Mia is a health-tech company revolutionizing dental care. We bring general dentistry to your doorstep and make orthodontics affordable with Mia Aligners.
Plants. Depots. Distribution centres. Stores. Contact centres. Whatever your operational footprint, we bring the chair to where your people already are, across multiple sites, across multiple provinces, on a six-monthly cycle. Productivity up. Absenteeism down. The dental benefit your workforce actually uses.
National footprint, single contract.
Multi-site deployment supported.
From signed agreement to first chair live.
A 4-page PDF tailored to multi-site SA employers: provincial coverage map, multi-site rollout schedule, claims integration, cash-plan/medical-aid coverage, workforce-realities playbook. Sent within one business day.
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For operational workforces, the cost of off-site dental access isn’t a single visit, it’s the lost productivity, missed shifts and presenteeism that compound over a year. The dental cover is being paid for. It’s the access layer that’s broken.
Off-site dental appointments don’t fit how operational workforces actually live. A 9am appointment is a missed shift. A factory worker can’t leave the line. A contact-centre agent can’t step away from queue. So the appointment doesn’t happen, until something hurts, and then it’s an emergency. By then you’ve already paid for it three times in presenteeism and absence.
The fix is structural. Bring the chair to the site. Same six-monthly cycle the medical aid is structured around. Self-service booking that respects shift patterns. Same clinician, same care.
~5 days
Average paid time impact across presenteeism, missed shift and emergency visit if the issue escalates before being treated.
Most workforce-wellness providers were built for a single campus or a once-off wellness day. Mia at Work was built for operators with five, ten, twenty-plus sites across South Africa, and the operational reality that goes with them.
Workers use the dental benefit they’ve had all along. Toothache catches at routine visits, not when it’s already a missed shift. Absenteeism reports shift visibly within the first cycle.
National operating footprint covering every province your sites are in. One signed agreement covers the lot, head office to peripheral depot to coastal distribution centre.
From signed agreement to first chair on site. Rest of the footprint scheduled in waves on the same cycle. We’re built to deploy.
Single rolled-up reporting across the footprint, benefit utilisation, attendance, aggregate clinical findings. Group HR sees the whole picture; site HR see their site only.
A single signed agreement covers head office, plants, distribution centres, stores, contact-centre buildings. Six-monthly cycle per site. Wellness days attended where they fall. One reporting dashboard rolled up to group HR.
A single signed agreement covers your full operational footprint, head office, plants, distribution centres, stores, contact-centre buildings. We schedule the six-monthly cycle per site, attend wellness days where they fall, and roll a single reporting dashboard up to your group HR / People function.
The same clinical team, the same protocols, the same patient-experience standard at every site, whether you’re rolling out to two locations in Johannesburg or twenty across the country.
Operational workforces don’t skip dental care because they don’t value their health. They skip it because the system was never built around how they actually work. Four common realities, recognisable across plants, depots, stores and call centres.
For shift workers, drivers and production-floor staff, a 09:00 dental appointment isn’t an inconvenience, it’s a missed shift, a docked wage, an angry shift lead. So the appointment doesn’t happen.
Many operational workforces are on cash plans (Sanlam Reality, Day1, Bonitas BeatIt), not full medical aid. Workers often don’t know what their plan covers for dental. We handle both scheme and cash-plan integration.
Distribution hubs, peripheral plants and rural depots are often a 40+ minute drive from the nearest dental practice. Our self-contained mobile units bring full preventive and restorative care to the site itself.
Toothache at work is presenteeism, not absence. The worker who showed up but isn’t focused, isn’t safe at the line, isn’t on form on the call. By the time it lands on the absentee report, you’ve already paid for it three times.
If two of these sound familiar, you have an access problem, not a benefits problem.
Get the operational briefThe leadership behind Mia at Work, clinical, operational, account-side. The same team across your full footprint, not a rotating roster per site.
Co-founder. Architect of the connected Mia ecosystem. Leads strategic multi-site accounts personally.
Co-founder and Chief Dental Officer. Sets the clinical standard for every site deployment, every province.
Mobile-clinic operations across the national footprint. Coordinates the deployment schedule, consumables, technician roster, site by site.
The single point of contact for your group HR team. Onboarding across sites, comms templates, booking-portal setup, escalation.
Mia at Work meets every regulatory and operational standard a large SA employer would expect of an on-site healthcare provider. Cleared for a multi-site procurement review.
Every clinician on every site is HPCSA-registered. Practitioner numbers available on request.
Mia Healthcare is a member of the South African Dental Association.
Aggregate utilisation to HR; individual records private to the patient. Full DPA available.
Live with Discovery, Momentum, Bonitas, GEMS, plus Sanlam Reality, Day1, BeatIt and the major cash plans.
Comprehensive professional indemnity and public liability insurance per deployed unit. Cover details for procurement review.
Quarterly rolled-up dashboard across the footprint. Group sees the whole picture, sites see their site only.
Three steps from yes to first site live. Rest of the footprint follows in waves on the same operational cycle.
You receive the 4-page PDF tailored to multi-site SA employers. Optional 30-min call to walk through your site list and provincial spread.
A Mia operations lead visits your priority sites to confirm logistics, space, power, parking, shift patterns, scheme/cash-plan mix.
Within 14 days. The remaining sites are scheduled in waves on the same six-monthly operational cycle, with a single roll-up dashboard for group HR.
Our mobile units are self-contained, they bring their own power, water, dental chair and operatory setup. The site doesn’t need to provide more than a parking bay and a private space for patient interaction (an HR meeting room is enough). We’ve deployed to distribution hubs and peripheral plants 40+ minutes from any urban centre. Remote isn’t a blocker.
We integrate with both. Major medical schemes (Discovery, Momentum, Bonitas, GEMS) are claimed directly. Cash plans (Sanlam Reality, Day1, Bonitas BeatIt, Liberty Day1 and similar) are handled per the plan’s rules, sometimes direct-claimed, sometimes a co-payment model with a workplace-payroll deduction. No worker is ever turned away for plan-mix reasons.
The booking platform respects shift patterns, workers book slots that fit their shift, not the other way around. For 24/7 sites, we run extended on-site hours (typically 06:00 to 18:00) on visit days so day shift, late shift and handover staff all get access without missing work. Standard mobile-unit setup; no extra cost.
Yes, and we have experience working with the major SA unions. The service is structured as a workforce benefit (not a productivity initiative), claims run through the worker’s existing health-cover arrangement, and the booking platform is voluntary opt-in. Union engagement is standard before deployment at unionised sites.
We operate across all nine provinces. The deployment is scheduled in waves, typically starting with anchor provinces (Gauteng, Western Cape, KZN), then expanding to the rest of the footprint over the first six-monthly cycle. The same clinical protocols, same booking platform, same reporting dashboard at every site. One contract, one team, every province.
For smaller sites (under ~50 workers), we cluster visits with nearby sites in the same six-monthly cycle, or attend the site once a year and use a wellness-day attendance for the off-cycle visit. The economics work down to surprisingly small headcounts because the medical-aid claims do the heavy lifting on revenue, not site density.
A 4-page PDF, tailored to multi-site SA employers. Provincial coverage map, multi-site rollout schedule, claims integration, cash-plan/medical-aid coverage, workforce-realities playbook. Sent within one business day.
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