Mia is a health-tech company revolutionizing dental care. We bring general dentistry to your doorstep and make orthodontics affordable with Mia Aligners.
Mia Aligners is South Africa’s clear-aligner system, designed for dentists who haven’t started offering aligners, or have only done a handful, from the simplest of cases through to the most complex. Clinical case selection, team training, planning support, and a local team of experienced clinicians on call when you need a second opinion. You’re not on your own.
Clinician-led aligner system built in South Africa
Mentorship, lunch-and-learn, weekly clinical review.
20% discount on your first approved case
A 30-second form. We'll come back within one business day with the next step, typically a 30-minute discovery call with one of our clinicians, tailored to where your practice is now.
You’ll work with the clinicians, treatment planners, lab and coordinators directly, not through a queue. The person who plans your case is the person who picks up when you have a question chairside.
Mia co-founder, and still running Mia Aligner cases in her own practice today. Drives the clinical standard with a passion for South Africa, aesthetic dentistry and serving patients with the best possible treatments.
The latest addition to our team, stepping in as leading orthodontist after one of our founding members: Dr Petra van der Merwe, moved to Namibia. Brings a wealth of experience in both fixed and aligner treatments.
The doyen of South African ortho-lab products. Developed the country’s first aligner system with Dr Mark Bowes over 15 years ago, that depth of knowledge, case history and market-leading orthodontic-treatment integrations now sits behind every Mia case.
Worked alongside Dr Petra for years on all her cases and became deeply specialised in the planning software, all the tricks and AI protocols that bring your smiles to life. Creative yet responsible, with the judgement to add real value to your first cases.
Treatment planner out of the Adam Labs team. Day-to-day output, scan-to-plan workflow, attachment placement, staging, and the back-and-forth on plan revisions until it’s right.
The person who keeps your account moving, onboarding, case status, refinement requests, peer-event invites and support escalation. The single point of contact when you need something done.
Clinicians, treatment planners, lab and coordinators, all in one team, all on local time. See the full Mia team
Your patients are already asking. You’re already losing the cases. But adding aligners isn’t just about closing one revenue gap, it’s a step that pays back across your patients’ lives, your clinical work, and your practice’s economics. All three are part of the same decision.
A patient walks into your practice for a routine check-up unsure whether to ever smile in photos again. Twelve months later they leave with the smile they didn’t think they could have, or afford. That’s the kind of outcome you went into dentistry to give them. Aligners are one of the highest patient-confidence-lifting treatments in dentistry.
Life-changing, on a Tuesday afternoonYou stop being “just a general dentist” and become a clinician who delivers aligner therapy. New conversations with patients. New scope of skill. Real professional growth across the next decade of your career. Backed by a Mia clinical team for the cases where a second pair of eyes belongs.
A whole new chapter, professionallyA steady, high-margin aligner revenue stream alongside your existing services, sourced from the patient database you already have. No extra marketing spend to start. No separate orthodontic associate. The economics start working in the first six months and compound from there.
Revenue your business already had on the table
The reason all three dimensions move at once is that the patient demand is already inside your practice, it just hasn’t had a workflow yet. Mia gives GP dentists the clinical safety net, the team training, and the planning support to start safely, build a workflow the team can actually run, and turn that latent demand into measurable momentum.
What you don’t need: a complicated business case, a separate orthodontic associate, or a learning curve you walk alone. What you do need is a clinical partner who’s done this with dentists like you, dozens of times.
Of a typical SA GP practice has at least mild aesthetic mal-alignment within scope of aligners.
From first onboarding call to a steady aligner revenue stream alongside your existing services.
Activate the patients already in your database before paying for anything new.
These are the exact worries we hear from new-to-aligner dentists in discovery calls. Each one has a specific answer in the Mia system, not a sales pitch, a workflow.
The biggest worry is picking a case that's too complex for a first attempt, and watching it not track. Refinements, re-impressions, a patient losing confidence.
Case selection is a team decision. Every first case is reviewed by our clinical planning team before treatment starts, we tell you if it’s a safe starter or one to refer. You don’t pick alone.
Aligners aren't only a clinical workflow. Your receptionist has to talk to patients. Your assistant runs the scans. Your treatment coordinator handles the quote and the follow-up.
Lunch-and-learn for the whole team. Role-by-role workflow scripts for reception, assistants and treatment coordinators. Patient communication templates ready to use from day one.
You're four aligners in. Something doesn't look right on the upper canine. Your patient's next appointment is in three days. Who do you call?
Direct WhatsApp to a senior clinician. Weekly clinical review slots built into the support stack. A planning team that takes the diagnostic work off your plate, so you focus on chairside delivery.
Three fears, three concrete answers. Want to see how it works in your practice?
Start your aligner journeyYour first case is supported by a team that’s lived inside thousands of them.
Two decades of clinical experience between the clinicians who'll plan your case.
Mia’s refinement rate vs 50% international industry. Your first case is far more likely to finish the way it was planned.
