Build a more profitable, better-managed and stronger dental practice
Samera helps dental practice owners and groups understand what is holding back growth, build stronger financial systems, make better decisions from their numbers and use technology to grow more efficiently.
From a one-off Growth Strategy Session through to financial infrastructure, ongoing CFO support and AI-powered automation, we can support you as the business becomes more complex.
Diagnose
Figure out what is holding you back, where the opportunities are and what you need to do next.
Build
Put the financial infrastructure, reporting and controls in place to support the growth of your practice or group.
Manage
Get ongoing CFO advice and financial support to improve profitability, make better decisions and implement your growth strategy.
Automate
Use Clever Practice, automation and AI to reduce manual work, identify financial problems and make a growing business easier to manage.
Diagnose
Find out what is holding back growth
When a practice is busy but profits are not improving, or you know the business could be performing better but are not sure where to focus, the first step is understanding what is actually getting in the way.
We look across the financial and commercial side of the practice to identify where money is being lost, where the biggest opportunities are and which changes should be prioritised.
Who it’s for: Practice owners who know the business could be performing better, but are not sure where the biggest problems or opportunities are.
Growth Strategy Session
A one-off session with Arun Mehra to review your practice, identify the biggest opportunities and problems, and give you a clear, prioritised action plan within 48 hours.
Price: £500 + VAT
Book a Growth Strategy Session
Build
Build the financial foundations for growth
As a dental practice or group grows, the finances become more complicated. You need better reporting, clearer KPIs and stronger financial controls so you can understand performance and make decisions with confidence.
We help put the financial structure in place so you can see what is happening across the business, spot problems earlier and manage growth without losing control of the numbers.
Who it’s for: Growing practices and dental groups that have outgrown basic accounts and spreadsheets and need better reporting, controls and financial visibility.
Financial Infrastructure
A structured project to build the reporting, forecasting, controls and financial systems your practice or group needs as it grows.
Price: Depends on the size of your business.
Manage
Make better financial decisions as you grow
As your practice or group gets larger, the financial decisions become more frequent and more important. Profitability, acquisitions, debt, cash flow and group structure all need more active management than year-end accounts can provide.
We provide ongoing CFO support to help you understand performance, make better decisions and keep your growth plans financially workable.
Who it’s for: Practice owners and groups that need ongoing senior financial input to manage profitability, growth, acquisitions, funding and bigger strategic decisions.
CFO & Growth Advisory
Ongoing senior financial support for practice owners and dental groups, covering profitability, forecasting, acquisitions, funding, debt structure and strategic planning.
Price: from £1,500 + VAT per month
CFO advice for dental practices
Automate
Use AI and automation to make growth easier to manage
As a practice or group grows, so does the amount of financial admin behind it. More associates, more invoices, more sites and more data can quickly mean more spreadsheets, more manual checking and less visibility.
We use technology, automation and AI to remove repetitive work, surface financial problems earlier and give you a clearer view of what is happening across the business.
Who it’s for: Practices and groups spending too much time on repetitive finance and admin tasks, or struggling to manage increasing volumes of data, invoices, associates and sites.
Clever Practice
Clever Practice helps automate day-to-day financial processes, improve visibility over performance and make a growing dental business easier to manage.
Price: From £100 + VAT per month per location. Samera accounting clients receive lower platform pricing. Groups of 5+ locations are priced by agreement.
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Exit planning
Grow the value of your practice before you sell
If selling is part of your long-term plan, the work you do before going to market can materially affect the value of the business. Improving sustainable EBITDA, strengthening reporting, reducing risks and making the practice less dependent on you can all make the business more attractive to buyers.
Who it’s for: Practice owners who expect to sell in the next few years and want time to improve EBITDA, strengthen the business and address issues before going to market.
Dental Practice Exit Planning
A structured programme to improve profitability, strengthen the business and prepare it for sale before buyers begin their due diligence.
