The 2026 private dental surge: how the practice sales market is recovering

The 2026 private dental surge: how the practice sales market is recovering

Paul Graham analyses why a wider, better-funded buyer pool is driving a significant recovery in the practice sales market this year.

After two years of correction, caution, and recalibration, the dental practice sales market has turned.

Transactional activity is back with conviction, and Q1 2026 has made that plain.

The groundwork was laid in the latter part of 2025, and what we are seeing now is that confidence is converting into completed transactions, active processes, and a buyer pool that is wider and better funded than it has been in some time.

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