EXHIBIT 23.5
 
The Board of Directors
Gentle Dental Service Corporation:
 
  We consent to the use of our report included herein and to the reference to
our firm under the heading "Experts" in the Registration Statement on Form SB-
2 and the related Prospectus of Gentle Dental Service Corporation for the
registration of 4,125,000 shares of common stock. Our report dated November
14, 1997, contains an explanatory paragraph that states that the supplemental
consolidated financial statements give retroactive effect to the merger of
Gentle Dental Service Corporation and GMS Dental Group, Inc. on November 4,
1997, which has been accounted for as a pooling of interests.
 
                                          KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
 
Orange County, California
January 8, 1998