While investors in India are not aware of this business, globally B2B services to dentistry is a big business. The main segments of this market are: clinic capex; consumables; education, training and exhibitions. The size of this market is around ~USD50B at global level.
The size of the US market is around a third of this, around USD16B. The size of the retail market of dentistry in the US is USD160B. This makes B2B distribution around 10% of the retail market.
In India, we find B2B distribution is around 15-20% of dental revenues (less for more high earning dentists). This makes the size of the dental distribution market between Rs 20-25B.
The US market has concentrated; the two top companies have around 30% market share. This suggests scope for emergence of a scale player in the fragmented Indian market.