The 2023 CBP lists 32 offices of dentists with paid staff in Maury County, TN.
Equipment financing for chairs and imaging, a term loan for a practice purchase and a credit line for lab bills. Maury County, TN dental office figures and invented payment examples.
At a glance
- Offices of Dentists (NAICS 6212), Maury County, TN
32 employer establishments, 9 with fewer than five employees (CBP 2023)
- Payroll at Maury County, TN offices of dentists
$17.8 million in annual payroll for 2023 (CBP)
- Offices of dentists with a ZIP 37174 address
17 employer establishments (ZBP 2023)
Dental practice purchase loans for Maury County, TN: milling units, lab bills and hygiene room equipment
Buying an existing dental practice means buying a working business: the patient records and the name, the chairs and imaging, a milling unit if the office mills its own crowns, and the open lab cases and supply orders that come with it. A funding partner can review that kind of purchase as a business acquisition.
| Part of the price | Invented amount |
|---|---|
| Patient base, records and the practice name (goodwill) | $410,000 |
| Imaging, a milling unit and front-office systems | $150,000 |
| Equipment for three hygiene rooms: chairs, delivery units and operatory lights | $60,000 |
| Supplies on hand and open lab cases | $20,000 |
| Total price | $640,000 |
Equipping a hygiene room is equipment. Work on the room itself is property work, and so is the building if the seller owns it: neither is arranged through this site.
A practice for sale in the county is likely to come with a team. Of the 32 offices of dentists Maury County, TN counted in 2023, 23 employed five people or more (71.9%, our arithmetic on CBP 2023, NAICS 6212).
When dental offices in Spring Hill, TN finance dental chairs instead of paying cash
A dental chair with its delivery unit and light is used every day for years, which is the plain case for spreading its cost over part of that life. Paying cash avoids interest, but it moves a large sum out of the account that also meets payroll and the lab.
Illustration only, invented figures: an office replaces 4 operatory chairs, each package priced at $28,500, for $114,000 in all. A 60-month schedule at an annual rate of 8.9% puts each installment at $2,360.92 and the interest for the whole schedule at $27,655.20. Bought with cash, the same chairs cost no interest and take $114,000 from the bank on delivery day.
Equipment financing keeps the chairs as the asset behind the payments, and the vendor’s quote, delivery and installation of the units can sit in the same request.
What lenders ask a Spring Hill, TN dental office about a practice purchase
A funding partner looking at the purchase of a dental practice can review:
- the signed letter of intent or the draft purchase agreement, showing how much of the price is goodwill and how much is equipment
- the seller’s production and collections reports for recent years
- the transition plan: how long the selling dentist stays on and how patients are introduced
- the buying dentist’s years in practice and current production
- the office lease or its assignment, after a lawyer has read it
Staff come with the practice, and the payroll figures show their weight. Offices of dentists in Maury County, TN paid $17.8 million in annual payroll during 2023 (CBP 2023), close to $557,300 per office across the 32 offices by our division; that payroll covers everyone on it, from the front desk to the operatory.
Funding a practice purchase and dental chairs for a Maury County, TN dental office
A practice purchase and new chairs can arrive at the same time when the chairs that come with the sale are near the end of their life. They are two different pieces: the purchase is one fixed sum for a term loan, and the chairs are equipment with their own schedule.
Illustration only, invented figures: $640,000 for the practice over 10 years at an annual rate of 8.5% sets a monthly installment of $7,935.08. Replacing chairs for $57,000 over 60 months at 9.25% adds $1,190.15, so the two together call for $9,125.23 a month while both run.
A partner reviewing both can set the combined payment against the collections in the seller’s reports, so it helps to show both pieces in one conversation.
Dental office loans in Spring Hill, TN for imaging upgrades, not just dental chairs
Imaging is a different kind of purchase from a chair. A CBCT scanner, a panoramic unit, an intraoral scanner or a set of digital sensors changes what the office can see and do in the chair, and each comes with software and training from the vendor.
Illustration only, invented figures: a $98,000 CBCT scanner over 60 months at an annual rate of 9.1% carries an installment of $2,039.08; a $32,000 intraoral scanner over 36 months at the same rate carries $1,019.08.
Lab bills are a running cost, not equipment. A business line of credit can carry them from the month the crowns are ordered to the month the insurance and patient payments come in.
By physical location, 17 offices of dentists had a ZIP 37174 street address in 2023 (ZBP 2023). Dental offices that run with no paid staff are tracked by a different program: 12 in Maury County, TN in the 2024 Nonemployer Statistics (NAICS 6212). The Spring Hill, TN page explains how those county and ZIP lines fall, and the industries hub covers physician offices and other Maury County, TN trades.
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