Mary Smith was a forty-two-year-old office manager who had been working for Dr. A for the past twelve years. Mary enjoyed a good salary and benefits from her job. She and her husband had purchased a new house a few years before, and her children were approaching college age. As a result, her income was necessary to support her family’s current lifestyle, and she felt she had job security for as long as Dr. A remained in practice.
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It’s interesting to note how many doctors worry more about the fee they will pay for selling their dental practice than the net amount (after taxes) they will ultimately realize from the sale. We have seen doctors take fifty to sixty percent less than the actual value of their practice, and even others who walked away from their practice, just to avoid paying a fee for having it sold for them! The real question should be, of course, is how much money does a doctor lose by trying to sell his den
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