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What is a dental practice worth? Limited data

Dental practices that sold from 2021 to 2025 went for a median of 2.48x seller's discretionary earnings (SDE). The middle half sold for 1.6x to 3.37x. ^[1]

Last verified October 24, 2026

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What multiple do dental practices sell for?

Lower quartile

1.6x

Median

2.48x

Upper quartile

3.37x

Times seller's discretionary earnings (SDE). Dental practices, BizBuySell, sales 2021–2025; sample size not published.

SDE is the profit one owner takes out of the business: pre-tax profit plus one owner's pay and perks, interest, depreciation and one-time costs. How we calculate it.

Limited data. BizBuySell publishes no quartiles for its parent group, so we can't yet test whether it prices differently. Treat these figures as provisional.

What is the market for dental practices like?

• Benco calls the %-of-collections rule of thumb misleading and gives no percentage. ^[2]
• Single office under $1M SDE: 1.7x–2.9x SDE (headline elsewhere 1.9x–3.6x); specialty practices about 0.3–0.7 turns higher. ^[3]
• 'Average size practices typically fall into a 1.5 – 3.5 multiple range' (earnings basis, no dataset). ^[2]

What do larger dental practices sell for?

Above about $2 million of price, buyers price on EBITDA (earnings after paying a manager) instead of SDE, and private equity buyers enter the market. These ranges are advisor estimates for larger firms, labeled as such. Don't apply them to an owner-run business.

How should you use these numbers?

Multiply your SDE by a multiple in the range to get a rough price for the business, not counting real estate. Where you land in the range depends on how much the business depends on you, how much revenue repeats, growth, customer concentration and the other factors in the calculator. Half of all sales land outside the quartile range, so a real deal can go higher or lower.

Where do these numbers come from?