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- Dental Patient Care America, Inc. Dental Patient Care America, Inc. (DPAT) organizes independent dentists into a cooperative model of contractually networked dental practices, enabling over 750 member dentists to access collective benefits including supply purchasing programs, laboratory and operating services, insurance and employee benefits, profit-sharing opportunities, preferential business financing, dental practice transition funding, and various dental patient marketing initiatives such as employer and group dental care plans; the company also offers dental benefit plans through its subsidiaries Dental Cooperative and ERC Dental Associates, LLC. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, it serves the U.S. dental industry by empowering independently owned practices to compete effectively while maintaining autonomy amid industry consolidation trends. Recent disclosures include its annual report for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed in March 2025, alongside supplemental 15c2-11 information in May 2024 covering 2023 operations, reflecting ongoing regulatory compliance and operational updates in a sector experiencing heightened M&A activity and private equity investments in dental services.