What happens after you sell your dental practice?
There’s plenty of advice about selling a dental practice. We thought you might rather hear from people who’ve already done it.
Four Practice Owners.
Four Different Experiences.
Their Words, Not Ours.
Selling your practice is a huge decision. And while there’s plenty of information about valuations, deals and due diligence, there’s much less about what life actually looks like afterwards.
So we asked practice owners who’ve already been through it.
What changed? What stayed the same? What happened to their teams? And what does life look like after selling?
Brett Garner, Serenity Dental, Fareham
He sold the practice. He kept the dentistry.
Brett didn't want to stop being a dentist. He wanted to spend less time running a business and more time doing the clinical work he loved.
After joining Envisage, the things that mattered to him clinically stayed where they were. The same labs. The same suppliers. The same materials. No clinical targets.
Now I can just concentrate on doing what I’m good at.
Sam & Rob Handley, Abbey Dental Practice, Northwich
They stopped carrying it alone.
Sam and Rob started with six patients written on a sheet of A4 and spent the next 24 years building their practice.
Joining Envisage didn't mean walking away from what they'd created. It meant having people behind them when they needed them.
Before, we’d look behind us and there wasn’t anybody there. Now we look behind us and there are people there.
David Guppy, The Mayhill Dental And Specialist Centre, Monmouth
It wasn't the end of the story.
Selling a practice doesn't have to mean leaving it behind.
Two and a half years after selling his specialist practice, David was still involved — and still confident in the decision he'd made.
For him, selling wasn't about closing something down. It created the opportunity for the next stage.
I didn’t feel it was the end of the book. It was the opening of another chapter.
Jas Sandhu, The High Street Dental Practice, East Grinstead
He left. His team didn't.
Jas stayed with his practice for three years after selling before eventually stepping away.
Months later, the practice was continuing to do well and the team he'd built remained in place.
For a Principal thinking about the legacy they leave behind, that matters.
The new stewards… seem to be doing the right thing.
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