About Dental Exit Group

Disclosure

DentalExitGroup.com is operated by a non-licensed entity and is an affiliate of Wraith Brokerage, LLC (a Delaware LLC). We specialize in dental practice brokerage services for general dentistry, specialty practices, and dental groups.

What this site covers

The questions in a dental sale are specific: how much of the dentistry you produce yourself and whether your associates stay, what happens to your PPO participation and fee schedules when the owner changes, who keeps the patient charts after closing, and whether your buyer may own a dental practice at all under your state's law. The guides cover selling to a DSO, selling to another dentist and selling a specialty practice.

What happens when you request a valuation?

1. 1

   Describe your practice

   Revenue range, state, number of dentists, number of locations and how to reach you, on one short form that takes about two minutes.

2. 2

   Collections, production and payer mix

   Gather five years of financial statements and tax returns, your collections and production, and your fee-for-service to managed care ratio. The ADA valuation document checklist lists the rest.

3. 3

   Your valuation

   A value range from your seller's discretionary earnings (SDE), which includes your pay as the owner-dentist, or from EBITDA if the practice runs without your chair time. The range is set against the closest published multiples, where any exist, with what would move it up or down. It is not an appraisal, and not an offer from a dentist or a DSO to buy your practice.

4. 4

   Your decision

   You are under no obligation to sell. Whether you sell to an associate, another dentist or a DSO, and when, is your decision.

Is a valuation request confidential?

Details about your practice are not shared with prospective buyers, whether another dentist or a DSO, without your permission. Requesting a valuation does not list your practice, and the form asks for no patient information; the privacy policy explains what it does collect and where it goes.

A hygienist who hears of a sale and leaves can be hard to replace. In April 2026 the ADA Health Policy Institute reported that only 60% of dentists had enough hygienists on staff, and that 91% of dentists who were recruiting or had recently recruited one called it very or extremely challenging.

If patient charts come up at all, it is in a buyer's due diligence; see patient records and HIPAA in the due diligence checklist.

What this site is not

• It does not list dental practices for sale.
• The “group” in Dental Exit Group does not mean a group practice or a DSO.
• The dental practice value estimator is not an appraisal and not an offer. It multiplies your SDE by the SDE multiples paid for the middle half of dental practices sold on BizBuySell from 2021 to 2025. How the dental practice estimator works covers the EBITDA path, specialty practices and what does not move the number.

Nothing on this site, including the guides, the FAQ and the estimator, is legal or tax advice, and many of the rules in a dental practice sale are set state by state. Confirm anything you plan to rely on with healthcare counsel and a CPA in your state. The guide to who can own a dental practice and the dental practice due diligence checklist cover these rules with sources.

How to get in touch

For questions about this site or a dental practice valuation request, email info@dentalexitgroup.com. Dentists and dental groups looking to buy a practice can join the buyer list.

Sources

All sources accessed October 14, 2026.

1. American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Pediatric Dentistry Today (Litch and Associates Law Log), 2026
2. Delta Dental, Notice of Sale of Practice, October 2024
3. Henry Schein Dental Practice Transitions, Determining Amount of Delta Premier vs Delta PPO Patients (worksheet)
4. The Florida Legislature, Florida Statutes 466.0285, Proprietorship by nondentists, 2026
5. American Dental Association, Business Services Agreements with DSOs: What a Dentist Should Know, January 21, 2021
6. Texas Secretary of State, Texas Register, April 3, 2026, Proposed Rules, Title 22: 22 TAC §108.8(f)
7. American Dental Association, Valuation Document Checklist (PDF)
8. FOCUS Investment Banking, Maximizing Your Dental Practice Sale: A 2025–2026 Market Guide (whitepaper), March 2026
9. BizBuySell, Dental Practice Business Valuation Multiples & Financial Benchmarks
10. ADA News, Is it time to sell your dental practice? December 4, 2024
11. American Dental Association, Health Policy Institute (HPI Perspectives), April 2026