Del Mar Dental Wed 18 Nov 2026 · 8:30 AM – 12:55 PM PT · Zoom Register free
Live over Zoom Del Mar DSO Virtual Dental Summit — The Future of Dentistry. Wednesday November 18, live over Zoom, with speakers from Del Mar DSO, ZEROBrush, Phase Two Ventures, AssurTek Surgical and 3Shape. Register now at ucsd.delmar.org. Free to attend

Del Mar Dental presents

Dental Summit The Future of Dentistry

Innovate. Elevate. Inspire.

A focused half-day, live over Zoom — built for dentists who own their practice and the investors backing denttech. One track, live Q&A, no exhibit hall, and more speakers being added.

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Date
Wed, 18 Nov 2026
Time
8:30 AM – 12:55 PM PT
Where
Live over Zoom
Speakers
8 confirmed + more
Cost
Free
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On stage

The people
building it

Practicing clinicians, the founders shipping the hardware, and the investors writing the checks — on one screen, taking live questions. Eight confirmed below, with more speakers being added.

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The program

Half a day,
no filler

Starts 8:30 AM PT on Zoom and wraps at 12:55 PM PT. Seven sessions, one break, and open Q&A to close — the state of the industry, where prevention is going, what is changing in the operatory, and what investors are backing.

Schedule subject to change. Additional speakers are being added, so session times may shift. The program always ends at 12:55 PM PT.

Dentistry in 2026: Practices, DSOs & Where the Industry Is Headed

A data-driven opening look at the dental industry: practice performance, DSO growth, consolidation, ownership trends, dentist economics and the forces reshaping independent practices.

State of the Dental Industry

Robert Mowry
Del Mar Dental

The Mouth as a Window Into the Body

The emerging role of oral diagnostics, microbiome testing and personalized health data in dentistry — and what these technologies could mean for prevention and patient care.

Viome

Dr. Zuckerberg
Viome

Reinventing Prevention at Home

How new oral-care technology can improve patient compliance, extend prevention beyond the operatory and create a stronger connection between the dental practice and the patient's daily routine.

ZERObrush

Akash Pai
ZERObrush

From Products to Better Patient Outcomes

A clinical perspective on prevention, patient behavior and how emerging technologies can become part of a practical dental-care protocol.

The Future of Preventive Dentistry

Dr. Nidhi Pai
ZERObrush

Break

Step away from the screen. Sessions resume at 10:45 AM PT.

Back at 10:45 AM

The Next Generation of Dental Surgery

A focused look at how surgical technology, digital workflows and new tools are changing implant and oral-surgery procedures.

AssurTek Surgical

Alicia Everitt
AssurTek Surgical

Investing in the Future of Dentistry

What investors are seeing across dental technology and healthcare innovation. Which companies are attracting capital, what makes a dental startup investable, and where the biggest opportunities may emerge over the next decade.

Phase Two Ventures

Dr. Alaynick & Dr. Morachis
Phase Two Ventures

Digital Dentistry at the Chair: From Scan to Restoration

How intraoral scanners, CAD/CAM software and digital lab workflows are replacing traditional impressions, and what that means for designing crowns, bridges, implants, aligners and dentures more efficiently.

3Shape

Jeremy Moeller
3Shape

Closing Q&A

Open questions to the speakers, live on Zoom. The program closes at 12:55 PM PT.

All speakers

Profiles

Who's on stage,
in detail

Opening speaker first, then in program order. Each profile links back to the session that speaker is leading.

Dr. Zuckerberg

Viome

Makes the case for the mouth as a diagnostic window into the rest of the body. Covers oral diagnostics, microbiome testing and personalized health data — what these tools measure, how the evidence behind them is developing, and where they sit relative to the rest of a patient's health picture.

The practical half is what any of it means at the chair: which findings should change a prevention plan, how to talk through results with a patient who arrives already holding data, and what has to be true before this belongs in a routine visit.

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Watch · Dr. Zuckerberg

Robert Mowry

Del Mar Dental

Opens the day with a data-driven read on the state of the industry: practice performance, DSO growth, consolidation, ownership trends and dentist economics — the forces reshaping what independent practice looks like heading into 2026.

Descriptive rather than prescriptive: what the numbers show about where the industry is heading, which of those trends an owner can actually act on, and which are simply weather. General principles rather than advice on any particular set of facts.

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Watch · Robert Mowry

Robert Mowry on Fox Business, 13 December 2022 · 4 min 16 sec

Akash Pai

ZERObrush

Builds at-home prevention products at ZERObrush. His session is about the gap between a hygiene protocol a patient agrees to in the chair and the one they are still following eight weeks later — and what closing that gap is worth to a practice that has already paid to acquire the patient.

The second half is unit economics: what it costs to stock, recommend and restock a prevention line, what margin survives after chair time and staff attention, and how to run it without turning the front desk into a retail counter or the hygienist into a salesperson.

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Watch · Akash Pai

Dr. Nidhi Pai

ZERObrush

Brings the clinical perspective on prevention: how patient behaviour actually determines outcomes, and how emerging oral-care technology becomes part of a working protocol rather than another product recommendation.

Practical throughout: what you hand a patient, what you can reasonably expect them to do with it, and how to tell at the next recall whether any of it is working.

