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A dental transition rarely begins with every answer. It begins with one question, and the right next step depends on which one. This page takes the questions people actually ask and points each one to the part of Dental Acquisitions that answers it.

Where are you in the transition

Where you are

Five places a transition can be. The question changes with each one.

Nobody needs every answer at once. The stage you're in decides which questions matter now, and the map below puts them where they belong.

Considering

What is my practice worth?
When should I talk to a broker?
What actually moves the value of a dental practice?

Preparing

What should stay confidential, and until when?
Who should be on my Deal Team, and when?
When should legal and tax planning start?

Evaluating

How should I evaluate an asking price?
What does a masked listing show, and what changes after an NDA?
Can a buyer figure out which practice is mine?

Building the Deal Team

How do I bring the professionals I already work with?
What does a lender need from me before financing an acquisition?
How does a transaction find me?

Active transaction

What does a letter of intent actually commit me to?
What does due diligence actually include?
What happens between the LOI and closing?

Wherever you are, start there.

Questions people actually ask

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The sentence is the answer. Where a link follows it, that is the section which explains it in full, or the tool that works it out.

Sellers

What should stay confidential, and until when?: A practice can be marketed without exposing identifying information, with additional details released only as the seller authorizes the process to move forward.
When should I talk to a broker?: Before the practice reaches the market, because the decisions made then shape the transition that follows.
What actually moves the value of a dental practice?: Value reflects the economics, transferability, risk, and durability of the practice, not one headline number or multiple.
What does a letter of intent actually commit me to?: An LOI sets the framework for a potential transaction, but which provisions are binding depends on the language of the document itself.
What happens between the LOI and closing?: The period after LOI is where diligence, financing, legal structure, documentation, and unresolved deal terms have to converge before closing.
What does due diligence actually include?: Due diligence is the buyer's opportunity to test the financial, operational, legal, clinical, and other assumptions behind the proposed transaction.
Who should be on my Deal Team, and when?: The right professionals depend on the transaction, but legal, tax, lending, real estate, and brokerage needs can arise at different points.
Can a buyer figure out which practice is mine?: Dental Acquisitions is designed to limit identifying information until the seller authorizes further disclosure, though no process can promise absolute anonymity.

Buyers

How should I evaluate an asking price?: An asking price is one input, not a conclusion, and should be considered alongside practice-specific economics, risk, terms, and relevant market context.
What does a lender need from me before financing an acquisition?: A lender generally needs enough information about the buyer, the practice, and the proposed transaction to evaluate repayment capacity and structure the financing.
What does a masked listing show, and what changes after an NDA?: A masked listing gives a buyer enough information to evaluate initial interest without identifying the practice, with further disclosure occurring as the seller authorizes it.
How do I bring the professionals I already work with?: Existing professional relationships can stay with the transaction, and the Deal Team can be built around the people the buyer already trusts plus any roles still needed.

Brokers

What does listing on Dental Acquisitions change about my client relationship?: Dental Acquisitions expands where a broker and their listings can be found without replacing the broker's role in the client relationship.
Does Market Data expose my listings or my book of business?: Market Data uses grouped information and is designed to describe the market without identifying an individual listing, broker, or practice.

Professionals

How does a transaction find me?: A participating profile makes your role visible when someone inside a transaction is looking for the kind of work you provide.
My role isn't attorney, CPA, lender, or real estate. Can I participate?: Other professionals may apply when their work regularly supports dental practice transitions, with review based on relevance to the transition.

Everyone

What can Market Data tell me, and what can't it tell me?: Market Data can provide grouped context around listings and asking information, but it isn't closed-sale data and it doesn't value a specific practice.
When should legal and tax planning start?: Legal and tax decisions can affect deal structure well before closing, so they are most useful before key terms become difficult to change.
What is my practice worth?: Market Data shows market context. The valuation tool is separate, and it estimates the value of an individual practice.

The list grows when a real question does.

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