Here are 17 moves made by Chicago-based Aspen Dental that Becker's has reported on in 2023:
1. Three retail pads in Wareham, Mass., that include an Aspen Dental location sold for $7.6 million.
2. The American Dental Association Foundation appointed Julie Frantsve-Hawley, PhD, to its board of directors. Dr. Frantsve-Hawley serves as the executive director of the Aspen Group's Oral Care Center of Excellence.
3. The construction of an Aspen Dental location in Derry, N.H., has been completed.
4. A retail center in Oak Park Heights, Minn., including an Aspen Dental practice, sold for $5.8 million.
5. Four Corners Property Trust acquired three newly built properties in Michigan, one of which is an Aspen Dental, for $5.2 million.
6. Private buyers acquired a dual-tenet property in Chester, Va., that is leased to Aspen Dental and Sleep Number for just over $4 million.
7. Aspen Dental is building a 4,000-square-foot practice location in Augusta, Maine.
8. An Aspen Dental office in The Villages, Fla., was forced to close after a gas leak in the building.
9. Aspen Dental opened its first Nevada office.
10. Madisonville, Ky., announced a $30 million, 155,000-square-foot development project that will include an Aspen Dental location.
11. Real estate investment company Four Corners Property Trust acquired an Aspen Dental and WellNow Urgent Care dual-tenet property for $3.3 million.
12. 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.
13. Aspen Dental opened a new office in LaPlace, La.
14. Aspen Dental experienced a cyberattack on its scheduling system, but patient data and information was not compromised due to the attack.
15. A practice in Topeka, Kan., became the first Aspen Dental affiliate to use the Yomi dental implant robot system.
16. Four Corners Property Trust, a real estate investment trust, acquired an Aspen Dental property in New Mexico for $1.9 million.
17. Aspen Dental began offering membership plans for uninsured patients at select offices.