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E35 - Dental Practice Valuation Secrets: A Broker’s Tell All - What Buyers Are Actually Paying For

Published: January 8, 2026

Duration: 44:35

What’s a Dental Practice Really Worth? A 20-year broker breaks down why 95% of sellers reject DSOs and the real formula buyers should use.
Marie Chatterley has been appraising dental practices since before most of her clients were born, her firm, CTC Associates, has been doing this work since 1988. Mike sits down with her to take apart how practice valuation actually works, starting with the three questions every buyer asks (collections, operatories, new patients) and why all three can be misleading. They get into why a 3-chair practice can collect $1.8M, why 50 new patients a month at a 30-y...