About
The firm
Founded in 2020, Policys is a strategy advisory firm dedicated exclusively to the dental sector. We advise investors, industry, payers and governments on growth strategy, commercial due diligence, market sizing, pricing and reimbursement, and policy foresight. Our analysis is built on national health databases, proprietary market models and software we code ourselves. We work in France, across Europe and beyond.
What we do
- Growth & corporate strategy
Growth plans, market entry, positioning and portfolio prioritisation for dental companies.
- Commercial due diligence
Buy-side and sell-side: market size and dynamics, competitive position, business plan review. Delivered in partnership with Candesic, the number one consultancy in dentistry worldwide.
- Market insight & data
Sizing, benchmarks and proprietary analyses built on national and international health databases.
- Pricing, reimbursement & policy
Fee schedules, national agreements, care baskets: anticipating and quantifying regulatory change.
Dr Marco Mazevet
DDS, PhD, MBA · Founder and Managing Partner
Policys is led by its founder, Dr Marco Mazevet: former CEO of France’s largest dental union, where he supervised the negotiation of two national dental agreements covering 65 million insured; Chief Clinical Officer of a multi-site dental group; PhD from King’s College London and 25 scientific publications; former Vice-Chair of the FDI World Dental Federation’s Public Health Committee; six governments supported on oral-health system reform.
The founder
Dr Marco Mazevet founded Policys in 2020. Dentist by training, with a PhD from King’s College London and an MBA from INSEAD, Marco has worked on dentistry from the chair, the research bench, the payer’s table and the deal table. He is also Chief Clinical Officer of a multi-site dental group.
As CEO of France’s largest dental union, Marco supervised the negotiation of two national dental agreements with public and private payers covering 65 million insured, and directed a €6M practice-based prevention study funded by the Article 51 innovation fund, designing its caries-risk algorithm. One result can be checked in the fee schedule: fluoride varnish reimbursement extended from ages 6 to 9 to ages 1 to 26.
The research side is not decorative: 25 peer-reviewed papers, including the most-cited British Dental Journal paper of its year and first authorship of the Dental Policy Lab report on paying for health in dentistry. A doctoral thesis on dental training made the national press and prompted a question in the European Parliament. 150+ international lectures, seven theses supervised in two countries, 1,000+ healthcare professionals trained on language models.
Vice-Chair of the FDI World Dental Federation’s Public Health Committee, on which he served from 2021 to 2024, including the chair of its meeting of 50+ Chief Dental Officers in Istanbul. Six governments supported on oral-health system reform.
And the code is real: co-founder of a health-tech startup, author of a COVID triage app for the profession, and the hands behind the databases, survey engines and models that Policys delivers.
Distinctions
- Pierre Fauchard Academy International Award · Pierre Fauchard Academy
- Europe’s candidate · Global Oral Health Leadership Institute
- Executive Committee member · CariesCare International
- Vice-Chair, Public Health Committee · FDI World Dental Federation
- Former President · European Dental Students’ Association, 100,000 students in 30 countries
- Most-cited paper of its year · British Dental Journal, CariesCare practice guide