There is so much that has been written on this topic, from lots of different gurus, so I will try and add something of meaning. This is based on my personal experience of nearly 30 years in dental industry (yes, I am that old!) and through several different life stages.

When it comes to practice ownership, we are living in a gilded age for many. Owners have a bullish market of buyers from the independent market, smaller group consolidators and the corporates seeking their favour.

The process of buying or selling a dental practice is a famously complicated one but it does not need to be so, if you use professional advisers.

Devonshire House, the specialist dental referral practice in Cambridge, has become the latest acquisition for Riverdale Healthcare, a growing independent dental group.

Henry Schein Ireland and MediHoldings UK, a Henry Schein affiliate, are teaming up to offer a range of personalised dental practice brokerage, practice valuations, and transition planning services as well as recruitment solutions to the dental sector and access to a vast range of financial products and services to dentists across Ireland.