See what practices say about their imaging and scanners.
Practices placing implants with no imaging named, premises with planning approved and no registration, and registered company charges — distinct source observations, not proof of equipment purchases.
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“Every principal in my territory says the same thing: we're looking at one next year. I need the ones who are actually spending this quarter, and I'd rather not find out from the practice that already bought somebody else's.”
The filters, in plain English
Three ticks in Call lists, and they are already a saved list called “Offer implants; no CBCT or scanner named on the website”:
Offers implants — the website says so
CBCT (3D X-ray): not mentioned
Sells full arch — All-on-4, All-on-X, same-day teeth, implant-retained dentures
Registered again with the CQC in the last 12 months — the CQC names the practice it replaced
The count, then the practices
4,338 of the 7,624 UK practice websites we have read offer implants. 1,745 of them name neither a 3D X-ray nor an intraoral scanner anywhere on the site. Too many to call.
Narrow to full arch and it is 1,353 practices selling arch work with no 3D X-ray named. 785 of those name no scanner either. Still a year of driving.
Now add the register. 31 of the 1,353 were registered again with the CQC in the last twelve months, the CQC naming the practice each one replaced: a new provider, or the same provider in a new company. 11 of the 31 name no scanner either.
Thirty-one is a fortnight, not a year. Four of them, exactly as the screen shows them:
| Practice | Town | Registered again | CQC's reason | Full arch | CBCT named | Scanner named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Staines Centre of Dental Excellence | Staines-upon-Thames | 4 Mar 2026 | New provider | Yes | Not on their website | Yes |
| Mouth Matters | Chester | 20 Feb 2026 | New provider | Yes | Not on their website | Yes |
| Huntingdon Dental Care | Huntingdon | 17 Oct 2025 | Legal entity change | Yes | Not on their website | Not on their website |
| Morden Park Dental | Morden | 13 Oct 2025 | New provider | Yes | Not on their website | Yes |
Registered again is the CQC's date, and the reason is the CQC's own. Full arch, the 3D X-ray and the scanner are read from each practice's own website. Read from the database on 23 September 2026.
The evidence, its source, its date
Every fact in that table has a source and a date, and you can see both.
- Full arch means those words are on the practice's own website. We show you the sentence, the page it came from, and the date we read it.
- Registered again is the CQC's own record, dated: the location this registration replaced and the CQC's reason — a new provider (another operator) or a legal entity change (the same operator, a new company). Not our inference: the CQC names it.
- CBCT named: not on their website means we read the site and did not find a 3D X-ray named. It does not mean they haven't got one. That is why the list says not mentioned and not No scanner.
Why a scanner rep cares. 2,080 UK practices do name a 3D X-ray on their site. A practice selling arch cases and naming nothing is doing one of three things: paying somebody else per scan, referring the case out, or owning a machine it never wrote down. The third takes ninety seconds on the phone to rule out.
The register does not say they are buying imaging. It says, to the day, that the practice has a new operator or a new company, and that is when inherited kit and contracts tend to be looked at again.
What changed, and when
Mouth Matters in Chester was registered again with the CQC on 20 February 2026, the CQC naming Mouthmatters as the location it replaced and a new provider as the reason. Full arch is on its website, a single implant is published from £3,290, 244 people have reviewed it at 4.9, and no 3D X-ray is named anywhere on the site.
A registration dated 20 February is a change that has already happened, and the register dates it to the day. It does not say what the new provider will buy — that is on the website or nowhere.
Thirty-one practices sold arch work, named no 3D X-ray and were registered again in the twelve months to 23 September 2026. Eleven of them named no scanner either. The set turns over as the CQC registers the next change.
The arithmetic, shown at three levels
Gross margin on one placed unit — a CBCT, a scanner, a printer, a mill — against the seat:
| If your margin on one unit is | Then one extra placement a quarter is | Against a seat at £39/month |
|---|---|---|
| £4,000 | £16,000 a year | 34× |
| £9,000 | £36,000 a year | 77× |
| £18,000 | £72,000 a year | 154× |
A founding seat is £39 a month, £468 a year.
That is the arithmetic for one extra unit per quarter.
The other half is the diary. The 1,353 is a year of driving. The thirty-one is a fortnight, and it refreshes as the CQC registers the next change.
The gaps, before you find them
What the practice sees about itself. None of the financial half. Charges, filed accounts and warning signs at Companies House are rendered on a subscriber's view of a practice and never on a practice-facing one, in either direction. A rep's screen and an owner's screen of the same practice are different documents, by rule rather than by plan level.
Whether they own a scanner. We read websites. A practice with a five-year-old machine and a website that never mentioned it looks identical to a practice with nothing, and only the practice can settle it.
Which machine they own. In the US we have a named CBCT brand for a few practices — i-CAT 448, Sirona 363, Vatech 214, Carestream 59, Planmeca 45. In the UK we have a brand for none of the 1,995. British practice websites say “3D scanner” and stop.
Why the registration changed. The CQC gives its reason in its own words — new provider, legal entity change, location move — and no more. A sale, a retirement and a restructure look the same on the register.
When their existing contract ends. There is no public source for a lease or a finance agreement on a machine, so we don't have one and we don't pretend to.
Questions
Does "no scanner mentioned" mean they refer out for scans?
No. It means the website we read does not mention one. Some practices have a scanner and don't say; some refer out; some use a nearby scanning centre. Ask before you pitch.
Is "planning approved" an opening date?
No. Permission is granted; the register entry is usually months away, and some premises never open. Every card says "First seen by DentalGraph on {date}. Not an opening date." Where an existing practice was expanding, the typical gap from the first sign to registration was 282 days (90 cases, measured by hand, 27 August 2026).
Do you read websites for scanners outside the UK?
The UK and the United States, both from the practices' own websites. For Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland we hold name, website, Google rating and implant services from the website.