Two people. Both of them at your table.
Eslinger Dental Consultants is deliberately small. Every engagement is run personally by Dave and Cam, start to finish. No hand-offs to juniors, no call centers, no pipeline you are a row in.
We built EDC because we watched too many dentists sell the biggest asset of their lives to the first caller, guided by an advisor whose commission depended on any close rather than the right one.
So we built the firm we would want across the table from a DSO: small enough that you get us, not a junior team. Experienced enough that the buyer’s deal side never faces an unrepresented seller. And paid in a way that means we only win when you do.
Dave & Cam
Dentistry first, deals second, in that order on purpose
Dave Eslinger
Dave has spent 35 years in the dental industry across every seat at the table: the operatory, business development, the DSO corner office, and the founder’s chair. He has sat where you sit and where your buyer sits, which is exactly where EDC does its work: knowing what a practice is worth, what a buyer will actually pay, and how to close the difference.
Cam Eslinger
Cam runs the process: the adjusted EBITDA model, the packaging, the data room, the buyer outreach, and the deal-flow board that keeps everyone honest. Ten years in dental means the operational story of your practice gets told right, in the language buyer deal teams underwrite in.
“Why give the fee to the buyer’s side?”
Because the traditional model taxes the person with the most at stake. A dentist selling a $1.5M practice through a traditional broker hands over $120,000 to $150,000 of their own proceeds, and the seller-paid fees on group-scale deals still run into the hundreds of thousands. We built EDC the other way: nothing upfront and a success fee owed only at close, in our standard DSO transition paid by the acquiring group rather than out of your proceeds. It only works if we consistently deliver deals both sides are proud of. That is the point.
Three commitments, in writing, on the website
The honest number
If the market will not pay what you need, we say so, and we tell you what would change it. An inflated valuation that dies in diligence helps nobody, least of all you.
Nothing owed unless it closes
No retainer, no valuation fee, and no fee of any kind unless a deal you accept closes. In our standard DSO transition there is no exclusivity either, and you can walk away the day before close owing nothing. Our incentives stay aligned with yours because they have to be.
Dentistry stays yours
You keep treating patients while we run the deal. And when the transition happens, it happens on the terms you chose, told to your team in your words, on your schedule.
Talk to the two people who would actually run your deal
No pitch deck, no junior associate, no obligation. One conversation, and you will know more about your options than you did yesterday.