Dental Practice Resources
Plain-language guides on buying a practice, due diligence, valuation, EBITDA, owner’s discretionary income, quality of earnings, and the key terms in a dental practice transition.
Steps to Buying a Dental Practice
A step-by-step guide for dentists purchasing a practice in California.
Read the guide → Due Diligence · 6 min readDental Practice Due Diligence: A Six-Step Review
A six-step review of what to examine before you buy a dental practice, and the warning signs to watch for.
Read the guide → Valuation · 4 min readHow Dental Practices Are Valued
What sets the price of your practice, and how buyers, sellers and lenders arrive at it.
Read the guide → Owner’s Discretionary Income · 4 min readOwner's Discretionary Income in a Dental Practice: What It Is and Why Buyers Care
Owner’s discretionary income is the clearest answer to the question every buyer asks: how much will I earn if I buy this practice and work in it?
Read the guide → EBITDA · 5 min readWhat Is EBITDA in a Dental Practice — and Why It Sets Your Practice's Value
How EBITDA is calculated in a dental practice, how buyers adjust it, and what you can do to strengthen it before you sell.
Read the guide → Quality of Earnings · 5 min readQuality of Earnings in a Dental Practice
How a quality of earnings review tests whether a practice's earnings are real, repeatable and worth the price.
Read the guide → Key Terms · 3 min readDental Practice Transitions: Key Terms FAQ
Plain-language answers to the terms dentists need to know in a practice transition.
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