Attention Dentists:
Your Practice Worth at Least 5X What Any DSO Would Offer You!
LEARN HOW YOU CAN JOIN Apricot Grove Dental IN A STRATEGY (PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE TO PRACTICE OWNERS) AS WE GROW TO A MORE-THAN-$1 BILLION-DOLLAR VALUATION IN 2022—
it all happens in Houston, TX, October 7-9, 2022
NDPO Meeting
Buck the Corporate System, Save Your Retirement & Get 5X More for Your Hard-Won Successful Dental Practice
For years, dentists have had two options to sell their practice.
Option One: Sell to a dentist for 70% annual collections
Option Two: Sell to a DSO for a little bit more at the expense of your autonomy
But right now, there’s a better way. You can join us in Becoming the DSO. But this isn’t a forever-opportunity. Big corporate never stands still.
The window is closing, and as time goes by, your options will continue to narrow. Don’t expect to see dentists-owned DSO’s forming ten years from now. This is your chance to step in, stop corporate and get paid what your life’s work is TRULY WORTH.
Eventually, this is the crossroads you’ll face. And as private practitioners age out, fewer opportunities to sell direct to another dentist will be available. Younger dentists are entering the field saddled with debt, unable to get a startup loan to fund a practice or acquire a practice. They’re already working for big corporate dentistry.
Sooner than later, there will be scant few practitioners looking to buy your practice.
If you’re a practice owner, regardless of if you want to sell, you’re selling yourself short if you miss this event.
EXIT STRATEGY 2.0
At first glance, it might seem like selling to a DSO is a no-brainer for getting the most for your practice vs. selling to a practicing dentist.
Sure selling to a dentist is quick, but you’re leaving a lot of money on the table for the sake of convenience.
And selling to a DSO looks great on paper.
Let’s talk about corporate DSOs for a second.
In truth, these corporate raiders engineered a win-lose prison that traps dentists and robs them of autonomy, money and happiness.
Selling to a corporate DSO means death to your autonomy
Selling to a corporate DSO means using their vendors for equipment, supplies and services
Selling to a corporate DSO means the five years of indentured servitude, working for a corporate overlord
Selling to a corporate DSO means putting your dream of retirement (or your next venture) on hold
Selling to a corporate DSO means you’re taking on hidden risks and may not get your full payout
Selling to a corporate DSO means you’re agreeing to a deal where you have zero control
Selling to a corporate DSO means you’re no longer putting your patients first
See how easily the hidden costs of selling to a DSO could end up costing you in the long run and leave you little more than the long-term grief of working for a corporate master for the next five years?
Both of these are designed to entice you with the promise of a payday while leaving you hanging while someone else enjoys the fruit of your life-long labor.
There is a better way.
DON’T JUST EXIT…
THIS “SECRET” STRATEGY IS 5X+ BIGGER!
Look, it’s pretty clear that the exit strategy for dentists isn’t all that attractive.
Sell to another dentist for a fraction of your value or…
Gamble on a sale to a DSO that will keep you in bondage for years instead of enjoying the next phase of life
But you know what IS attractive?
The crazy “secret” deal that DSOs get in return is
ridiculously attractive.
Did you ever stop to ask WHY a DSO is willing to pay 10-15% more
for a practice vs. selling directly to a dentist?
TWO WORDS: PRIVATE EQUITY
That’s why.
Corporate is buying up practices at light speed.
But they aren’t interested in YOUR practice…..on its own.
The strategy is to buy and bundle a large volume of practices so they can flip them to private equity who will, in turn….
Pay a far higher price than the DSO originally paid to acquire these practices individually.
Big private equity views the dental world as a safe investment that will provide medium return with minimal risk.
Why?
It’s a great way for them to round out their portfolios full of high risk investments, and they have trillions of dollars to spend!
Time is not on our side.
DSOs aren’t special.
They’re just a step or two ahead (and they know how to sell assets to cash-rich private equity firms).
Once they acquire a practice, the DSO slaps their business template onto the retiring dentist’s practice to make it just like all their other practices.
The DSO then sells a portion of the retiring dentist’s practice (along with another cluster of 50 practices who went through the same ordeal) to private equity for 5x more than what they paid.
The DSO then buys MORE practices, does the same thing, sells another portion of that…
AGAIN … for EVEN MORE than the first time.
And the cycle continues.
If these DSOs can do it, you can too.
So back to the status quo…
The retiring dentist sells his practice for 80% collections to the DSO and spends 5 years clawing his way through every bit of corporate red tape to claim his freedom or finds a dentist to buy him out for even less…
This cycle is coming to an end.
In 3-5 years, you won’t be able to sell your practice to another dentist. They simply won’t be there. They are becoming Corporate.
Things aren’t getting better for practice owners. It’s time we stood up.
Now is the time to stop these corporate vultures from stealing your joy and your fortune.
There’s a better way.
TOGETHER, WE CAN BECOME THE DSO.
PUTTING DENTISTS
BACK IN CONTROL OF DENTISTRY
With each passing day, more and more private dental practices are being purchased by DSOs.
And, day by day, the overall power of the dentist is dwindling.
We are a group of dentists fighting back against the corporate machine.
WE are a group of over 100 dentists joining forces to beat the DSO at their own game.
WE are creating our own DSO. Apricot Grove Dental.
WE believe dentistry should be controlled by DENTISTS who believe patient care is the top priority.
WE believe dentists should be able to see the same level of profit for their life’s work
as the businesspeople running the DSO.
NDPO MEETING AGENDA
October 7-9, 2022 | Houston, TX