Understand the decisions behind private practice ownership.
Buying a practice, selling independently, or exploring an associate opportunity involves decisions that can shape your professional and financial future.
Practice Directions provides practical education to help you understand the process, ask better questions, and recognize when experienced help is worth bringing in.
Our mission is to help private dental practice thrive. Clear, useful information is one part of that work.
Start with the Dental Practice Buying Playbook.
A practical guide to evaluating, financing, and buying a dental practice.
The Dental Practice Buying Playbook helps dentists understand the acquisition process before stepping into it.
Explore the financial, operational, and professional questions involved in evaluating opportunities, preparing an offer, working through due diligence, and planning for ownership.
Use it to build your understanding of the process—not as a substitute for advice about a particular transaction.
Preview the book.
Read free sample chapters to get a sense of the book’s approach before deciding whether to buy.
Find the guidance that fits your next step.
Considering a practice purchase?
Understand the difference between an asking price and a workable acquisition, what the financial information can tell you, and which questions deserve attention before you commit.
Planning to sell independently?
Learn how the assisted for sale by owner (FSBO) listing service combines preparation, broker-level listing tools, marketing, and distribution support while you remain in control of your sale.
Hiring an associate?
See how assisted listing preparation and marketing support can help you explain the role, practice environment, compensation structure, and any genuine ownership pathway.
Exploring an associate position?
Review available opportunities and consider how the clinical role, practice environment, and longer-term possibilities fit your goals.
Frequently asked questions
What is Practice Directions here to do?
Practice Directions helps support the future of private dental practice through informed buying decisions, practical support for independent sellers, and clearly presented associate opportunities.
We place a special emphasis on buyers because acquiring a practice is complicated and buyers benefit from experienced guidance across the financial, operational, and transaction questions.
Do you represent sellers?
Our advisory relationship is with the buyer.
We also provide separate assisted listing and marketing services for owners selling independently and practices advertising associate opportunities. Those services do not, by themselves, create a seller brokerage or representation relationship.
Owners remain responsible for buyer or applicant conversations, negotiations, and transaction or hiring decisions. We do not represent both buyer and seller in the same transaction.
Can you advise me on a practice listed through Practice Directions?
Not automatically.
A listing inquiry does not establish a buyer-advisory relationship. Any proposed engagement must be reviewed for fit and existing client relationships before we agree to provide representation.
Confidential information is released only within the owner’s recorded permission, after the applicable NDA has been verified and Corey has authorized release.
Can I start with analysis rather than full representation?
Yes. Deep Dive Analysis is a self-contained engagement covering up to three target practices.
For $2,500, you receive financial and practice-price analysis, a written memo for each practice reviewed, and a 30-minute review call.
You can use the findings with your existing professional team. There is no requirement to continue into Full Buyer Representation.
What if I want broader help with the purchase?
Full Buyer Representation adds offer strategy, structured due diligence, practical coordination with your professional team, and bounded early transition support.
The total fee is $9,500: $2,500 at engagement and $7,000 only if the purchase closes. If you begin with Deep Dive Analysis, that initial $2,500 applies toward the total engagement fee.
Does your fee increase with the purchase price?
No. The advisory fee does not increase with the price of the practice.
For Full Buyer Representation, part of the compensation depends on closing. That does not change our responsibility to help you make an informed decision—including recommending that you stop when the risks or terms do not make sense.
How is buyer assistance different from the listing broker’s role?
The listing broker generally works for the seller. Your attorney, CPA, and lender also have important responsibilities, but each has a different role.
Practice Directions provides buyer-side analysis, judgment, and coordination to help you connect the financial, operational, and transaction questions.
We complement your professional team rather than replace it.
What is PracticEstimate?
PracticEstimate is an educational price-range report included at no additional charge with the assisted FSBO listing package.
It uses the practice information supplied to help frame asking-price discussions. It is not a formal valuation, appraisal, guarantee of market value, or promise of a particular sale price.
It is delivered through the assisted service—not offered as unlimited self-service analysis. A rerun or new financial analysis is scoped separately before additional work begins.
Does every associate opportunity include ownership?
No. Practice Directions welcomes conventional associate positions as well as genuine ownership-track opportunities.
An ownership pathway is described only when it is actually part of the offering. Applicants should review the stated arrangements and obtain appropriate advice before relying on future ownership possibilities.
Do you work outside Ohio?
Yes. Practice Directions helps buyers throughout the United States with practice analysis and buyer representation.
Owner-listing availability is separate. The assisted FSBO and associate listing services are currently open to Ohio practices, with additional states planned as the service expands.
Does requesting information give me access to every listing’s documents?
No. Signing an NDA or submitting an inquiry does not automatically authorize access to every listing or document.
Available materials depend on the opportunity, the owner’s recorded permissions, and the applicable confidentiality and release requirements.
Do you provide legal, tax, or financing advice?
Practice Directions provides buyer-side business analysis and advisory support within the engagement scope.
Your attorney remains responsible for legal advice and drafting, your CPA for accounting and tax advice, and your lender for underwriting and financing decisions.
Educational resources and practice analysis do not replace those professional services.
Choose your next step.
Buying a practice?
Start with a 20-minute introductory call to discuss your goals, where you are in the process, and whether Practice Directions is a fit.
The introductory 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 what is included, current eligibility, pricing, and the structured inquiry process.