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How Much Do Dental Practices Sell For Understanding How Much Do Dental Practices Sell For requires examining prevailing market multiples, which typically range from 60% to 80% of annual gross collections or 6x to 10x of adjusted EBITDA for established general practices. Because sale prices vary significantly based on active operatory counts, geographic patient demographics, and hygiene production ratios, practice owners…
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The call comes in through the front desk, which is how you know it is not a patient. Someone from business development. Warm, unhurried, complimentary about your hygiene numbers in a way that suggests they have looked at something. They would love to have a conversation. You say you will think about it. Then you…
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Dental Practice EBITDA Add-Backs: What Actually Counts in 2026 Calculating defensible Dental Practice EBITDA requires carefully sorting legitimate operating adjustments such as market-rate doctor compensation normalization, non-recurring professional fees, and owner-specific vehicle or travel expenses from discretionary write-offs that buyers routinely reject. Because private equity groups and Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) scrutinize add-backs during Quality of Earnings (QoE)…
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“I don’t want my name coming off the building.” I have heard that sentence more times than any question about money. It usually arrives late in a conversation, almost apologetically, as though caring about it were unserious. It is not unserious. For a lot of owners it is the actual obstacle, and it is one…
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The most valuable conversation I have is also the one that generates no fee for anybody. An owner calls, says they are thinking about selling in three or four years, and asks what they should be doing now. Then they wait, slightly embarrassed, as though they have called too early. They have called at exactly…
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