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EXHIBIT 10.17
FIRST AMENDMENT TO
SERVICES AND SUPPORT AGREEMENT
This First Amendment to Services and Support Agreement (the
"First Amendment") effective as of June 1, 1997, is by and between Coast Dental
Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("CDS") and Coast Florida P.A., a
Florida professional services corporation (the "Dental Practice Entity").
R E C I T A L S
WHEREAS, CDS and Dental Practice Entity are parties to that
certain Services and Support Agreement dated as of October 1, 1996 (the
"Services and Support Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, CDS and the Dental Practice Entity are now desirous
of modifying the Services and Support Agreement in accordance with the terms of
the First Amendment.
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by the parties, the
parties agree to modify, supplement and amend the Services and Support
Agreement as follows:
1. Recitals. The statements contained in the Recitals
of facts set forth above are true and correct and are by this reference made a
part of the First Amendment.
2. Internally Developed Dental Centers. A new Section
3.4 is hereby added to the Services and Support Agreement as follows:
"Internally Developed Dental Centers. As an inducement to the
Dental Practice Entity to extend this Services and Support
Agreement to each internally developed Dental Center opened
(beginning in the 2nd Quarter of 1997, and thereafter during
the pendency of this Agreement) by CDS and the Dental Practice
Entity, CDS shall pay to the Dental Practice Entity the sum of
$50,000.00, or such other sum as negotiated in good faith
between the parties, within thirty (30) days of commitment to
the opening of such new internally developed Dental Center.
3. Other Provisions. All of the terms and provisions
contained in the Services and Support Agreement shall remain in full force and
effect unless specifically modified, supplemented or amended by the First
Amendment.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties to the First Amendment have
hereunto set their hands and seals on the day and year first above written.
"DENTAL PRACTICE ENTITY"
COAST FLORIDA P.A.
By:/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxxx Xxxxxx
As Its: President
"CDS"
COAST DENTAL SERVICES, INC.
By:/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
As Its: Chief Financial Officer
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