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What's my dental practice worth?
Usually 3×–4.25× your adjusted EBITDA if one dentist is buying one office, which for a typical general practice works out to 60%–95% of annual collections. A group buyer or a private-equity platform pays more, 4×–8×, but only at scale.
The calculator below turns that into a range for your practice in about a minute. Then the rest of the page covers what the estimate cannot see, and how to get the number from your own books for free.
The valuation account is free. No card. Read-only access to your books, always.
The numbers that decide it
Before any buyer talks about your patients or your location, they look at the figures below. Have them ready and the estimate is close; connect your books and it is exact.
- Collections for the last twelve months, which is money in, not production scheduled
- Overhead as a share of collections — 62% is typical for a general office, lower for most specialties
- Your own clinical production, because a buyer has to replace you with an associate
- Add-backs: the personal and one-time expenses a buyer will not carry
- Who is buying — one dentist, a partner, or a platform — because each one pays a different multiple
Your estimate, in about a minute
Specialty, locations, collections and overhead. The math runs in your browser; nothing is submitted unless you ask for the result by email.
How we get to a number
Buyers price a practice on EBITDA. Earnings after a market-rate dentist. Times a multiple. The multiple depends on the buyer. And on how many offices. We use 2025 transaction multiples. Same table as the app. Adjusted for specialty.
- Individual buyer — a dentist buying one practice. Most single offices sell this way.
- Partnership — an associate buying in. Or two dentists together.
- DSO / platform — pays for scale. Every multi-location practice. Single offices above about $1.2M.
DPC valuation dataset (2020–2025 dental transactions), 2025 rows.
What the arithmetic looks like
One general office, $1,200,000 of collections, 62% overhead, one dentist buying it. The range is $756,000–$1,071,000; the median is $882,000. The full calculation is on its own page.
| Step | Arithmetic | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Collections, trailing twelve months | Money actually collected, not production | $1,200,000 |
| Operating profit | $1,200,000 × (1 − 62% overhead) | $456,000 |
| Associate allowance | 17% of collections to pay a dentist to do your clinical work | − $204,000 |
| Adjusted EBITDA | 21% of collections | $252,000 |
| Low end | $252,000 × 3× | $756,000 |
| Median | $252,000 × 3.5× | $882,000 |
| High end | $252,000 × 4.25× | $1,071,000 |
| Cross-check | 75% of collections | $900,000 |
What the estimate cannot see
An estimate from six numbers gives you the range. It cannot tell you where in the range your practice lands, because that depends on things only your own data shows: whether your active patients are growing, how much production walks out with you, how your payer mix compares, how many years are left on the lease.
That is what the free account is for. Connect QuickBooks read-only or upload a P&L, and the app runs your actual books through the same table, finds the add-backs, and scores the eight factors a buyer discounts. A buyer could pay the high end if those eight check out; the scorecard tells you which ones do.
- Financial quality: books that tie out, add-backs a buyer will accept, and a margin that holds up
- Patient base: active patients seen in the last 18 months and new-patient flow, not the chart count
- Staff and key-person risk: how much production leaves with you, and whether the team stays
- Payer mix: fee-for-service and strong PPO schedules versus heavy write-offs at the same collections
- Capacity: open operatories, open days and unscheduled treatment a buyer can execute in year one
- Facility and lease: years of term or options left, rent as a share of collections, equipment age
- Market: the demographics and competition around the office, which no amount of work moves
- Transition: how long you will stay, and how much of the referral base follows the practice rather than you
When to find out
Twelve to twenty-four months before you want to sell, not the week an offer arrives. Most of what moves a practice inside the range, such as overhead, a lease renewal, an associate who stays, takes a year to show up in the books a buyer will read. Knowing the number now is what makes that year useful.
What happens after you create the free account
Get the exact number from your own books, free
The account runs on an uploaded P&L or a read-only QuickBooks connection, and it stays free. A practice-management connection through Sikka — production, collections, providers and payers — is something we set up with you when you sell with us.
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Create your free account
Three short screens: you, your practice, your numbers. About two minutes. Nothing is published anywhere, and no card is asked for.
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Connect QuickBooks, or upload a P&L
Connect QuickBooks Online and we read your chart of accounts and Profit & Loss. The connection only ever reads; nothing in your books is changed. No QuickBooks? Upload the Excel, CSV or PDF export your accountant already sends you.
QuickBooks: a read-only connection. - 3
We classify the accounts and find the add-backs
Every account is mapped to a dental category and compared with industry benchmarks. Owner add-backs are called out line by line, and you can review every mapping.
Profit & Loss, benchmarked line by line. - 4
Your valuation and scorecard appear
A value range by buyer type on your adjusted EBITDA, charted month by month, and a Practice Health score with the three levers worth the most to you this year. It updates every time your books do.
Value over time, by buyer type.
Questions people ask next
How much is a dental practice worth, in one sentence?
Adjusted EBITDA times 3×–4.25× for one dentist buying one office in 2025, which for a typical general office is 60%–95% of annual collections.
Is a dental practice worth 70% of collections?
Sometimes, by coincidence. The median for one dentist buying a general office is 75% of collections, but a practice with low overhead is worth more than that and one with high overhead less, because buyers price profit, not revenue.
Can I get a number without talking to anyone?
Yes. The estimate on this page needs no account and submits nothing. The free account needs an email and a P&L or a QuickBooks connection, and shows the valuation without a sales call.
What is actually free?
The instant estimate on this page is free and needs no account. The full valuation account is free too: create it, upload a P&L or connect QuickBooks read-only, and the valuation, the benchmarked P&L and the scorecard are yours, with nothing published and no card asked for. The only fee on this site is the brokerage fee, paid at closing if you choose to sell the practice with us.
Who sees my numbers?
You, and anyone you invite. Nothing is published. The instant estimate runs in your browser and submits nothing unless you ask for it by email; the app keeps your financials behind your login.
Is this a formal appraisal?
No. It is a defensible range from published transaction multiples and your own books, with the reasons behind it. A formal valuation from a credentialed appraiser typically costs $3,000–$8,000 and is the right tool for a court or the IRS. This is the right tool for deciding whether, when and to whom to sell.
Rather ask a person?
Send your question and roughly where you are. You get a reply from one person, with a number and its basis.
Keep reading
Dental practice valuation
How a practice is priced: adjusted EBITDA, the multiple by buyer type, and what buyers discount.
Practice valuation calculation
The arithmetic, step by step, with a worked example you can follow on your own P&L.
Sell a dental practice
Who buys, what each buyer pays, the timeline that protects your price, and a DSO offer vs. a private sale.
2025 dental practice multiples
The transaction table behind every number on this page.