Zahnarztzentrum.ch
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | April 1, 2003 |
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 Switzerland
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| Number of employees | 700 (2018) |
| sales | 78 million CHF (2014) |
| Branch | Health care, dentistry |
| Website | zahnarztzentrum.ch |
Zahnarztzentrum.ch (completely: zahnarztzentrum.ch AG) is a provider of dental services in Switzerland. The company has 34 locations and employs around 700 people - including around 300 dentists, specialists and dental hygienists.
history
The company was founded in 2003 by the married couple Sara and Christoph Hürlimann and managed together until 2016.
Christian Spliethoff has been CEO since 2016 and has been with zahnarztzentrum.ch since 2009. As of 2010, the private equity company G-Square participated as a minority shareholder with CHF 20 million in investment capital. Since 2015 the company has been completely family-owned by Sara and Christoph Hürlimann.
In mid-May 2020, the company management announced that the Migros subsidiary Medbase was joining zahnarztzentrum.ch as the majority shareholder. The merger was completed at the end of June 2020 after review by the Federal Competition Commission (WEKO). Medbase is an outpatient health care provider and complements the portfolio with dentistry.
The first dental center opened on April 1, 2003 in Zurich, at Hardturmstrasse 123, in the Zurich industrial area. Today the company has 34 locations in 25 cities in Switzerland (2020). Of these, 29 new practices were founded and 5 practices were acquired. Cities with more than one branch are: Zurich, Winterthur, Lucerne, Basel, Biel and Bern.
zahnarztzentrum.ch employs around 700 people, including over 300 dentists, specialists and dental hygienists. Since it was founded, more than 500,000 patients have been treated in the dental centers (2018).
Services
In addition to dental hygiene and general dentistry, the range includes oral surgery, implantology and anesthetic treatments, as well as orthodontics and pediatric dentistry in most centers.
According to the company, the dentists at Zahnarztzentrum.ch work according to the principles of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and minimally invasive dentistry. Similar to the family doctor model, patients are basically treated by the same general dentist or dental hygienist. Exceptions are emergency appointments and treatments with specialists.
Additional information
Christoph and Sara Hürlimann were named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2010 in the Emerging Entrepreneurs category.
According to the company's own information, sales in 2014 were over 78 million Swiss francs.
Locations
- 2003 Zurich West
- 2004 Winterthur Deutweg
- 2004 St. Gallen
- 2005 Baden
- 2007 Aarau
- 2007 Basel (sold 2011)
- 2008 Bern
- 2008 Lucerne old town
- 2009 Thun
- 2010 Solothurn
- 2010 Winterthur train station
- 2010 Wil SG
- 2011 train
- 2011 Lucerne Pilatusstrasse
- 2011 Zurich Stadelhofen
- 2012 Zurich Oerlikon
- 2012 Zurich-Altstetten
- 2013 Zurich Sihlporte / City
- 2013 Olten
- 2013 Dietikon
- 2013 Uster
- 2013 Buchs SG
- 2013 Volkiland
- 2013 Friborg (dentalcenters.ch)
- 2013 Biel Manor (dentalcenters.ch)
- 2013 Brugg
- 2014 Basel Aeschenplatz
- 2014 Burgdorf
- 2014 Frauenfeld
- 2014 Basel train station
- 2014 Zofingen
- 2015 Liestal (sold 2016)
- 2015 Schaffhausen
- 2015 Bern Marktgasse
- 2017 Biel train station
- 2019 Chur
criticism
Zahnarztzentrum.ch brought an actually entrepreneurial organization into a traditionally self-employed activity for the first time. This earned the founders allegations of the Swiss Dental Association SSO . In particular, the commercially oriented advertising of Zahnarztzentrum.ch was criticized, as was the fact that the majority of the dentists working for the company come from the EU.
In November 2018, the Council of European Dentists (CED) issued a statement expressing concern about the increase in dental chains in Europe. In Spain and France there are chains that ignore patient safety, leave patients without adequate care and in some cases even harm them.
The CED therefore demands a series of regulatory measures by politicians: Among other things, only dentists should be allowed to set up and operate chains of dentists and the majority of the shares and voting rights must belong to dentists. Investors should not influence treatment decisions made by dentists and patients should not be misled by false advertising and prices or misleading financial plans.
Zahnarztzentrum.ch claims that it fulfills all of the requirements of the CED, with the exception of those dentists who are shareholders must practice as dentists in the company.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Medbase plans to take over zahnarztzentrum.ch. In: medbase.ch. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Our recipe for success »zahnarztzentrum.ch. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Timo Dillschneider: Minimally invasive replacement of the anterior tooth. In: zahnarztzentrum.ch Blog. February 28, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2020 (German).
- ^ Comment on the report in the Sunday newspaper of February 1, 2015, accessed on December 28, 2018.
- ↑ Elisabeth Feller: Zahnarztzentrum.ch from Monday with a new location in Brugg Aargauer Zeitung from September 29, 2014, accessed on August 27, 2020.
- ↑ CED RESOLUTION Dental Chains in Europe