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Exit Planning for Dental Practice Owners
Dental exit planning brings the end in view years before it happens: the value of the practice, the plan for transition, the handling of practice real estate and the retirement that follows. Pagac has guided dentists through long-term succession, in one case building a multi-stage transition to a dentist's son across practice relocation, real estate, tax strategy and retirement restructuring.
Why start exit planning years ahead?
Practice value compounds with preparation, successors need years of clinical and financial runway, real estate must be positioned, and the retirement architecture has to be in place before the last chair is sold. Each element takes time, and the elements interact.
An exit built over years protects both the practice and the family, which is why long timelines are the norm in good planning.
What does a dental exit plan include?
A timeline, a value target, successor development, the real estate plan, the retirement architecture and the transition period that closes the gap between the owner's retirement and the buyer's or successor's readiness. It is revised as facts change.
For family transitions, the plan also carries the personal dimension: the next generation's goals and the owner's wish to leave deliberately.
How do buyers and DSOs change the picture?
DSO readiness means the practice reports cleanly, systems are documented and the funnel is visible, because institutional buyers underwrite with data. A sale to an associate or a family transition may weigh continuity more than systems.
Most owners benefit from keeping both paths open as long as possible, and the analysis that supports one supports the other.
Dental exit planning works backward from the owner's goals, and it starts years early enough to make the ending a choice.
For practice owners
How financially intelligent is your practice?
The Pagac Financial Intelligence Assessment helps dentists see where their practice stands across structure, taxes, profitability, real estate and retirement.