Enable Dental

Enable Dental

Mobile on-site dental care for seniors

Overview

Enable Dental brings dental care directly to patients who can’t easily visit a clinic, serving seniors in facilities, homebound individuals, and people with special needs. Its mobile clinical teams set up a full dental operatory at the patient’s location using portable chairs, handheld X-ray units, and wheeled dental units, delivering exams, X-rays, cleanings, fillings, extractions, crowns, bridges, root canals, and dentures. The company partners with senior living facilities, health plans, payors, and healthcare organizations, and uses a centralized Austin-based center to handle scheduling, billing, and care coordination, with teledentistry and software tools added through the Healier acquisition to streamline treatment coordination. Its aim is to expand access to comprehensive dental care for underserved populations and improve health equity by providing scalable, on-site dental services.

About Enable Dental

Simplify's Rating
Why Enable Dental is rated
C
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated D+ on Differentiation

Industries

Healthcare

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$16.3M

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

2017

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What believers are saying

  • March 2026 expansion reached over 1,100 senior living communities nationwide.
  • June 2026 health-plan integration keeps Enable Dental embedded in reimbursed patient pathways.
  • August 2026 content updates signal active demand generation across caregiver and assisted-living channels.

What critics are saying

  • Medicare Advantage and PACE reimbursement concentration exposes revenue to contract renegotiations by 2027.
  • Portable chairside dentistry needs clinician logistics; staffing shortages break service coverage quickly.
  • Large incumbents like dental DSOs and home-health platforms can copy partnerships and squeeze margins.

What makes Enable Dental unique

  • Enable Dental built a portable operatory model serving seniors and I/DD patients.
  • March 2026 partnerships span 1,500 communities and 25 PACE programs nationwide.
  • Healier acquisition in May 2022 strengthened scheduling, billing, and teledentistry workflows.

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Funding

Total Funding

$16.3M

Meets

Industry Average

Funded Over

3 Rounds

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Life Insurance

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

0%
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LifeCircles PACE
Mar 7th, 2024
Making Dental Care Accessible

LifeCircles PACE has collaborated with Enable Dental to offer its members access to essential dental care that may have previously been challenging for them to obtain.

Enable Dental
Sep 13th, 2023
Protected: We're Proud to Announce the Release of Inside Doc's Toothlopedia Book Series Vol 1 & 2, Authored by a Dentist on Our Team

Protected: Enable Dental, Inc is proud to announce the release of inside doc's toothlopedia book series vol 1 & 2, authored by a dentist on its team.

EIN News
Feb 8th, 2023
Enable Dental Appoints Jocelyn Lyons as Senior Vice President of Finance

AUSTIN, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, February 8, 2023 / EINPresswire.com / -- Enable Dental is pleased to announce the appointment of Jocelyn Lyons as Senior Vice President of Finance.

Associated Press
May 5th, 2022
Enable Dental Acquires Healier Inc. to Expand At-Home Dental Care

Press release content from Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.

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