Most dentists are told there are only two choices: go it alone or sell out to corporate dentistry. Dr. Layla Lohmann and David Lohmann built Apex Dental Partners to prove that was a lie.
In this episode of The Margin Line, Joe Lynch sits down with Apex Dental Partners' co-founders to unpack how a patient who got her first crown at 12 grew up to build one of the fastest-growing DSOs in the country, landing on the Inc. 5000 list six years in a row, scaling to 65 practices, and generating $1.6M in production growth for its first doctor leadership cohort alone.
They get into:
- The "supported dentistry" model that gives doctors private-practice autonomy inside a larger organization
- Why most DSO partnerships fail, and the exact culture levers Apex pulls to retain doctors and staff
- How clinical AI is closing the confidence gap for dentists and transforming case acceptance
- The leadership development engine turning individual doctors into growth drivers
- Why technology done wrong creates burnout, and how to use it so it doesn't
What is The Margin Line?
The Margin Line explores how America's most successful dental organizations scale from single practices to multi-state empires. Host Joe Lynch, Head of Customer Success at Dandy, interviews DSO executives and industry leaders about the strategies that actually work - from first acquisitions and integration playbooks to technology bets and operational efficiency. New episodes every Tuesday.