bay Area. It is comparable as a California-focused general-dentistry group-practice operator with overlapping patient geography, though it competes on access and insurance-network breadth rather than premium experience.

Direct peers

• Tend: Tend operates multi-location, design-forward dental studios in major U.S. cities (NYC, DC, Boston, Atlanta, Nashville, etc.) with a hospitality-grade patient experience, transparent pricing, and a tech-enabled booking flow — a direct conceptual peer to Studio Dental's premium urban-studio model, scaled to multiple markets.
• Modern Dental of Manhattan: Modern Dental is an independently-owned, design-forward dental practice in New York City offering general, cosmetic, and restorative dentistry with a hospitality-style patient experience. It is closely comparable to Studio Dental as a single-city, premium-positioned general dentistry practice serving urban professionals.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/studio-dental

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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