What Is My Dental Practice Worth in 2026? - dental practice office scene

A dentist sent me a text last spring that read, in full: “They offered 85% of collections. Is that good?” It is a fair question and an impossible one. Eighty-five percent of collections might be excellent. It might be well below what the same practice would clear in a competitive process. Nothing in that sentence…

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A woman veterinarian in her early fifties in navy scrubs at a tidy practice office desk in the evening, looking…

Key takeaways Published compensation is the floor, not the total: companion-animal associates earned a mean of $146,196 and a median of $133,000, while new-graduate starting compensation was near $130,000. Salary compression has changed the negotiation: the inflation-adjusted gap between new-graduate and established veterinarian compensation narrowed to 19%, down from 93% in 2001, in the latest…

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A woman veterinarian in her mid-forties in casual clothes at a home kitchen table in the evening, looking DOWN at…

Key takeaways State law decides what enters the marital estate. Acquisition timing, marital contributions, agreements, tracing, and goodwill can all change the classified value. A divorce appraisal and a sale estimate answer different questions. One follows a legal assignment; the other tests real buyer demand and negotiated terms. A sale is not automatic. An offset,…

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A woman veterinarian in her early fifties in scrubs at an office desk, looking DOWN at a printed schedule where…

Key takeaways The choice is broader than another job ad because relief coverage, schedule redesign, a better recruiting round, and a possible sale solve different versions of the problem. Relief is a capacity tool and represented 9.1% of private-practice veterinarians in AVMA’s 2024 census, but one vendor’s hourly average is not a universal local quote.…

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Two partner veterinarians (a man in his fifties in scrubs and a woman in her late forties in a lab coat) seated on…

Key takeaways A 50/50 interest is not automatically a discounted minority stake. Appraisers analyze lack of control and lack of marketability separately, then account for voting, veto, blocking, and swing rights. A whole-practice sale answers a different valuation question. It prices 100 percent of the practice, while a partner buyout values the specific interest and…

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