For Dentist-Owners Ready to Expand BEYOND JUST PRODUCTION

Launch Your Dental Assisting School Without the $30K+ Upfront Fee.

Turn your existing dental practice into a tuition-generating dental assisting school with SMV’s subscription-based launch system.


You do not need to start from scratch. You do not need to build curriculum, student systems, licensure documents, marketing workflows, or school operations on your own. SMV gives dentist-owners a lower-entry path to launch with the all-in-one school platform, curriculum, implementation, support, and clinical training structure already built.

No payment is collected on the intake form. SMV reviews your practice, state, subscription path, and launch timeline first.

Done-For-You State licensure / Dental Board Certification Course Approvals (California Only)

Full done-for-you launch, School Website, Marketing, & Enrollment System

TURNKEY DENTAL ASSISTING SCHOOL SUBSCRIPTION MODEL

Launch Your Dental Assisting School Without the $30K+ Upfront Fee.

Build your own dental assistant pipeline and create a tuition-based revenue stream through SMV’s low-entry subscription model.


SMV provides the curriculum systems, student and instructor platforms, state licensure pathway support, enrollment systems, and phased implementation guidance needed to move from idea to school launch.

Standard: $1,500 activation + $399/month
Premium: $2,100 activation + $499/month
California Premium: $2,500 activation + $1,000 California pathway fee + $599/month

No royalties. No tuition share. No per-student SMV fees. You keep your tuition revenue.

No payment is collected through the intake form. SMV reviews your practice, state, selected pathway, and launch timeline first.

benefits

Why Dentist-Owners Are Launching Schools Now

The dental-assistant shortage isn't temporary. Practices that train their own assistants stop competing for them.

01 · The Shortage

Build Your Own Assistant Pipeline

Stop relying only on an inconsistent labor market. Train local students around the standards your practice actually needs.





02 · The Opportunity

Use Existing Practice Infrastructure

SMV practice-based school models can use existing dental space during non-patient hours, subject to state, facility, and program requirements.

03 · The Economics

Add Tuition Revenue

Create an education-based revenue stream while developing a stronger local workforce pipeline for your practice and community.

SMV Subscription Pathways

Choose the Level of Support

Launch a practice-based dental assisting school without a large traditional upfront fee. Every pathway lets your school keep 100% of student tuition —with no royalties or per-student SMV fees.

Path 01

Standard

Guided School Launch
$1,500 activation one time
$399 / month
$500 annual platform renewal beginning in Year 2
Best for Practices prepared to lead the licensure and launch process using SMV’s curriculum, platform, templates, and written guidance.
Included
  • 12-week hybrid dental assisting curriculum
  • Student online learning platform
  • Instructor teaching resources
  • State licensure templates and checklists
  • School forms, policies, and startup documents
  • Marketing and enrollment templates
  • Client Success coordination
Start Standard Intake
Path 02

Premium

Managed Launch + Clinical Ready™
$2,100 activation one time
$499 / month
$1,000 annual platform and support renewal beginning in Year 2
Best for Practices that want SMV to manage the licensure pathway and provide higher-touch implementation, training, and enrollment support.
Everything in Standard, plus
  • Done-for-you state licensure pathway support
  • Clinical Ready™ validation-based curriculum
  • Clinical Ready™ Instructor Certification
  • Instructor and staff platform access
  • Custom Clinical Ready™ school website
  • Demo Day™ enrollment campaign support
  • Dedicated Client Success Manager
Start Premium Intake
Path 03 · California Only

California Premium

Affiliate Campus Pathway
$2,500 activation + $1,000 CA pathway fee
$599 / month
$1,200 annual platform and compliance renewal beginning in Year 2
Best for Qualified California dental practices seeking the specialized affiliate-campus, Dental Board certificate, and BPPE pathway.
Everything in Premium, plus
  • California affiliate-campus setup
  • 60–90 day exemption launch pathway
  • Radiation Safety and Infection Control pathways
  • Coronal Polishing and Pit & Fissure Sealant pathways
  • California Dental Practice Act pathway
  • California-specific compliance coordination
  • First-year BPPE licensure pathway support
Start California Intake
The SMV Advantage
Keep 100% of tuition
No royalties or tuition share
No per-student SMV fees

Complete the short practice-verification form below. SMV will review your practice, state, selected subscription pathway, and intended launch timeline before sending the appropriate agreement and activation invoice.

No payment is collected through this form.

Practice verification required No royalties No tuition share No per-student fees

Talk With the SMV Subscription Team

Get clear answers about subscription plans, state licensure support, California pathways, launch timelines, platforms, and what happens after intake.

(833) 622-5576


See How Just A Few Students Can Cover the Subscription

Use SMV’s proprietary ROI Calculator to estimate tuition revenue, annual break-even, operating costs, and projected net income based on your tuition and cohort size.

What Happens Next

The Easy Subscription Process

Step 01

Complete the 2-Minute, 6-Question Fit Questionnaire

Step 1. Complete the 2-minute, 6-question fit questionnaire.

Step 02

Book a 15-Minute Discovery

Step 2. If we're a fit, you'll book a 15-minute Discovery Call.

Step 03

Receive the Pre-Discovery
Presentation

Step 3. We send the Pre-Discovery presentation and walk you through the program on the call.

What You Get


Built specifically for dentist-owners who don't want to invent any of it. SMV handles compliance, curriculum, marketing, and ongoing operations — every piece, end-to-end, inside your existing practice.

A Complete Operating System for Running a
Dental-Assisting School

01  State Licensure / Application Support

SMV helps dentists navigate one of the most complex parts of launching a school: state authorization, exemption, and compliance preparation. Support is matched to the subscription pathway you select.

Standard subscribers receive organized state-specific templates, checklists, sample documents, application guidance, and a structured roadmap for completing the licensure process with their own team.

