What Is Your Dental Practice Worth?

Most online calculators multiply your collections by a rule of thumb. Buyers don’t price practices that way. Get a real answer from a firm whose founder built and ran the M&A team at one of the country’s largest DSOs.

Get Your Free Valuation

Your name

Practice name

Practice type

Number of locations

Number of operatories (across all locations)

Estimated annual collections

City

State

Where are you in your thinking?

Phone (optional — only if you prefer a call)

Takes two minutes. Your information is never shared or sold.

No algorithm. A real review.

Instant valuation calculators exist because they’re cheap to run. They also produce numbers no buyer will ever pay, high or low, because buyers don’t price your collections. They price your EBITDA, your payer mix, your growth, your staff, your lease, and a dozen other things a form can’t see. Ascend’s valuation experience was built on the buy side: four years inside one of the country’s largest DSOs, where our founder built and ran the M&A team. When you request a valuation, our founder reviews what you send, asks for what’s missing, and walks you through where your practice sits and what’s driving the number. You leave the call knowing more about your practice, whether you ever sell it or not.

Looking for a Dental Practice Valuation Calculator? Here Is What One Cannot See.

	An online calculator	Ascend’s valuation
What it reads	Your collections and a rule of thumb	Your trailing twelve months P&L, general ledger, and production and collections by provider
Your pay	Left as is	Taken out, with a market-rate replacement for your production charged against earnings, as groups do
Rent	Ignored	Reset to market when you own the building
Add-backs	Cannot see them	Found, documented and talked through with you before any number is set
What you get back	One number	A valuation report: a range with the adjusted EBITDA build behind it, and what is driving it
Who is behind it	A formula	Our founder, reviewing it personally

How it works

This is better than a calculator for one reason: it is the review a buyer’s team will run on your practice, done before any buyer does.

1 Request your valuation

The form takes two minutes. We confirm receipt right away.

2 A short intro call

Within one business day Austin reaches out to set a quick call, about 15 minutes by Zoom or phone, where he learns the practice and what you want to accomplish and walks you through the process. You leave with the short list of reports. If you would rather skip the call, send the reports straight away.

3 Send the reports, answer questions

The trailing twelve months P&L through the last closed month, the general ledger for the same period, and production and collections by provider; your bookkeeper or CPA can pull them in a few minutes. Austin works through them the way a buyer’s team will and asks what it would ask: owner pay, rent, personal and one-time expenses. The add-backs are talked through with you before any number is set.

4 Your valuation and findings

Your valuation report, a range with the adjusted EBITDA build behind it, walked through on a 30-minute call: what is driving the number, what is holding it back, and what would move it.

Austin Hunter

Founder, Ascend Strategic Partners

9 years in dental M&A, built on the buy side

50+ practice transactions inside one of the nation's largest DSOs

Valuations built the way buyers actually build them

You don't need to be ready to sell

Most owners who fill out this form aren’t selling this year. They’re one to three years out and want a real number before making decisions: about hiring an associate, adding an operatory, or picking up the phone the next time a DSO calls. That’s the right way to use it. The owners who get the strongest outcomes are the ones who knew their number early.

FAQ

How much is my dental practice worth?

What a buyer will pay for your earnings rebuilt its way, priced by that group’s model and balance sheet. Two groups price the same practice differently in the same month, which is why one offer never tells you what’s market and why no calculator can. Request the review; within one business day you will hear from our founder directly.

Is this really free?

Yes. A valuation conversation is how we earn the right to work with sellers later. Most people who request one aren’t ready to sell, and that’s fine.

Will I get a sales pitch?

You’ll get a review and a conversation. When you want representation, Ascend prepares the practice and runs a competitive process, with more than one buyer competing for your practice, then carries the deal to closing. Send us any unsolicited offer before you answer it.

Is this confidential?

Completely. Your staff, your patients, and buyers will not learn you asked. Your information is never shared or sold.

What do you need from me?

The form to start. Then a few standard reports your practice software and accountant already produce; we’ll tell you exactly what to send and where to find it.

How is this different from a formal appraisal?

A formal appraisal is a written document for banks, courts, or partnership buy-ins. This is a market-based review of what buyers would actually pay, the number that matters when you’re weighing an exit.

What if I'm five years from selling?

Even better. Almost everything that increases a practice’s value takes 12 to 36 months to show up in the financials. Early is when the number is still movable.

Find out what you've built

One form, two minutes, a real answer.