Henry Schein, a $9 billion global dental and medical office supplier, has opened its first integrated training facility in Southlake that will also serve as a showroom for potential clients.
Called the Dallas Discovery Center, the 8,300 square-foot space at 1080 S. Kimball Ave. has eight experience labs, two training rooms, an executive boardroom and an attached warehouse.
Henry Schein has been in business for more than 94 years and has its headquarters in Melville, New York. It is the world’s largest provider of health care solutions to office-based dental and medical practitioners; in 2025, the company made $13.2 billion in sales across 34 countries and territories.
In 2024, Henry Schein opened an 811,000-square-foot distribution center along North Beach Street in Alliance.
Kristen Meszaros, director of training and development, said the Southlake project is vital to understanding the needs of clients and to help sales associates learn in an immersive environment.
“This training facility was literally designed intentionally to bring medical and dental technology together,” Meszaros said.
The eight labs each have high-tech medical equipment and finish options for doctors to pick from. The facilities include fully equipped dental labs, an ambulatory surgery room, an area with 3D printers for dentist offices that want to make their crowns, sterilization machines, and a functioning lab room that has equipment for blood drawing and tools for diagnosing diseases.
A dental equipment room at Henry Schein’s new Dallas Discovery Center in Southlake that the company created to train its sales teams on the products as well as to give potential customers time to see and use the equipment before purchase. Fousia Abdullahi fousia.abdullahi@star-telegram.com
“The great part is our vendor partners, our supplier partners have committed to us to say we want all your reps to be trained on the newest and best and the biggest,” Meszaros told the Star-Telegram. “So if a 2.0 comes out or because technology is changing, if there’s an AI component that comes out with the equipment, they will bring it in and take the old one.”
This was the first company event for Frederick Lowery, who joined Henry Schein as CEO on March 2.
“I think it’s very fitting that this really speaks to who we are as a company and where we’re going as a company and the importance that we play in healthcare,” Lowery said. “For me, healthcare is a really profound thing, it’s profoundly human. I think this center will continue to train and educate healthcare providers and to allow us to receive that healthcare that we deserve.”
The surgery center suite replicates what an actual surgery room would have, including operating table, lights, patient monitoring systems, anesthesia and ultrasound technology. Fousia Abdullahi fousia.abdullahi@star-telegram.com
Steven Kizy, vice president and general manager of Henry Schein’s U.S. Dental Group, said the center came from the need for teams to come together and learn outside of remote training.
Kizy said the space would help the teams better support doctors with patient care.
“If they do better, they could treat patients better,” Kizy said. “If we could speak to the interconnectivity between medical and dental our dentists can open brand-new doors to be able to support their patients and that’s the key of this.”
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Fousia Abdullahi is a Fort Worth Star-Telegram news reporter who covers suburban cities including Southlake, Colleyville, Grapevine and Keller. She enjoys reading and attending local events. Send tips by email or phone.