A dental partnership agreement is the document that defines how two or more partners share ownership, profit, decision-making, and risk in a practice. On paper it reads as a legal formality. In practice it is the operating constitution of the business, the set of rules that will govern every major decision, disagreement, and transition for…
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Dental wealth management is the discipline of turning a high-performing practice into lasting personal wealth. For most professionals, wealth is something built outside their work, parked in markets they do not control and timed to a retirement decades away. For an established dental entrepreneur, the largest and most controllable asset is already in hand. It…
A dental practice EBITDA multiple is the number a buyer applies to your earnings to decide what the practice is worth. Take your adjusted EBITDA, multiply it by that figure, and you have the enterprise value of the business. It is the single most important number in any sale, affiliation, or partner buy-in, and most…
Growing a dental practice isn’t simply about adding more patients or opening additional locations. Sustainable growth requires operational excellence, intentional leadership, and systems that allow your practice to expand without creating unnecessary complexity. In this episode of the Tower Leadership Podcast, Lisa Gatsos, a seasoned dental operations expert and Senior Advisor at Tower Leadership, shares…
Dental conferences in 2026 give established dental entrepreneurs something rare, a room full of peers running practices at the same level, gathered in a few concentrated days. The strongest events pair advanced continuing education with the relationships, technology, and strategy conversations that decide where a practice goes next. The year’s calendar spans large national meetings…
A multi-location founder rarely lacks acquisition opportunities. Brokers circulate deal sheets, retiring dentists make introductions, and a practice down the road always seems available at the right price. The discipline lies in separating the practices that add enterprise value from the ones that quietly consume it. Acquisition can be a powerful lever for scale. It…
For a high-growth dental founder, the word DSO carries two very different meanings. One is the option to affiliate with or sell to an outside group. The other is the chance to build your own unified organization that runs several locations under one disciplined structure. Both sit somewhere in the strategy of nearly every multi-location…
At a single location, accounting can run on a capable bookkeeper and a year-end visit to a CPA. At three locations, five, or more, that same setup starts to obscure more than it reveals. Consolidated numbers blur, cash moves in ways no one fully tracks, and the founder makes capital decisions on a picture that…
Dental practice valuation is an executive concern for established dental entrepreneurs, one that matters long before any sale is on the table. A mature practice carries a real, defensible value, and knowing how that value is built sharpens decisions about capital, growth, succession, and long-term wealth. The discipline is in understanding the math behind the…
Every founder eventually asks the same question. How much is a dental practice worth? The number a broker quotes or a quick online multiple suggests rarely holds up under examination. Two practices reporting the same revenue can be worth markedly different amounts, because revenue is only the surface and earnings, structure, and risk sit underneath…
