Transferring ownership of a dental practice is often the most significant financial transaction to take place during a dentist’s professional career. Proper planning and understanding of the strategies and values that exist in the ever changing marketplace is imperative to maximize success while minimizing risk for what is typically a dentist’s largest single investment asset—their practice.

Topics to be discussed:Topics Include:

• DSO/Corporate buyers fact and fiction

• Demographic trends in the buying and selling population

• Income, market and asset valuation theories

• Transition options 

Learning objectives:

Understand up to date valuation methods and how to increase the value of a practice

What buyers want, both individual and “DSOs”

Top 10 mistakes to avoid in a practice sale

ISDS is an approved continuing education (CE) sponsor in the State of Illinois. Courses offered by ISDS, including this one, are approved for CE credit under the Illinois Dental Practice Act for license renewals, including both dentists and dental hygienists.