Industry-standard precision matching the market leader. Each tray fits exactly the way it was designed.
South African clinicians, South African production, South African time zone. The support is on a local number.
Every aligner case is planned and approved by an HPCSA-registered clinician, no algorithm-only plans. The treatment protocols were built by Dr Petra van der Merwe across thousands of South African mouths, then made even sharper by the latest AI orthodontic tech, trained on those same Mia protocols.
Want this team behind your first case?
Start your aligner journeyEvery new provider gets the full first-case support stack, plus access to our CPD-bearing education library. Nothing held behind a paywall. Nothing in an “upgrade for more support” tier. You get the lot.
One of our clinicians walks you through case selection, treatment planning and chairside delivery for your very first case. Calls scheduled, not optional.
If you don't have a scanner yet, we'll help you get clean impressions in. If you do, our team handles upload, stitching and case-prep so you don't fight software.
We come to your practice, or join virtually, and train reception, assistants and treatment coordinator on the aligner workflow. One session, the whole team aligned.
Email templates and SOPs to activate your existing patient database, many of your current patients are already considering aligners. We help you reach them with the right message.
Bad scans cause delays, refinements and frustration. We train you and your team on the scan-quality standards Mia needs to plan a clean case the first time.
A standing weekly slot to bring complex cases or mid-treatment questions to a senior clinician. No additional fees. Built into the support.
All of this comes with your first case. No upsells, no upgrade tiers.
Start your aligner journeyNo long onboarding. No 12-page contract. The path from this page to a planned first case is genuinely three conversations.
Tell us about your practice, where you are, what experience you have, whether you have a scanner. 30 seconds. We respond within one business day.
A call with one of our clinicians. We look at your patient base, walk through the support stack, and decide together if Mia is the right fit. No pressure, no quotas.
Lunch-and-learn for the team, your first case selected together, planning support all the way through delivery. You're a Mia provider on the other side of one case.
Start with step one. It takes 30 seconds.
Start your aligner journeyCase-selection cheat sheet, patient-conversation scripts, scan-quality reference card and database-activation email templates. Drop your email and we’ll send the PDF the moment it’s ready.
The worst thing that can happen on your aligner journey is your provider quietly exiting the country after you’ve invested in their workflow. Mia can’t do that, we’re a South African company with no corporate parent to pull the plug.
R&D, treatment-planning protocols and clinical IP are SA-based.
Aligner production runs at Adam Labs, in-house, no overseas shipping cycle.
A South African clinical team, registered with HPCSA and SADA, on local time.
No foreign parent. No quarterly board deciding whether SA is “still strategic.”
Practice visits, peer-review groups, CPD events, all hosted in South Africa.
Most providers in our network started exactly where you are. The system was designed for that.
What dentists want to know before their first case, case selection, scanner requirements, fees, the clinical safety net. If yours isn’t here, WhatsApp us.
Two things happen. First, refinements are included in the standard case price, if the plan needs adjusting, we re-scan, re-plan and re-print without an upcharge. Second, every first case is pre-screened by our clinical team for tracking risk before treatment starts. If a case is at the limit of what aligners can do, we’ll tell you up front, before you commit your patient. The combination means a non-tracking first case is far less likely than the internet would have you believe.
No, you can start with conventional impressions and we’ll convert them. We do recommend an IOS once you’re running 1 to 2 cases a month because it transforms the experience for you and the patient. We can also advise on which scanner to consider when you’re ready, and most major brands work with our workflow. Don’t let the scanner question delay your first case.
Case pricing is competitive with leading international systems, usually better at low volumes because there are no quota games. No setup fee. 20% discount on your first approved case. The specific number depends on the case complexity and the patient experience options you choose. We give you the actual numbers on the discovery call once we’ve seen your case mix, not a quote-form auto-reply.
You don’t have to. Our planning team does the heavy lifting on case design, attachments and staging, you focus on chairside delivery. As you build confidence we ramp up your involvement at your pace. The free CPD library has the underlying theory if you want to go deeper, but it’s never a prerequisite for running a Mia case.
That’s exactly what we discuss on the discovery call, before you start, we look at the kinds of cases that walk into your chair and we’re honest about which are safe for a first case and which are best referred to a specialist (or to one of our senior clinicians). Clinical judgement isn’t traded for case-acceptance numbers. If a case is at the limit of what aligners can do for that patient, we’ll tell you.
You have a direct line to a senior clinician via WhatsApp, voice notes, screen-share, photos. Plus a standing weekly clinical review slot where complex questions get worked through with a peer. If a plan genuinely needs to be taken over, one of our senior clinicians can step in to manage it from there. No patient is ever abandoned mid-treatment. That is the entire point of the support stack.
Still weighing it up? Ask us directly on the call.
Start your aligner journey
One short form. One discovery call. One first case, fully supported. From there, you build a steady aligner revenue stream that compounds inside the practice you already run.
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