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Watch · Dr. Nidhi Pai

Dr. Alaynick

Phase Two Ventures

Invests at Phase Two Ventures and shares the late-morning session with Dr. Morachis: what investors are seeing across dental technology and healthcare innovation, and which companies are attracting capital.

His half leans clinical — how a fund evaluates a diagnostic or AI claim, what evidence actually moves an underwriting decision, and how far the technology has to get before the market follows it.

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Watch · Dr. Alaynick

Dr. Morachis

Phase Two Ventures

Underwrites companies at Phase Two Ventures. His session is a candid account of what actually gets funded in this sector: what a fund is buying when it invests in a dental company, what makes it pass, and how often the deciding factor has little to do with the clinical merit of the product itself.

Aimed squarely at clinicians with an idea — what to have ready before a first conversation, what a term sheet is really asking of you, and the honest answer on when venture capital is the wrong instrument for the thing you are trying to build.

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Watch · Dr. Morachis

Alicia Everitt

AssurTek Surgical

Builds surgical navigation at AssurTek Surgical and presents the 10:45 session on how surgical technology, digital workflows and new tooling are changing implant and oral-surgery procedures.

Her half covers what navigation can and cannot compensate for, what changes in the operatory around it — setup time, staffing, the learning curve nobody quotes in a demo — and where the technology is realistically heading over the next few product cycles.

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On stage · Alicia Everitt

Alicia Everitt speaking on a panel at a Dental Venture Capital Group event

Jeremy Moeller

Sales Manager · 3Shape

Sales Manager at 3Shape, which makes digital dental technology including intraoral scanners, CAD/CAM software and digital lab workflows. Its systems let dentists scan a patient's teeth digitally instead of taking traditional impressions.

His session looks at how that technology helps dentists design crowns, bridges, implants, aligners, dentures and other restorations more efficiently, and what a practice should weigh when moving to a digital workflow.

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Watch · Jeremy Moeller

The convener

Del Mar
Dental

The dental arm of Del Mar Life Sciences, a private network of CFOs and senior financial leaders — and the group that runs this summit.

The wider network's members work in biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics and digital health, and meet to compare notes on the problems that don't have a textbook answer: how to structure a raise, when a corporate venture arm helps and when it gets in the way, what a board actually needs to see each quarter, and how to keep a benefits programme from quietly becoming the largest line item nobody reviews.

The network is convened by Robert Mowry. Del Mar Dental exists because the same questions surface in dentistry one practice at a time, with far less infrastructure around them — a practice owner evaluating a technology purchase is doing underwriting, whether or not anyone in the room calls it that.

Del Mar Dental sets the program and covers the day. There is no fee to attend. delmar.org

Fundraising strategyStructuring a raise, sequencing rounds, and what changes when the buyer is strategic rather than financial.
Corporate ventureWhen an in-house venture arm creates optionality for the parent — and when it competes with it.
Board governanceReporting that gives a board something to decide, rather than something to receive.
Pensions & benefitsPlan design, cash balance structures, and the fiduciary work that sits underneath them.
Financial operationsThe reporting cadence, controls and systems that survive a diligence process intact.
Enterprise valueThe decisions made years early that set what an operating business is finally worth.

Del Mar Dental · a division of Del Mar Life Sciences Inc. · San Diego

How to join

Live over Zoom,
from anywhere

The summit runs entirely on Zoom. One link covers every session, the break and the closing Q&A — no switching rooms, no second platform. Your personal link goes out with your registration confirmation.

  • Join early — the room opens a few minutes before 8:30 AM PT so you can check audio and video
  • Ask live — questions go through Zoom chat and raised hands, and speakers take them on air
  • Any device — desktop gives the best view of slides; the Zoom app works on phone or tablet
  • Can't stay all day — registrants get the session recordings and slides after the summit

Need captions or another accommodation? Tell us when you register, or email [email protected], and we will arrange it in advance.

Joining

Platform
Zoom
Link
Sent with your confirmation
Starts
8:30 AM PT · 11:30 AM ET
Ends
12:55 PM PT · 3:55 PM ET
Q&A
Live, via chat and raised hands
Recording
Sent to registrants
Access
[email protected]

Why it works

A working session,
not a webinar

Most dental meetings optimize for exhibit-hall traffic. This one optimizes for the odds that a practice owner gets a straight answer from the person building the thing they're evaluating.

No exhibit hallNothing to walk past. Every company on the program is on stage, taking questions in front of everyone.
Reviewed registrationPlaces go to practice owners and active investors, so the questions in the chat are as useful as the talks.
One track, one linkNo breakout rooms to choose between. Everyone hears the same thing, so the questions build on each other.
Speakers stay onPresenters join for the full program and the closing Q&A. They are not booked to drop off after their slot.

Who it's for

Two rooms,
merged into one

Registration is reviewed so the Q&A stays as useful as the talks. Places go to people in one of two groups.

  • Dentists who own their practice — weighing a technology purchase, a partner, or a sale in the next five years
  • Denttech investors — venture, angel, DSO leadership and family offices active in the sector

Not a fit: vendors looking for a booth, associates without ownership, and general recruiters. There is no exhibit hall.

The details

Date
Wednesday, 18 November 2026
Time
8:30 AM – 12:55 PM PT
Schedule subject to change as speakers are added
Where
Live over Zoom
Cost
No fee.
Registration
Reviewed. Zoom link sent on confirmation.
Questions
[email protected]

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