SALT Dental Partners, based in Phoenix, Arizona, announced that it was expanding its presence with the purchase of Riverdale Park Pediatric Dentistry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Riverdale Park Pediatric Dentistry is a five-physician pediatric dental practice with one location in Riverdale Park, Maryland.
SALT Dental Partners is a dental partnership organization focused on specialty pediatric dentistry and orthodontics with more than 90 locations across 13 states throughout the country. SALT is a portfolio company of Latticework Capital Partners, a Dallas, Texas-based private equity firm.
This marks SALT Dental Partners’ eighth acquisition of 2025. Previously, it acquired practices in Idaho, Washington, Ohio, New York, Oregon and Washington, D.C. In 2024, the company announced one acquisition.
According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this transaction represents the 371st Physician Medical Group (PMG) acquisition of 2025, and the 185th in the dental specialty. At just shy of 50%, dental accounts for the largest portion of PMG transactions announced in 2025. More than 53% of dental transactions have been completed by a private equity firm and/or a portfolio company since the start of the year.
There were 242 dental transactions announced in 2024, and 180 in 2023. This also marks the 22nd PMG and ninth dental practice to be acquired in New York since the start of 2025.
