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See your practice through a buyer's eyes.

Enter a few key details to understand your practice's financial strength, price fit, transition readiness and growth potential — the same areas a serious buyer will examine.

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Practice snapshot

Start with the basic facts that show practice size, patient demand and room to expand.

Step 1
Enter where the practice is located. City must contain at least 2 characters. This helps us more accurately evaluate local patient demand and growth opportunity.
Use the active-patient count from your practice software or the definition you normally use. The page only flags this when the patient count and reported collections are unusually difficult to reconcile.
Enter the total number of new patients seen during the most recent 12 months. This helps show whether the current patient base is being replenished and whether the patient counts are internally consistent.
Use typical clinical days when patients are seen. Fewer current days can create schedule expansion potential when patient demand is strong.
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Example: enter 70% if the selling dentist produces about 70% of all doctor production. A longer seller transition entered in Step 4 meaningfully reduces this risk.
Count every operatory that is already equipped for dentist or hygiene care, even if it is not used every day.
Count only extra rooms that could reasonably become dentist or hygiene operatories without expanding the building.
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Financial snapshot

Use the most recent 12 months so the economics are compared on the same basis.

Complete the required fields in the previous step first.
Step 2
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Use money actually collected by the practice, not billed production.
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Use a realistic amount to compensate the doctor work being performed. Do not use owner distributions that are unrelated to clinical work.
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Include staff, supplies, lab, rent, software, marketing and other operating costs. Do not include the doctor pay above or a future acquisition loan.
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Enter the total collections for the full 12 months immediately before the current 12-month total above. If you compare calendar years, this is simply the prior year's total collections — for example, 2025 collections compared with 2026 collections.
Optional: add the previous year's total to see whether collections are growing, stable or declining.
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This is a percentage of outstanding A/R, not annual collections. Example: if total A/R is $100,000 and $20,000 is more than 90 days old, enter 20%.
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Use the total outstanding A/R from the same aging report. This lets the assessment distinguish a small old balance from a large collection problem.
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Example: if the largest plan paid $1.5 million of $5 million in total collections, enter 30%. This measures payer concentration, not practice size.
How this page calculates operating profit: collections minus doctor clinical pay minus all other practice expenses. Acquisition loan payments are handled separately.
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Price and financing

Add the practice price and known near-term capital needs. Loan modeling remains optional.

Complete the required fields in the previous step first.
Step 3
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Enter the full practice price in dollars. Example: enter 750000 for $750,000. Real estate is entered separately below.
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Examples: chairs, CBCT/panoramic equipment, HVAC, roof, build-out or other known near-term capital needs. Enter 0 if none are expected. The score compares this amount with annual collections and current operating profit, so unusually large capital needs will materially reduce the profile.
Optional: add real estate details
Complete this only if the property may be purchased with the practice. Real estate is evaluated separately from the dental practice, then its transaction impact is reflected in the overall profile.
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Enter the property price only. Do not combine it with the practice price above.
sq ft
Use the approximate area included in the property sale.
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If known, this lets the page compare the property asking price with an estimated market value. Leave blank if you do not know.
Add the property price and square footage to see price per square foot and transaction impact.
Skipping this does not lower the practice score. If real estate is entered and included in the loan estimate, its price is added to the modeled acquisition debt.
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Transition and opportunity

Describe the likely transition and any growth opportunities you already know exist.

Complete the required fields in the previous step first.
Step 4
Associate dentist already in place?
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Additional review questions

Optional. These questions can make the profile more complete, but they do not block your result.

Complete the required fields in the previous step first.
Step 5
Choose the description that best fits. If you do not know, leave it as Unknown. Unknown answers are shown as incomplete rather than being scored as a problem.

Selecting 5 will significantly lower the overall profile.

Selecting 5 will significantly lower the overall profile.

Operating profit before acquisition loan payments--Enter core economics
Debt coverage--1.30x means the practice produces $1.30 of operating profit for each $1.00 of annual acquisition loan payments.
Cash flow after acquisition loan payments--Loan not modeled
Debt coverage if collections fall 10%--Below 1.0x means operating profit would no longer fully cover the modeled annual loan payments.
Asking price compared with annual collections--Example: 0.70x means a $700,000 price on $1,000,000 of annual collections. Real estate is excluded.
Asking price compared with operating profit--Example: 4.0x means the asking price equals four years of the current operating profit before acquisition loan payments.

What stands out positively

Complete the assessment to generate buyer-facing strengths.

What deserves a closer look

Unknown items and material risks will appear here.
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If you choose to explore a partnership, these are the records that help Laurel Bay understand the practice more clearly and discuss potential next steps.

3 years of tax returns and year-to-date P&L
Last 12 months of collections and production by provider
A/R aging, credits, write-offs and collection reports
Active-patient / recall and new-patient reports
Staff roster, compensation and tenure
Payer mix and top-plan concentration
Procedure mix and referral-out reports
Lease, real-estate terms and near-term capital needs