Dental practices fund three things above all: equipment and operatory build-outs, the gap between doing the work and being paid by insurers, and buying into or expanding a practice. All three are financed against the practice's bank deposits — steady patient and insurance income is exactly what underwriters want to see.
Why dental offices place easily
A dental practice is close to the ideal file: recurring patients, insurance income that arrives on a schedule, and demand that does not follow the economy down. Where a seasonal trade has to explain its slow months, a dental office's statements usually speak for themselves.
What decides the offer is the same as any business: monthly deposits, time in business and account conduct across four months of statements. The dental part mostly just helps.
Equipping an operatory without draining the account
Chairs, imaging, CAD/CAM units and sterilisation equipment are exactly the kind of purchase equipment financing exists for: the asset secures the deal, terms stretch to match its working life, and the equipment starts earning while it pays for itself.
For smaller amounts — instruments, software, a refurbishment — revenue-based working capital is often faster than setting up asset finance, and the fixed daily payment sits comfortably against steady practice income.
Bridging the insurance gap
The work happens today; the reimbursement lands in thirty to ninety days. That gap is a cash-flow problem, not a profitability problem, and it suits a line of credit: draw against the slow weeks, repay when the insurer settles, and pay only for what was drawn.
A practice billing steadily but constantly tight on cash is usually looking at this gap — and it is fixable without touching the practice's ownership or assets.
Buying in, buying out, expanding
Practice acquisitions and buy-ins are larger, slower files — typically SBA or term loan territory, where the lower rate justifies the heavier documentation. Where a seller wants speed or a deposit needs securing while the loan completes, shorter-term funding can bridge the timing.
Whatever the structure, the practice's four months of statements remain the core evidence. Start there and the rest of the file follows.
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