Run the same EBITDA-and-multiples analysis a sophisticated DSO development team would, on any practice you’re considering. In about ten minutes, with the seller’s P&L. No engagement letter, no listing relationship, no $10,000 outside valuation per deal.
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The Problem
Most dental practice listings are priced by a broker who represents the seller. The valuation is sales literature. As a buyer, you have three real options for getting an independent number:
Option 1
$5,000 to $15,000 per practice. Two to four weeks. Defensible, but uneconomic if you’re evaluating multiple targets or only one will close.
Option 2
Misses owner add-backs entirely. Uses a single multiple regardless of size or specialty. Wrong by hundreds of thousands of dollars in either direction.
Option 3
We tested it. Off by $1.83M on one P&L, $560K on another, in opposite directions, with full confidence in both wrong answers.
None of these gives you a defensible number you can put in front of a partner, a lender, or your own conscience.
Built For
Practice Worth was designed for any party doing independent buy-side analysis on a dental practice. Five audiences come back to it most:
Sub-100-practice operators acquiring 5–20 practices a year. You have a CFO and maybe a part-time M&A consultant, not a full development office. You need a defensible framework that doesn’t cost $10,000 per target.
You’re an associate buying out a retiring owner, or an established dentist acquiring your second location. The seller’s broker won’t run the buyer’s math for you. We will.
Transition CPAs, M&A attorneys, and acquisition consultants. A workbook you can run across multiple client engagements without each one becoming a six-week project.
Three-location groups moving to four or five. Sophisticated enough to want a real number, not large enough to staff corporate development.
Parent-to-child handoffs and partner buy-ins where the relationship matters but the price still has to be defensible to both parties — and to the IRS.
…with a full development office and a dedicated valuation team, you don’t need this tool. You already run the same analysis internally. Practice Worth is for everyone who doesn’t.
The Process
PDF, Excel, or QuickBooks export from the seller’s books. Read line by line, categorized into revenue, cost of goods, operating expense, and owner compensation.
Owner compensation backed out and replaced with a market-rate replacement-doctor cost. Discretionary owner perks added back. Non-recurring items flagged. The way an acquirer looks at it.
Adjusted EBITDA waterfall, valuation range with tier grid, and a methodology appendix you can hand to your CPA or your CFO. Buyer-grade, exportable as PDF.
Practice Worth uses the same EBITDA-and-multiples methodology whether you’re selling a practice or evaluating one to buy. We don’t broker. We don’t match buyers to sellers. We don’t share data between users. The report is the product.
A seller running their valuation gets the same waterfall and tier grid a buyer running it on the same practice would get. That’s the point. Both sides walk into the negotiation with the same defensible framework.
We tested both tools on two real dental P&Ls. ChatGPT was off by up to $1.83 million, with errors going in opposite directions across the two tests.
A buyer who pays based on the wrong direction overpays. A buyer who walks away based on the wrong direction loses the deal. Both kinds of error are damaging in real transactions.
Pricing
Buyer or seller, the report is identical. A single flat fee per practice. No subscriptions. Run as many target practices as you need to evaluate — one report per target.
Buy-side Valuation
Founder pricing · first 50 customers · $200 off the regular $499
Stored & re-printable for 12 months
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Evaluating multiple practices? Each target is its own report. Run the first, then use “Value another practice” from your dashboard to price the next one. If you’re a serial acquirer running ten or more reports a year, talk to us about volume terms.
Begin
Upload the seller’s P&L. Ten minutes from now, you’ll have a defensible buy-side valuation in hand.
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