Support services
Our platform, and the people behind it
Everything a group can do that a single practice cannot, in one place.
The Mia group
The Mia group
An operating company first. Everything it runs feeds the same goal: the best possible dentistry, for as many South Africans as possible.
The businesses that make up Mia, the levers we pull for a practice, the people behind them, and the support we offer owners who are not ready to sell yet.
The practice group
Partnerships with the country's best clinicians, scaling great teams rather than collecting practices.
Mobile clinics
Preventative care inside some of the country's biggest employers and schools, under our own clinicians.
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Clear aligners
Designed for South African needs, priced for South African realities, planned and made here.
Learn moreOur own labs
Adam Labs, our in-house orthodontic lab, with plans to expand, feeding the group where it makes clinical sense.
Learn moreSix levers
Six levers we pull for your practice
Where your practice already does one of these well, we absorb it rather than replace it. The people doing that job keep doing it, with a larger team and budget behind them.
Your name stays on the door. Every lever pulls into it.
Global methodologies and networks
Coaches, community, systemsAccess to the coaches, community and systems that help practices build something extraordinary. Mia is a proud member of the Dentist Entrepreneur Organization (DEO), and its only African member.
The DEO is a dental accelerator built on an observation we share: the skills that make a great clinician are not the skills that make a great executive, and wearing both hats is where dental entrepreneurship quietly falls apart.
For your practice An international pool of clinicians, playbooks and coaches. More scale, more time for clinicians, more impact for patients.
Brand and content experts
In-house film and contentIn-house content and film capability, at a turnaround and volume no independent practice could justify.
Our partner is Visual Impact, one of South Africa's largest broadcast and film services companies, part-owned by Marius van Straaten, our friend, angel investor and Chief Marketing Officer.
For your practice The name on your door gets produced for properly, and keeps its own voice.
Dedicated specialists and teams
Marketing, finance, AI, dataMore hands working in your practice, in areas where an independent practice cannot always justify hiring:
Marketing teamsCFOs and financeAI and automationData analystsPatient experienceFor your practice People in your practice, working with your teams and driving quality. Not auditors visiting from head office.
Centralised admin functions
HR, payroll, accounts, compliancePayroll, employment contracts, management accounts, collections, POPIA and HPCSA compliance run centrally, by people who do only that.
Where your practice already has someone doing this well, they keep doing it, with our team behind them.
For your practice The work that lands on clinicians after hours moves to people whose actual job it is.
Manufacturing
Adam Labs and Mia AlignersAdam Labs, our own orthodontic lab, and Mia Aligners, a clear aligner line designed, planned and made in South Africa rather than imported. Shorter turnaround, local pricing, and a clinician on the other end of the phone.
For your practice Lab and aligner work inside the group where it makes clinical sense. Never a requirement.
Capital and scale
Institutional lines, not practice debtArguably where Mia excels most. We know capital, and we have institutional lines that independent practices do not. They pay for equipment, rooms, new sites and the buyout of a retiring partner, without a practice carrying the borrowing itself.
For your practice If you have already built something significant, this is the lever that builds legacy.
Your deal team
The people you would deal with
Co-founder and CEO
Dr Zane Stenning
Your first conversation, and your direct line throughout.
Co-founder and Chief Dental Officer
Dr Karishma Stenning
Clinical standards across the group.
Operations and Investment Lead
Dylan Gons
Runs the deal process from first visit to completion.
Chief Financial Officer
Lize Lubbe
Your numbers, the valuation and the reporting after.
Head Practice Manager
Rushda Peterson
Your practice manager's counterpart at head office.
Chief Marketing Officer
Marius van Straaten
Brand, content and patient acquisition.
Behind them: clinical advisers Dr Ian Erasmus and Dr Ishmail Amra, DEO coach Mark Lakis, tax adviser Izak Smith, and teams across finance, marketing, AI and automation, labs and aligners.
Before any sale
Not ready to sell? Plan your exit with us
In the first period together, we agree what a good exit looks like for you: when, on what terms, and at which metrics. Then we build towards it, with our marketing, systems and finance people working in your practice. The aim is a clean exit from a practice that already runs with minimal headaches.
Agree the exit
What a good exit looks like for you, and the metrics that would get you there.
Measure the gap
Where the practice stands today, and what closes the gap first.
Build towards it
Our people work alongside your team, and we check progress against the metrics together.
A clean exit
When the numbers are where we agreed and the timing suits you, the exit is straightforward rather than stressful.
What we work on together
Marketing and brand
Brand, website and content with our film partner, and patient acquisition you can track.
Patient systems
Recall and reactivation, online booking, and patient experience you can measure.
Finance and reporting
Monthly management accounts, a readable dashboard, tidy books and collections that work.
Team and operations
Clear roles, written processes, and less of the practice resting on one person, including you.
The terms of working together, including how they connect to a future sale, are agreed with you at the start.
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Where to next
Your five options
No two owners want the same thing from a sale. As clinicians, we treat that as the starting point of every deal.
For dental practice owners in South AfricaHow a deal works
What changes, when to sell, how a practice is valued, and how you get paid.
From first conversation to completionThe SA landscape
Succession, the model from abroad, and what South Africa needs instead.
The market, as we read itWhy Mia
Who we are, what we are building, and how our model compares.
Who you would be selling toClinician-led. Family-owned. South African. Built to last.
Thirty minutes, clinician to clinician, about your practice and your timing.
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