Posts by Author: Melani Seymour

Open the schedule for three weeks out. Look at the hygiene column. You already know what you are going to see, which is why most owners stop looking. Tuesday has four patients where there should be nine. Thursday is worse. And somewhere in the software there is a recall list that has quietly grown past…

Asset Sale vs Stock Sale for a Dental Practice: A 2026 Owner Guide  Choosing between an Asset Sale vs Stock Sale for a Dental Practice fundamentally dictates your after-tax net proceeds, liability exposure, and how corporate buyers structure their acquisition. Because nearly all private equity-backed Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) and individual buyers strongly prefer asset purchases to…

The email lands at 6:40 on a Thursday morning. Subject line: “Partnership conversation.” You have four locations, eleven operatories between them, and a schedule that has not had a real gap in it since March. You are not looking to sell. You read it anyway. Everybody does. By the weekend you have typed the name…

You own four offices. The letter that arrived this week is addressed to you as a group, not as a dentist. Most owners skim past that. It is the whole story. Some buyers in dentistry are built to absorb one office at a time. A smaller number can take an entire group in one piece,…

The question almost always arrives sideways. We will be 40 minutes into a conversation about what a practice is worth, and the owner stops. Then some version of this: I’m not trying to retire. I like Tuesdays. I just don’t want to be the person who calls the payroll company anymore. That is not a…