Exit Readiness Audit: £1,500 one-off
Practice Exit Accelerator: £650 + VAT per month for 18 months
Plan for selling your dental practice
Other ways we help dental practices and groups to grow
Dental accountants
Specialist accounts, tax and financial support for dental practice owners as the business grows and becomes more complex.
Accounts for dental groups
Group accounting, consolidated reporting, tax and financial management for multi-site dental businesses and DSOs.
Dental practice finance broker
Raise finance for acquisitions, refinancing, property, equipment and further investment in your dental business.
Buy a dental practice
Financial and commercial support for acquiring your next practice, from valuation and due diligence through to finance and completion.
Fee Review
Understand what each treatment really costs to deliver and identify where changes to your fees could improve profitability.
Tax Planning for Dentists
Plan ahead as profits increase and your business structure becomes more complex, rather than dealing with tax only at year end.
Sell a dental practice
When you are ready to sell, get support with valuation, EBITDA preparation, buyer matching, negotiation and the transaction through to completion.
Global Capability Centers
For larger dental groups and DSOs, build your own team in India for finance, payroll, reporting, compliance, data and other non-clinical operations.
Who we are
Who you’ll work with
Growing your practice often means working across strategy, finance, accountancy and technology, so you may work with different members of the Samera team depending on what the business needs.
CEO & Founder, Samera
Works with practice owners on growth strategy, profitability, financial performance and the bigger commercial decisions involved in building a stronger dental business.
- Growth strategy and profitability
- Growth Strategy Sessions
- Financial infrastructure and management reporting
- CFO and strategic finance support
- Preparing a practice or group for growth or eventual exit
Director of Operations – Accountancy and Tax
Supports the accounting, reporting, tax and financial management side of growing practices and groups.
- Dental practice and group accountancy
- Management accounts and financial reporting
- Tax planning and business structure
- Improving the quality and consistency of financial information
- Accounting support as the practice or group becomes more complex
Business Development Executive
Praju helps dental practices and groups use Clever Practice, AI and automation to reduce manual work, improve financial visibility and make day-to-day operations easier to manage.
- Clever Practice AI and automation for dental practices and groups
- Associate pay automation
- Automating repetitive finance and admin processes
- Improving visibility over financial and operational data
- Using technology to make a growing practice easier to manage
Commercial Finance Broker
Supports practice owners with funding and finance where growth involves acquisitions, refinancing, property or further investment.
- Acquisition finance
- Refinancing and restructuring existing debt
- Property and freehold finance
- Equipment and asset finance
- Funding expansion or investment in the practice
Other ways to reach us
Prefer not to book a call? You can also get in touch directly or send a message and we’ll get back to you.
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: (+44) 20 7100 8788
- WhatsApp: Message us on WhatsApp
Why Samera
Why dental practice owners choose Samera
Samera has worked with dentists since 2002, but our experience goes beyond advising from the sidelines. We have also started, grown and sold dental practices ourselves through The Neem Tree dental group.
That gives you a team that understands both the numbers and what it is actually like to own and grow a dental business.
Dental specialists since 2002
We have spent more than two decades working with dentists, practice owners and dental groups.
We have built a dental group ourselves
We have built our own successful dental group. The advice we give has been developed through 20+ years of hands-on experience.
Strategy, finance and accountancy together
Instead of using separate advisors, our team combines experience in accounts, finance, business growth and practice ownership.
Technology built for dental businesses
Through Clever Practice, we can also help automate the finance and admin processes that become harder to manage as a business grows.
Support from one practice to a dental group
The level of support we provide can change as the business becomes larger and the financial decisions become more complex.
Regulated and recognised
Samera is listed in the ICAEW directory and is a Xero Partner. Commercial finance services are provided separately through Samera Finance Ltd, FCA authorised (FRN 757431) and a member of the NACFB.
Case studies
Dental practice growth in practice
Turn around an underperforming practice
A busy private practice was growing patient numbers but profitability was falling. Better reporting helped identify unprofitable associates, rising costs and pricing issues, with performance improving within six months.
Build better financial systems across a dental group
A 25+ surgery dental group standardised its accounting and reporting, creating clearer financial information across the business and cutting routine accounting time by 80%.
