The Gap Between What You Think and What a Buyer Sees
Most dental practice owners carry a rough sense of what their practice might be worth. That number is almost always different from what a sophisticated buyer would actually pay, and the direction of the error varies. Some owners overestimate significantly. Many, particularly those running lean and efficient practices, underestimate just as significantly.
The gap matters because buyers do not look at gross revenue. They look at normalized earnings, transferability risk, hygiene production, owner dependency, lease terms, payer mix, and a dozen other variables that most owners have never had anyone explain to them in the context of their own specific practice.
And here is the number worth understanding. At typical dental practice multiples of three to five times normalized earnings, every dollar of additional annual profit translates to three to five dollars in practice value. The practices that sell for the highest multiples are not necessarily the largest. They are the ones that present the cleanest financial story and the lowest transferability risk.
Knowing where your practice stands on these variables before you need to know changes everything about how you approach the next two to ten years.
What the Assessment Covers
The Practice Valuation Assessment evaluates your practice across the specific variables buyers and lenders scrutinize when underwriting a dental practice acquisition.
Normalized Earnings
What your practice actually earns after removing owner-specific expenses and non-recurring items, presented the way a buyer and SBA lender would calculate it.
Buyer Value Range
A realistic market value range based on current buyer behavior, market conditions, and how your practice compares to what is actively trading today.
Hygiene and Production Mix
How your production is distributed across providers and service lines and what that signals to buyers about stability, transferability, and risk.
Owner Dependency Analysis
Where your practice sits on the owner dependency spectrum and how buyers would price that risk into their offer.
Risk and Value Gap Summary
The specific variables suppressing your current valuation, ranked by impact, so you know exactly what is most worth addressing.
Improvement Direction
High level guidance on where to focus over the next 12 to 24 months to move your number in the right direction before going to market.
What You Receive
The Practice Valuation Assessment is delivered as a structured written report covering each of the variables above, applied specifically to your practice using your actual financial data. It is not a generic template. Every analysis is built around your numbers, your market, and your specific situation.
The assessment is accompanied by a personal review call where we walk through the findings together, answer your questions, and discuss what the results mean for your specific goals and timeline.
Delivery is within 10 business days of receiving your financial information. Everything is handled confidentially.
The Practice Valuation Assessment is $3,000.
Payment is collected after your initial call and before work begins. No contracts. No ongoing commitment.
This Assessment Is a Good Fit If
You are planning to sell in the next one to five years and want to know exactly where you stand before you have that conversation with anyone.
You have received or expect to receive a DSO inquiry and want an independent perspective on what your practice is worth before you respond.
You are planning a succession to a family member or associate and need an honest, market-based valuation to anchor the conversation.
You simply want to know what your practice is worth today, what is driving the number, and what would move it higher.