Chicago-based The Aspen Group has opened dozens of offices and made several investments into its team and patient care in the last several years.
Here are 40 updates from The Aspen Group and its subsidiaries since 2023:
2026
1. Aspen Dental plans to open an office in Bastrop, Texas.
2. Aspen Dental opened two offices in Georgia and New Jersey.
3. Aspen Dental integrated VideaHealth’s Clinical Assist AI platform into its more than 1,100 dental practices.
4. Greenwood Village, Colo.-based ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers opened a location in Albany, N.Y.
1. Aspen Dental’s network of independent practice owners grew by about 15% year over year.
2. Aspen Dental opened 21 new practice locations and recorded more than 5.2 million patient visits in 2025.
3. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers treated more than 27,500 implant patients and expanded into three new markets.
4. Aspen Dental opened locations in Texas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.
5. Michael Jimenez, DDS, and Armen Grigoryan, DDS, joined the company as clinical directors of implant support.
6. Aspen Dental partnered with Forward Science, an oral health-focused biotechnology company, to add PerioStōm, a non-drug periodontal therapy, to its practices.
7. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers launched a program to help patients save on dental implant treatments.
8. The Aspen Group added Planmeca’s digital imaging technology to its network.
9. ClearChoice Dental Implant Center launched First Look, an AI-powered simulator that allows patients to preview potential treatment results.
10. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers launched its Endura Elite full-arch restoration.
11. The Aspen Group partnered with the National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias to provide free dental care to patients with ectodermal dysplasias.
12. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers opened locations in Michigan, Florida and Hawaii.
13. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers set a goal for itself of transforming 1 million lives by 2030 with its treatment.
14. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers introduced a lifetime warranty on full-arch zirconia prostheses.
2024
1. Aspen Dental opened offices in New York, Texas, Nebraska, North Carolina, Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland and Indiana.
2. Aspen Dental reached the 10-year mark of expanding access to dental care through its social impact programs.
3. Aspen Dental reached the 20-year milestone of its Practice Ownership Program.
4. Aspen Dental and Royal Philips partnered to bring Philips Sonicare products to Aspen Dental’s network of practices.
5. The Aspen Group celebrated its first completed year of TAG University, its educational arm aimed at providing clinical, business and leadership training to providers.
6. The Aspen Group named Lauren Svoboda its vice president of learning optimization.
7. The company promoted Lori D’Anna to the role of president of field operations.
8. The Aspen Group partnered with Women Employed and Midwestern Career College to launch an initiative to help low-income women join the dental workforce.
9. The company launched a marketing campaign celebrating its clinician-focused investments.
10. Aspen Dental appointed Kimberly Jones as vice president of hygiene operations.
11. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers reached the 100-practice milestone.
11. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers opened an office in Pennsylvania.
12. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers appointed Jerry Asamoah as its COO.
2023
1. Aspen Dental opened offices in California, Nevada, Louisiana.
2. The Aspen Group appointed Hyung Bak as chief legal and compliance officer.
3. The Aspen Group launched TAG University to offer educational opportunities to providers and staff across its five brands.
4. Seattle-based University of Washington School of Dentistry partnered with Aspen Dental dentists to offer its students a chance to gain clinical experience in a DSO setting.
5. The office of Adam Marina, DDS, in Topeka, Kan., was the first Aspen Dental affiliate to use the Yomi dental implant robot system. It was also the first dental practice in the state to implement the robot.
6. Aspen Dental began offering membership plans for uninsured patients at select offices.
7. Aspen Dental was included on Newsweek‘s “America’s Greatest Workplaces 2023 For Diversity” list.
8. ClearChoice Management Services named Brandon Allison as its next CFO and Philip Auerbach as its next chief commercial officer.
9. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers appointed Rahma Samow CEO.
10. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers selected Theresa Wang, DDS, as the company’s chief clinical and development officer.
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