Buying a dental clinic is one of the biggest financial decisions of your career. Get it right.
Mint Ops helps dentists across Canada buy a dental practice, with a free Clarity Call and a $1,750 letter of opinion on what the practice is worth.
Dental school prepares you for clinical care. It doesn’t prepare you for the moment you’re sitting across from a seller, reviewing a listing package, and trying to determine whether the practice is worth what it’s asking.
That’s a different skill set, and we developed it from the inside, as people who have owned and operated dental practices and guided others through buying and selling them. When we review a listing with you, we read the practice behind the spreadsheet.
What a listing package won’t tell you.
Every practice listed for sale looks reasonable on paper. Practices that don't sell quickly tend to get better packaging while the fundamentals stay the same. What matters is what sits underneath the numbers, and knowing where to look.
The risks that catch buyers off guard are rarely obvious. A patient base that is older than the demographics suggest and not being actively replenished. Hygiene production held together by one long-tenured hygienist whose departure hasn't been priced in. Equipment that is functional but approaching the end of its useful life in ways that don't show up on a balance sheet. A team whose loyalty is to the outgoing dentist, not the practice. Overhead ratios that leave no room for debt servicing at acquisition price.
None of these are disqualifying on their own. Some are negotiating points. Some are reasons to walk away. Some are things that can be addressed before close if you know they're there. The difference between a buyer who finds out during due diligence and one who finds out six months into ownership is the conversation that happens before an offer is made.
Access to opportunities that aren’t publicly listed.
Most practice acquisitions that go well start with the right introduction instead of a public listing. A seller who is ready to have a conversation but not ready to go to market publicly. A practice in the right location, the right size, the right stage.
Mint Ops has been working inside Canadian dental practices since 1978. That began with the software. Remote administration, marketing and recruitment each added their own relationships; transition consulting launched in 2026. Today that history spans over 1,500 clinic relationships coast to coast to coast. When a buyer tells us what they're looking for, we ask across relationships that have been built over decades, in every province, in markets urban and rural.
For opportunities that are publicly listed, our clinic listings page is the place to start.
Before you make an offer, know what you’re offering on.
A letter of opinion is an independent assessment of a practice’s value: an objective, defensible number produced by someone with no stake in the transaction, separate from the seller’s asking price and the broker’s estimate. For a buyer, it is one of the most useful tools available before an offer is made.
It tells you whether the asking price reflects the practice’s actual value. It tells you where the gaps are between what the listing claims and what the numbers support. And it gives you a basis for negotiation that is grounded in the specific financial and operational reality of the practice in front of you. It is for practices listed by other brokers. On the practices Mint Ops lists, we act for the seller, and the listing package costs you nothing.
The letter of opinion costs $1,750. You know what you’re buying before you commit to buying it.
What working with us looks like from the buyer’s side.
What it costs.
There are three things a buyer might pay for, and you are given the number for each one before it starts.
The initial Clarity Call is free. The letter of opinion is $1,750. That price reflects the work of producing an independent, defensible assessment, and it is set so that cost does not stand in the way of getting one. If you engage us for full deal negotiation and due diligence support, that is a flat fee, scoped and agreed before the work begins.
None of it is a percentage of what you pay for the practice. Our fee does not rise with the purchase price, so nothing in the way we are paid rewards us for talking you into a bigger number. A buyer engagement costs less than a seller engagement because the work is narrower: knowing what you’re buying before you commit to it, and having someone in your corner through the terms that follow.
The right practice is out there. The right guidance makes the difference between finding it and settling.
Make this decision with someone whose interests are aligned with yours. Bring us in early: before you’re in front of a listing, before you’ve fallen in love with a number, before the pressure to decide has built. The earlier the conversation happens, the more useful we can be.