South Carolina

If you're a dentist in South Carolina thinking about what comes next for your practice, you're in good company, South Carolina is where I call home.

I hear some version of this question in nearly every conversation I have — whether it's with an owner in Charleston who's been building a practice for thirty years, someone in Columbia weighing an offer from a DSO, or a dentist in Greenville who just wants to know what their practice is actually worth before they make any decisions.

I'm Rod Strickland. I practiced dentistry for thirty years myself before stepping into this work, so when we talk, we're not talking broker to client — we're talking dentist to dentist. I know what it took to build what you have, and I know how easy it is for that value to slip away if the transition isn't handled right.

That's really the heart of what I do at Legacy Practice Transitions Southeast. Over 3,000+ transitions and 30+ years, one pattern shows up again and again: practices lose value fast in the months after a dentist dies or becomes unable to practice, and most owners have never put anything in place to protect against that. Our Legacy Protection Plan starts with a real valuation of your practice — not a guess, not a formula pulled off the internet — and keeps that valuation current every year. If something happens to you, the plan is already in motion to list and sell the practice, preserving the value you spent a career building instead of watching it evaporate.

South Carolina dentists are also weighing something else right now: whether to sell to a DSO or sell privately. I've built out the actual numbers on this — what a corrected EBITDA looks like once you account for fair doctor compensation, and what a 3–5x DSO multiple really translates to versus a private sale at market value. The gap is usually much bigger than dentists expect, and it's worth understanding before you sign anything.

If you're anywhere in South Carolina and want an honest read on where your practice stands, I'd be glad to talk it through with you.