Seller guide
What your practice is actually worth in 2026.
A plain-English walk-through of multiples, collections percentages, and the ten line items that swing a valuation by 30%.
Resources
Guides, reports, and tools for practice transitions.
Everything we've learned from closing hundreds of dental deals — written for sellers, brokers, buyers, and DSOs.
Featured · 2026 Report
Annual report
The 2026 State of Dental Practice Transitions.
642 closed deals. $1.6B in listed volume. Median multiples by specialty and region, time-to-close trends, and the DSO share of the buyer market — all from the Dental Deals network.
Guides & articles
Read up before you list, buy, or broker.
Seller guide
The anonymous listing playbook.
How to stay masked on the marketplace, what buyers actually see pre-NDA, and when to reveal your identity.
Broker
Running a 20-deal pipeline without email.
How three principal brokers retired their inbox and moved every client conversation into a branded workspace.
Buyer guide
The first 30 days of diligence, step by step.
Production reports, AR aging, lease terms, payer mix — what to ask for, in what order, and what you can skip.
DSO
Building a scaled acquisition pipeline.
How Summit Dental Partners closed 47 practices in 18 months using saved searches, standardized LOIs, and a platform of record.
Report
Real estate in dental deals: buy, lease, or separate?
Case studies on how real estate structure affects valuation, tax, and buyer pool — with three worked examples.
Seller guide
Associate-to-owner: buying your first practice.
SBA 7(a) timing, the letter of intent you'll actually sign, and how to negotiate a post-close transition period.
Legal
Non-compete clauses: enforceable, negotiable, or neither?
State-by-state breakdown of what sellers are agreeing to and how buyers should draft them.
Broker
Co-broker splits done right.
How to structure, track, and settle co-broker arrangements without friction — with template language and tracking templates.
Tools & templates
Free tools to get you unstuck.
Valuation calculator
Plug in your collections, overhead, and real estate structure. See a range anchored in regional comps in under a minute.
Open calculator →LOI template pack
Six attorney-reviewed LOI templates — asset purchase, stock, real estate bundled, rollover equity — in DOCX and PDF.
Download templates →Diligence checklist
The 38-item list we give every seller. Financials, real estate, legal, ops, staff — with owners, due dates, and dependencies.
Open checklist →SBA 7(a) prep kit
Everything a lender will ask a first-time buyer for, organized in the order underwriters review it.
Open prep kit →Transitions glossary
GP multiple, EBITDA normalization, rollover equity, CAM — every term a dentist will hear during a transition, in English.
Open glossary →NDA & engagement letters
Mutual NDA, buyer rep agreement, broker engagement letter, and seller listing agreement — all editable.
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