A dentist’s understanding of practice. A buyer’s perspective on the decision.
Practice Directions is led by Corey Young, DDS, MBA, CVA, ABI—a former practicing dentist, practice owner, dental practice broker, and Certified Valuation Analyst.
Corey brings together firsthand experience in dentistry and practice ownership with disciplined financial analysis. His focus is helping dentists understand not just what a practice looks like on paper, but what owning it could mean for their clinical work, financial obligations, team, and professional future.
Practice Directions serves a broader mission: helping private dental practice thrive.
Experience on both sides of practice ownership.
Corey’s background includes:
- 20 years as a practicing dentist and practice owner.
- More than 10 years in dental practice brokerage and transitions.
- A Master of Business Administration.
- The Certified Valuation Analyst designation.
- The Accredited Business Intermediary designation.
That experience brings together the clinical, operational, financial, and transaction perspectives involved in practice ownership.
A financial statement matters—but so does understanding how the practice operates, how dependent it is on the seller, what the team contributes, and what may change when a new owner steps in.
Why Practice Directions exists
Buying a dental practice is complicated. Buyers must evaluate a business, arrange financing, understand the legal terms, and prepare to take responsibility for patients, staff, and operations.
The professionals involved each have important roles. The listing broker generally works for the seller. Attorneys handle legal matters. CPAs advise on accounting and tax. Lenders evaluate financing.
Buyers can still need someone helping them connect those pieces from their side of the transaction.
Practice Directions was built to provide that guidance: experienced judgment, financial analysis, organized due diligence, and practical coordination centered on the buyer’s decision.
The purpose is not simply to complete a purchase. It is to help a dentist make an informed decision about ownership—including deciding not to proceed when the practice or terms do not make sense.
Supporting private practice from more than one direction.
Helping buyers become informed owners
Practice Directions provides practice analysis and buyer representation for dentists throughout the United States.
Buyers can begin with Deep Dive Analysis of up to three target practices or choose Full Buyer Representation for broader support through offer strategy, due diligence, closing preparation, and early transition planning.
Helping owners sell independently
Not every owner wants a full brokerage engagement. Some are comfortable leading their own sale but want better tools, preparation, and marketing support.
Practice Directions’ assisted for sale by owner (FSBO) listing service combines broker-level listing tools, marketing and distribution support, document-organization guidance, and a PracticEstimate educational price-range report at no additional charge.
Owners remain the primary point of contact and decision-maker in their sale. The listing service does not, by itself, create a seller representation relationship.
Helping practices and associates find the right fit
Private practice also depends on strong associate relationships.
Practice Directions helps practices present associate positions clearly, including conventional roles and genuine ownership-track opportunities. Dentists can explore the clinical role, practice environment, compensation structure, and longer-term possibilities described in each listing.
Ownership is not implied where it is not part of the offering.
How Corey approaches the work
Start with the decision—not the transaction.
The right question is not simply whether a deal can close. It is whether the opportunity makes sense for the buyer and what needs to be understood before committing.
Connect the numbers to the practice.
Cash flow, staffing, clinical production, overhead, and financing are not separate stories. Together, they help explain what ownership may look like.
Be clear about what is known.
Seller-provided information, assumptions, and independently established facts are not interchangeable. Missing information and unresolved questions should be visible—not buried in a polished report.
Keep professional roles clear.
Corey provides business analysis, advisory judgment, and practical coordination within the engagement scope.
Your attorney, CPA, lender, and other specialists remain responsible for their respective professional work. You retain the final decisions.
Use technology to support judgment.
Structured workflows and AI-assisted tools can help organize information, summarize documents, and track questions.
They do not replace professional judgment. Corey reviews the work and retains responsibility for advisory conclusions.
Clear relationships. Transparent compensation.
The advisory relationship is with the buyer. Practice Directions does not represent both buyer and seller in the same transaction.
Buyer-advisory fees do not increase with the practice purchase price. For Full Buyer Representation, part of the fee is payable only if the purchase closes. That closing-contingent compensation does not change the responsibility to recommend stopping when the risks or terms do not make sense.
Owner-facing listing and marketing services are separate from buyer advisory. Any proposed engagement must respect existing client relationships and applicable conflict boundaries.
Practical education for future owners
Corey is the author of the Dental Practice Buying Playbook, a practical resource for dentists preparing to evaluate and acquire a practice.
The book and Practice Directions’ educational resources help readers understand the process, recognize important questions, and prepare for conversations with their professional team.
Choose your next step.
Thinking about buying a practice?
Schedule a 20-minute introductory call to discuss your goals, where you are in the process, and whether Practice Directions is a fit.
The call is for fit and scope—not free financial analysis or document review.
Selling independently or hiring an associate?
Review the relevant service page for the package, current availability, pricing, and structured inquiry process.
Exploring an opportunity?
Browse available practices and associate positions, then follow the listing-specific inquiry instructions.
Corey Young, DDS, MBA, CVA, ABI
Practice Directions
C S Young Consulting, LLC
corey@practicedirections.com