A competitive process, run for you.
Alone, you negotiate against a professional acquisition team that buys practices every week. With EDC, qualified buyers bid for your practice while you keep doing dentistry. Here is the whole process, step by step, nothing hidden.
From first call to final wire
The line on the left fills as you read, the same way the deal-flow bar fills when your deal is live.
Confidential valuation
We analyze your financials, payor mix, and doctor economics, then tell you what the market will actually pay and what would make it pay more. If the honest answer is not yet, you get that answer and a plan, and we refresh the number every year until you are ready.
Packaging the practice
Adjusted EBITDA bridge, quality of earnings support, and a CIM built the way DSO deal teams actually read them. Your data room goes live in the EDC Deal Room, indexed to the individual document before a single buyer sees anything.
The right buyers, quietly
A blind teaser goes to qualified DSO and PE buyers matched to your specialty, geography, and goals. Nobody learns who you are until they sign the NDA, and your team never knows until you decide.
Buyers compete, you compare
Indications of interest arrive on our timeline, not the buyer's. We normalize every offer side by side: cash at close, rollover equity, earnout terms, real estate, and what your day two actually looks like.
The deal room does the heavy lifting
Diligence is where unrepresented deals die. Every request is tracked, every document is one search away, and the ball-in-court board shows exactly who owes what, so nobody stalls silently.
Final wire, and a clean handoff
Definitive agreements, funds flow, and the integration handoff. Our success fee is owed only now, at close, in the standard DSO transition paid by the acquiring group. Nothing has been owed by you along the way, and that has been true since the first phone call.
“If the buyer pays your fee, whose side are you really on?”
The fairest question in this business, so here is the plain answer. We are paid only when a deal you accept actually closes. You choose the buyer, you set the floor, and you can turn down any offer, so the only way we ever get paid is by finding terms good enough that you say yes. No retainer, no valuation fee, and in our standard DSO transition no exclusivity and nothing owed if you decline every offer. When a deal calls for us to work for you alone, we do that too, under a written seller representation agreement, so in every deal you know exactly who is paying us before anything is signed. The incentive is a deal both sides are proud of, because our next deal depends on this one closing well.
You will always know whose court the ball is in
Every live engagement gets a deal-flow bar and a ball-in-court board. When something is waiting on you, the buyer, or us, everyone can see it and nobody stalls silently.
Asked by almost every dentist we talk to
What does this cost me? +
Nothing to start, and nothing at all unless a deal you accept closes. In our standard DSO transition, the acquiring group pays our success fee at close. When a deal calls for a formal sell-side engagement instead, the fee comes out of the closing proceeds and is agreed in writing before anything starts. Either way: no retainer, no valuation fee, and if no deal closes, nobody pays us anything.
Am I committing to selling by talking to you? +
No. Most first conversations are with dentists who are years away from selling. You get a real number and an honest read on timing, and if the answer is “not yet,” we tell you what would change that and refresh the valuation every year until you are ready.
Will my team or my patients find out? +
Not from us, and not from the process. Buyers see a blind teaser first and sign an NDA before they learn your name. Your team never knows until you decide to tell them.
I already have an offer in hand. Is it too late? +
An unsolicited offer is usually the buyer’s opening number, not their best one. It is exactly the right moment to get a second opinion. Start with the free offer second read, then send it over. We will tell you honestly whether the offer is strong, and if it is, we will say so.
Do you only work with large groups? +
No. We work with single offices and multi-location groups. The process scales to the practice, and the promise is the same either way: nothing upfront, and no fee unless your deal closes.
Do I have to sign an exclusivity agreement? +
Not in our standard DSO transition: no exclusivity, no lock-up period, and nothing owed if you change your mind. A formal seller representation, where we work for you alone, usually includes a defined exclusive period, and we walk through every term in writing before you sign.
See your number first. Decide everything else later.
The instant estimate is free, anonymous, and takes about a minute. The full valuation is also free, and it comes with a conversation.