SALT Dental Partners, a portfolio company of Dallas-based Latticework Capital Partners, announced that it expanded its portfolio with the acquisition of Ashmore Orthodontics.
Ashmore Orthodontics operates out of two locations in Washington: Port Orchard and Bremerton. According to its website, there is one physician on staff (Dr. Jennifer Ashmore).
Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, SALT Dental Partners is a dental partnership organization specializing in specialty pediatric dentistry and orthodontics. It has more than 90 locations across 13 states nationwide.
Marking SALT’s 12th acquisition of the year, this deal strengthens SALT’s footprint in the Pacific Northwest. The financial terms were not disclosed.
According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this transaction represents the 464th Physician Medical Group acquisition of 2025, and the 222nd in the dental specialty. There were 242 dental transactions reported in 2024, and 180 reported in 2023. This also marks the seventh dental practice to be acquired in Washington since the start of 2025. Dental accounts for the largest portion of PMG transactions announced since the start of the year at nearly 48%. It also represents nearly 12% of all the 1,926 healthcare transactions announced so far in 2025.
Other active buyers in the dental space include MB2 Dental Solutions (15 deals), Imagen Dental Partners (12 deals), Specialized Dental Partners (12 deals), U.S. Oral Surgery Management (eight deals) and Phase 1 Equity (seven deals).
