Dental Equipment Depreciation: What It Means, How to Calculate It, and Why It Matters in a Practice Sale capital planning dental equipment appraisal dental equipment depreciation dental equipment fair market value dental practice sale dental practice valuation dso due diligence equipment value section 179 dental May 27, 2026

Walk into almost any dental practice transaction and you'll find the same blind spot. The seller has a number in mind — usually based on collections and EBITDA — and the equipment is essentially an afterthought. The buyer's due diligence team walks through the operatories, notes that the chairs are ...

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What EBITDA Actually Means in a Dental Practice — and Why Your Tax Return Doesn't Show It dental business dental practice earnings dental strategy dso due diligence dso ebitda add-backs dso transactions ebitda dental practice how to calculate ebitda dental how to value a dental practice what is ebitda dentistry May 21, 2026

EBITDA. You'll see it in every DSO letter of intent. You'll hear it in every M&A conversation. And if you ask most practice owners what their EBITDA actually is, you'll get a shrug and a rough number that's almost certainly wrong.

That's not an insult — it's just the reality. EBITDA is a financial ...

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Why DSOs Are Flying Blind on Equipment — And What the Smart Ones Are Doing About It capex planning dso dso acquisition dso due diligence dso strategy dso transaction equipment appraisal equipment fair market value m&a dental practice transition May 17, 2026

If you run procurement for a dental group — or you're the CFO signing off on capital requests — you already know the problem I'm about to describe. You just might not have a name for it yet.

I've spent more than 20 years working inside and alongside dental organizations of every size, from solo pra...

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The Hidden Liability in Every Dental Practice Sale: Equipment No One Has Actually Valued capex planning dental cfo dental equipment dental practice sale dso acquisition dso due diligence dso strategy equipment appraisal equipment fair market value m&a dental practice transition practice valuation May 15, 2026

I've sat across the table from a lot of dental practice transactions — as an advisor, as a consultant, and now as the person who built the software that tries to solve a problem I watched happen over and over again.

Here it is: nobody actually knows what the equipment is worth.

Not the seller. Not...

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