Who Owns Dentrix?

Larry M. Gibson founded Dentrix Dental Systems in American Fork, Utah, in 1985. The company's defining move came in 1989, when it released the first dental practice management system written for Microsoft Windows, while the rest of the industry ran on DOS and proprietary terminals. Dentrix was also the first dental system approved for Windows 98, a lead in GUI-era software it converted into market share through the 1990s.

Henry Schein acquired the company in 1997, when Dentrix had an installed base of about 3,500 practices. Under Henry Schein the software grew into a product family: the core Dentrix practice management system for single and small group practices, Dentrix Enterprise launched in 1999 for multi-location groups, hospitals, schools, and federally qualified health centers, and an imaging line later sold to DEXIS in 2007.

Cloud delivery arrived with Dentrix Ascend in April 2014, a browser-based system requiring no local servers. In April 2018 Henry Schein and Internet Brands formed Henry Schein One, headquartered in American Fork with roughly 1,500 employees at launch, folding Dentrix and its siblings into a single dental technology company. By 2017 Henry Schein reported more than 35,000 installed Dentrix systems in the US and Canada, and the product remains the reference platform against which competing dental software is sold.