Vancouver, WA, September 18, 2019 - Smiles Services, LLC (“Smiles” or the “Company”) today completed its affiliation with Dr. Lynn Jones, DDS and her practice Bellevue’s Best Smiles, located in Bellevue, Washington. Dr. Jones will remain with the practice she founded over twenty years ago and welcomes Bellevue natives Dr. Sarah McDonald and Dr Amrit Mattu to the practice. The practice will operate under the Optima Dental Spa brand, joining affiliated practices in Lake Oswego, OR and the Pearl District downtown Portland, OR as the third Optima location managed by Smiles.
The practice affiliation in Bellevue marks Smiles’ fourth practice affiliation in 2019 and fifth since the Company’s founder, Dr. Raymond Frye, rejoined Smiles in March 2018 as CEO, bringing the Company’s total affiliated locations to 18 in Washington and Oregon.
Since rejoining the Company, Dr. Frye has brought a unique brand of management based on his vast experience as a dentist and an entrepreneur. His vision for the company is to create raving patients and raving employees - in short, raving fans of all kinds. Smiles aims to be the premier dental provider in each of the communities where it operates, offering the highest quality patient-centric general and specialty dentistry, including orthodontics, prosthodontics and oral surgery. As an employer, the Company strives to be the premier destination for mid-career dentists seeking to focus on exclusively on patient care without the hassles of practice ownership and management.
“Dr. Frye has orchestrated a remarkable turnaround of Smiles since joining the Company eighteen months ago, and Granite Bridge is pleased to be supporting the Company’s growth under his leadership,” said Jeff Gerson, Partner at Granite Bridge Partners LLC. “Bellevue is a community we have targeted for a long time and we’re glad Dr. Jones and her team chose to join the Smiles family.”
“Dr. Jones had many suitors interested in her practice, but our reputation of partnering with clinically strong doctors and providing them clinical autonomy and supportive ancillary services to focus exclusively on their patients, led her to choose us, and we couldn’t be more pleased,” said Dr. Frye, reflecting on the addition. “We’re glad to have a presence in such an explosive growth area like Bellevue, and we expect our presence there to help support our other Puget Sound practices through personnel and other resource sharing.”
Smiles is actively seeking practice affiliations with offices having at least six - eight operatories in Washington and Oregon. Interested practice owners should reach out to Dr. Ty Shoemaker, Chief Clinical Officer and President of Smiles Dental Group, P.C. for more information ty@ravingsmiles.com.
About Smiles Services LLC
Smiles Services LLC is the Pacific Northwest’s leading Dental Service Organization, managing eighteen locations in Washington and Oregon under the Smiles Dental and Optima Dental Spa brands. The company’s motto is “We go the extra Smile.” For more information, please visit www.welovesmiles.com.
About Granite Bridge Partners
Granite Bridge Partners LLC is a middle-market private equity firm that seeks to partners with and invests in management teams and their companies. Granite Bridge purchases control positions in companies with strong continuing management, high upside, discernible value, and acquisition-led and organic growth drivers. The firm differentiates with patient capital, certainty to close, and its team’s extensive experience in lower middle-market private equity. For more information, please visit https://granitebridge.com.
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