Sell your dental practice — on your terms
Selling doesn't have to mean handing over your name, your team, or the way you practise. Quantum Medix acquires dental practices across the UK, including Northern Ireland, and plans succession around the owner — not around a corporate template.
What “on your terms” actually means
Most owners we speak to aren't chasing the highest number on a spreadsheet. They want to know what happens the day after completion: whether the team is looked after, whether the name above the door survives, and whether they can still practise the way they believe is right.
So we agree those things first — your clinical role, your timeline, and what stays yours — and write them down before anyone asks for exclusivity. A fair offer matters, but certainty about what happens next is usually worth more.
What you keep
- Your name. Keep the identity your patients recognise, rebrand completely, or converge toward the group look over time — your choice, and you can change your mind later.
- Your clinical freedom. You run the dentistry. Decisions stay close to the chair rather than in a distant head office.
- Your team. Their existing terms are protected — employment continues unchanged where the company itself is bought, or transfers under TUPE where the business and assets are — and we plan how and when they hear the news with you.
- Your role, for as long as you want it. Stay on clinically, reduce your days gradually, or hand over cleanly on an agreed date.
How the process works
Four stages, with one shared checklist and one source of truth — so you always know what is outstanding and who owns the next action.
- First conversation. Confidential and no-obligation. We learn about the practice, your intentions and your timeline. Nothing goes further without your say-so.
- Offer. A clear, structured offer — valuation logic, timeline, your future role and what stays with you, all written down.
- Due diligence. Clinical, financial and legal workstreams run in parallel rather than in sequence, which is what usually keeps deals from stalling.
- Completion and beyond. Contracts, transfers and handover are mapped and sequenced, then hands-on support continues afterwards — the part most groups skip.
What is my dental practice worth?
UK dental practices are typically valued on goodwill as a percentage of gross fees, alongside profitability (usually adjusted EBITDA). For context, NASDAL — the association of specialist dental accountants and lawyers — recorded average goodwill of around 124% of gross fees in the quarter ending July 2025, with completed deals ranging from as low as 30% to as high as 263%.
That range is the important part. An average tells you almost nothing about your practice. What actually moves your number is the quality of the underlying business: profitability, the stability of your clinical team, your patient base and recall behaviour, your private-to-NHS mix, surgery capacity, lease terms, and how much of the revenue depends personally on you. Two practices with identical turnover can be valued very differently.
We give you the reasoning behind our number rather than just the number — so you can judge whether it is fair, and take it to your own accountant or solicitor for a second opinion. We would encourage you to.
Private, mixed and NHS practices
We work predominantly with private practices across the UK, including Northern Ireland, and we welcome mixed and NHS practices too. If you are weighing up whether to convert, reduce your NHS commitment, or sell as you are, that is a sensible thing to talk through before you decide — the right answer depends on your contract, your patient base and your timeline.
How long does it take?
A practice sale in the UK commonly takes somewhere between six and twelve months from agreed offer to completion, depending on legal work, lease assignment, finance and regulatory transfers. The single biggest cause of delay is information arriving late or in pieces, which is precisely what the shared checklist is designed to prevent.
Common questions
Do I have to stop practising if I sell?
No. Many owners stay on clinically, step back gradually over an agreed period, or hand over cleanly. The clinical role you want after completion is agreed before terms are signed.
Will I lose my practice name?
Not unless you want to. Keeping your identity is a core path — you can keep the name and character your patients know, rebrand entirely, or move toward the group look later, at your pace.
What happens to my team?
Their existing terms are protected. Where a practice is bought as a company, employment simply continues unchanged; where the business and assets are bought, employees transfer under TUPE, which protects their existing terms. Either way we plan communication with you, so the team hears it properly rather than through rumour.
How is this different from a large dental corporate or consolidator?
We are built as a network rather than a chain that strips identity. Clinical freedom stays close to the chair, and the group carries operations, recruitment and the transition.
Is the conversation confidential?
Yes. Enquiries are private and are only seen by the Quantum Medix team handling them. Nothing is shared with your team, patients or the wider market.
Where to go next
Read more about how we acquire, transition and operate practices, the journey end to end, or the questions owners ask first. When you are ready, start a confidential conversation below — it costs you nothing and commits you to nothing.
Where we stand, so you can weigh this
Quantum Medix acquires dental practices, so we are a buyer and not a neutral adviser. We have written this to be accurate and useful whether or not you ever speak to us, including where the honest answer does not suit us. If another dentist buying your practice outright is the better option for you, we will say so.
We should also be clear about what we can buy. Our model needs a practice that is already associate-led, or one that could become associate-led on a sensible timescale with a plan we both believe in. If you are the practice — most of the clinical work is yours and there is no realistic route to that changing — we are not the right buyer, and we would rather tell you that in the first conversation than the fourth.
This is general information rather than legal, tax or financial advice: before you commit to anything, take your own advice from a solicitor and accountant who work in dentistry regularly. If you spot something here you think is wrong, tell us at partners@quantummedix.com and we will correct it.