Premium subscribers receive higher-touch, done-for-you implementation support—from compliance intake and document preparation through application readiness, submission coordination, deficiency responses, and approval tracking.


California Premium subscribers receive the Dental Board of California certification course approvals.

05 Branded SMV Learning Management Ssystem Platform

More than a student course delivery online portal. SMV provides a connected platform system that includes cohort-by-cohort online student learning, instructor certification and professional development, a complete instructor teaching platform with hour-by hour lab teaching guides, lesson plans, student comptenecy validation tools, and a staff training portal for admissions, student onboarding, class operations, and launch readiness.



02 Clinical Ready™ Validation-Based Curriculum

Unlike traditional grade-based programs, Clinical Ready™ uses a Pass / Not Yet competency model. Students must demonstrate critical skills to the required standard before advancing. When a student is not yet ready, the skill gap is documented, targeted remediation is assigned, and the student must successfully reattempt the competency.


For dentist-owned schools, this creates greater confidence that students are being prepared for real operatory expectations—not simply completing coursework and receiving a credential.


Clinical Ready™ is available exclusively through SMV.

06 Done-for-You Marketing

SMV builds and coordinates the student-acquisition system for your campus—including campaign strategy, ad creative, conversion-focused landing pages, lead-capture forms, automated follow-up workflows, and lead routing into your cohort enrollment calendar. Your team receives an organized pipeline for moving prospective students from first inquiry to Demo Day™, orientation, application, and enrollment. SMV provides the marketing infrastructure and coordination; each campus is responsible only for funding its chosen advertising budget.

03 Operations Playbook

From cohort scheduling and student onboarding to instructor preparation, weekly labs, chairside drills, validation, remediation, and externship coordination, SMV provides the written playbooks your team needs to operate the program consistently. Each week includes structured teaching plans, activity sequences, materials lists, performance standards, documentation tools, and staff responsibilities—so instructors know what to teach, administrators know what to prepare, and your school does not have to invent its operating system from scratch.

07 Ongoing Client Success

A dedicated Client Success Manager and Intake Manager guide your practice from activation through launch and ongoing school operations. They coordinate onboarding, train your staff on admissions, enrollment, platforms, and school workflows, provide organized access to curriculum documents and operating resources, oversee your school website and platform setup, track launch milestones, and coordinate the SMV teams supporting licensure, marketing, and implementation—so your practice is never left trying to build or operate the school alone.

04 Enrollment + Demo Day™ Systems

A coordinated student-conversion system with lead-response workflows, Demo Day™ event planning, local organic promotion, orientation support, and marketing coordination—designed to move prospects from first inquiry to attendance and enrollment.

08 Per-Campus Owner Portal

See your cohorts, student rosters, licensure or exemption application status, onboarding milestones, outstanding tasks, platform access, and overall launch readiness in one organized owner portal. The dashboard gives you a clear view of what is complete, what comes next, and where your school stands—so critical information is not scattered across emails, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems.

How the Launch Actually Works

From the Day You Sign
Through Your
First Cohort.

SMV runs each phase. You focus on your practice and your students.

Phase 01 · Onboarding

Welcome + Intake

Discovery call, contract, Stripe setup. Rachel reaches out within 24 hours.

Phase 02 · Compliance

State Application Support

Bradley (non-CA) or Ray (CA) drives the licensure packet, regulator response. 

Phase 03 · Buildout

Platform + Curriculum Live

SMV LMS configured, instructor onboarded, marketing funnel wired up.

Phase 04 · First Cohort

Launch + Run

Cohort starts. Students complete curriculum + lab validation.

Your Investment

One Program.
Priced by Your State.

Pricing is based on your state's regulatory environment — not on tier choice. We have one program.
The price changes based on what running a school in your state actually requires of us.

How Pricing Works

California Activation is $7,500 per month and a $ 2, 500 launch fee since it includes 5 Dental Board of California Certification courses + $900/month & includes curriculum, and 3 technology school platforms. and a done-for-you marketing fee. All other states is $7,500 activation fee + $900/month. 

How the Launch Actually Works

Clinical Ready™ launch, full DFY


$7,500

activation

Then $900/mo

Clinical Ready™ validation-based curriculum

SMV Instructor Certification included

Done-for-you state licensure (filing, QA, board follow-up)

Done-for-you launch marketing (brand site, paid media, creative)

Demo Day engine — twice-monthly on-campus enrollment events

AI enrollment engine + 30-second speed-to-lead

All three SMV guarantees apply

California Dental Board certifications (+$2,500 CA pathway fee)

5+ additional programs (Phlebotomy, MA, Front Desk)

Dedicated CSM + higher-touch implementation

Best for: busy owners who want the full system and the fastest path to a full first cohort.

California only · Affiliate-Campus Model

California Practices Follow the Premium Plan


$10,000

$7,500 activation + $2,500 CA pathway fee

+ $900/month Premium

Affiliate-campus setup & onboarding — no standalone BPPE application required

5 CA Dental Board certifications embedded in curriculum: Radiation Safety & Coronal Polishing; Infection Control; Pit & Fissure Sealants; Dental Practice Act

60–90 day launch timeline

All Premium plan features included

California operates under SMV's affiliate-campus model with 5 CA Dental Board certifications embedded in the curriculum. CA launches require Premium (+$2,500 pathway fee) or Concierge / White-Glove (certs included).

Ready to See If SMV Fits Your Practice?

Ready to See If SMV
Fits Your Practice?

Take the 2-minute questionnaire. If you're a fit, we'll auto-book you onto a 15-minute Discovery Call.

No sales pressure, no pricing reveal until we've both agreed there's a real opportunity.

State licensure/application support · Approval not guaranteed

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