Meet the companies behind the group

Founded in 1971 as the Billericay Dental Supply Shop, Dental Directory has grown from a small mail-order business into a major UK dental supplier.

Today, it supports dental and aesthetics professionals with products, equipment, engineering, training, compliance and pharmacy services.

Dental Directory sits at the heart of DD Group, and provides much of the experience and infrastructure behind the Group’s continued European growth.

Founded in 2018, Fox Pharma has grown into a specialist supplier to the UK aesthetics market, combining a strong product portfolio, with training and digital support for practitioners.

Fox Academy, launched in 2019, provides CPD-accredited professional training. Fox Pharma joined DD Group in 2026, expanding the Group’s specialist capability in aesthetics.

For more than 35 years, Microminder has specialised in technology for dental practices.

Its expertise spans managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud services, communications and wider practice technology, helping dental teams work securely and reliably.

Microminder joined DD Group in 2026, adding specialist technology capability to the Group’s established dental, equipment, and engineering expertise.

Dental Medical Ireland has supported the Irish dental market for more than 20 years.

The business supplies practices across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland with dental products, equipment, specialist advice, installation, and engineering support.

DMI joined DD Group in 2024, combining its established local relationships with the wider Group’s scale and capabilities.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Belgium, DPI serves dental professionals across several markets in continental Europe.

Alongside dental distribution, the business has developed specialist capability in laboratory services, equipment, engineering, and practice solutions.

DPI joined DD Group in 2023, becoming the Group’s first major platform in continental Europe.

E-Aligner offers dental practices a 100% French clear aligner solution. Clinically proven, the system is designed to give practitioners a simple, effective and personalised way to treat their patients.

Since 2019, when it was acquired by DPI, E-Aligner has been offered to practices by DPI’s teams in France and Belgium. The approach is built on personalised support and on listening closely to the needs of practitioners and their patients, including a complete 3D evaluation and visualisation of treatment, so patients can see their corrected teeth before they begin.

Through DPI, E-Aligner is part of DD Group, adding specialist orthodontic expertise to the Group’s European platform.

Utrecht Dental has specialised in dental equipment and practice development since 1974.

Today, its expertise covers equipment, engineering, imaging, hygiene solutions, and complete practice design and installation.

The business joined DD Group through DPI in 2024, adding decades of specialist equipment knowledge to the Group’s growing European platform.

Founded in 2021, U-Dental brings Utrecht Dental’s expertise to the Belgian market.

The business supports practices with equipment, engineering, practice design and installation, combining specialist technical knowledge with local customer support.

U-Dental became part of DD Group through DPI in 2024.

Sigma’s roots go back to 1995 in Annecy, France.

Following the 2019 merger of Sigma Dentaire and PC Net + Santé, the business brought together dental equipment expertise with specialist IT, software, imaging, cloud, and digital capability.

Sigma Net Santé joined DD Group through DPI in 2024, strengthening the Group’s presence and specialist capability in France and Switzerland.

Founded in Tuscany in 2007, Eli-Dent has grown into an established dental distributor serving customers across Italy.

Its investment in people, logistics, technology, and e-commerce includes a 5,000 m² operational facility in Tuscany.

Eli-Dent joined DD Group in 2025, adding deep knowledge of the Italian market to the Group’s expanding European platform.

Shoreability provides specialist outsourced support to dental practices, helping teams manage more of the behind-the-scenes operational work.

Part of the Microminder family, it complements Microminder’s technology capabilities by combining people, technology and operational support.

Shoreability became part of DD Group alongside Microminder in 2026.

McKillop specialises in dental equipment, installation, engineering, and practice development.

Its teams support customers through projects ranging from new surgery planning and fit-out, to ongoing equipment servicing and maintenance.

McKillop joined DD Group in September 2024, bringing additional equipment expertise, and strong local customer relationships into the Group.

MedFx has supplied the UK aesthetics market since joining DD Group in 2006, long before the sector reached the scale it has today.

It brings clinics market-leading botulinum toxins, dermal fillers, skin peels and cosmeceuticals, alongside the gloves, masks, disinfectants and surgery consumables that every clinic runs on.