From buying your first practice through to building a network
Join us for our one-day course in Auckland.

Buying a dental practice: 'From buying your first practice through to building a network'
Making sure you buy the right practice, at the right time and at the right price.
Date: Saturday 313 June 2026
Time: 9.00am - 4.30pm
Registration from 8.45am
Light refreshments will be served following the end of the seminar. We'd love for you to join us.
Topics covered will include:
- When to buy?
- How to buy?
- Why invest in a dental practice?
- How to fund?
- What’s the best business structure for your practice?
- When is the best time to buy?
- Co-investors - the reasons for and against the different types of partnerships.
- Location versus revenue versus treatment style.
- How to determine value (book value or actual)?
- Interpreting the financials.
- What makes deals fall over and how to avoid them.
Learning outcomes:
- Start with the end in mind – what’s the best business structure for your practice?
- Learn how to fund and finance your practice purchase
- Decide what's the right location?
- How do you determine value?
- Understanding how to interpret the financials and what questions to ask.
Cost: $349 + gst
$199 + gst for advisors, spouse and additional non-clinical team members (i.e.
practice manager)
CPD: 6 hours
Venue: Central Auckland - venue to be confirmed. There will either be parking available or close to a
central train station for easy access.
Presenter: Dr Tony Dey
Dr Tony Dey, founder of LANZ.Dental, has extensive experience when it comes to buying and selling dental practices. Coming from a family of accountants, Tony has always had a keen interest in the numbers side of dentistry, studying Finance as well as Dentistry at Otago.
20 Years ago LANZ started as a locum recruiting business and has grown significantly. Practice Sales now makes up more than 50% of LANZ.Dental's business.
Tony has personally acquired and sold a number of practices in Ponsonby, Onehunga, Pt Chevalier, Auckland CBD, Wanaka, and Queenstown. He also spent 7 years as the Business Development Manager for Lumino during a period of aggressive acquisition.
During his career, Tony has worked on the buying and selling side of more than 80 practice transactions.
Currently, he is a busy, wet fingered dentist focusing on high value treatments.
If you have any questions please contact us on 03 477 8777 or toni@lanz.dental
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