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.