Sell your practice to a doctor, on your timeline
Want to sell your dental practice without a DSO? We help you plan a transition that pays you fairly, protects your patients and team, and keeps the practice in clinical hands.
How a doctor-to-doctor transition works
Most owners start planning their exit too late, with one or two buyers and little leverage.
A written plan for every step of your exit, from what the practice is worth today to the day you hand over the keys.
You decide when, to whom, and on what terms. Accelerate is a minority partner and is not built to be sold, so there is no future corporate buyer behind the deal.
PE-backed DSO offers look large, but holdbacks, rollover equity, and earnouts shrink the cash you actually receive. For a representative practice ($1.5M revenue, 6× EBITDA), day-one cash comes to about $630K before tax. The same practice sold to another doctor at 75% of revenue brings about $1,125K in cash at close. These figures are illustrative; individual deals vary.
A simple three-stage path, so nothing is decided at the last minute.
Sell to another doctor. Accelerate helps you find and develop a successor, often an associate already in your practice, values the practice using industry-standard revenue and profit multiples, and arranges bank financing so the buyer can pay you. The practice stays doctor-owned. See what a DSO offer really pays compared with a doctor-to-doctor sale.
Ideally five or more years out. That leaves time to raise the practice’s value, develop a successor, and reduce your clinical days in phases.
Accelerate values the practice using industry-standard revenue and profit multiples and explains the result in plain language. An exit readiness review also shows what would raise the value before you sell.
The practice stays under a doctor owner, so patients keep a dentist-led practice and your team keeps clinical leadership. We plan how and when to tell your staff and patients.
Yes. A phased transition plan sets out a written timeline for reducing your clinical days while you hand off leadership and equity.
Book a call and we will review the deal math with you: holdbacks, rollover equity, earnouts, and how much cash you would actually receive on day one. You can also see what a DSO offer really pays for a representative practice.