Build value before an eventual sale
A practice owner reduced their clinical time to one day a week while strengthening the business and preparing it for sale, ultimately achieving above-average sale multiples.
Reviews
What our clients say
… the experienced, knowledgeable and approachable Samera team presented a comprehensive overview of group dentistry – from marketing and growth at practice level, to structure and exit at group level. The all-encompassing team were able to advise candidly on all aspects of this journey. Would highly recommend!
AJ – 5 Stars
Been with Samera since 2008 when we bought our first dental practice, their knowledge and expertise is second to none not least because they also own their own dental practices, putting them in a unique position in terms of their knowledge and advice for the Dental Industry. Whether you’re setting up from scratch or acquiring an existing practice, Samera have been there to offer advice on raising finance, staff and team issues, tax knowledge, leadership and having a strong vision, marketing, getting into purchasing groups and also purchasing equipment.
Saijel Kachhala – 5 Stars
Arun Mehra and his friendly team helped and advised me in all matters of accountancy, raising finance, payroll, furlough support and general business advice. The whole teams collective vast experience and knowledge in all business matters and dentistry is invaluable when you are running any type or size of business.
Antimos Ouzounoglou – 5 Stars
Huge thanks to Natasha, Aditi, Arun, Karyn, and the entire Samera team for their outstanding support and guidance. Their professionalism, responsiveness, and deep expertise is a great support for our business. I truly felt supported every step of the way. Highly recommended!
Rajvansh Juneja – 5 Stars
Arun, Natasha and all the team at Samera have provided outstanding service to me over a number of years – they are experts and are friendly and easy to deal with – would thoroughly recommend.
Peter Grimes – 5 Stars
Common questions about growing a dental practice with Samera
I’m not sure what is holding back the growth of my practice – which service should I use?
If you want to grow your dental practice but you’re not sure what is holding you back, start with the Growth Strategy Session. It is a one-off review with Arun designed to identify the biggest problems and opportunities in your business and give you a prioritised action plan for what to tackle first.
What is the difference between Financial Infrastructure and CFO & Growth Advisory?
Financial Infrastructure builds the reporting, controls and financial systems you need, while CFO & Growth Advisory provides ongoing senior financial support once those foundations are in place.
You may need one or both depending on the size and complexity of your practice or group.
Do I need to own a dental group to use these services?
No. We work with individual practice owners as well as multi-site dental groups and DSOs. The right level of support depends on the complexity of your business and the decisions you are making, not simply how many practices you own.
Can Samera help me improve the profitability of my dental practice?
Yes. We can help you understand where profitability is being lost and identify opportunities to improve margins, fees, costs, associate performance, cash flow and sustainable EBITDA.
The right starting point will depend on how much financial information and reporting you already have in place.
Can you help me grow by buying more dental practices?
Yes. Samera can support the financial side of acquisition-led growth, including acquisition finance, financial due diligence, modelling, dental practice mergers, group accountancy and ongoing CFO support.
We can also help you understand how a potential acquisition will affect cash flow, debt and the wider financial position of your group.
How does Clever Practice help a growing dental business?
Clever Practice uses our software, automation and AI built in-house by Samera to reduce manual financial and administrative work and give you better visibility over your business.
It can help automate processes such as associate pay and accounts payable, identify financial issues earlier and make increasing volumes of data easier to manage as your practice or group grows.
Can Samera help me increase the value of my practice before I sell?
Yes. Our Dental Practice Exit Planning service focuses on strengthening the business before it goes to market.
That can include improving sustainable EBITDA, strengthening financial reporting, reducing risks, improving systems and making the business less dependent on the owner.
Do I need to use Samera for my accounts to use the growth services?
Not for every service. You can use the Growth Strategy Session and other one-off strategic services while keeping your existing accountant. However, our ongoing CFO & Growth Advisory retainers require Samera to manage your accounts so that the advisory team is working from accurate, up-to-date financial information.
How much does Samera’s dental practice growth support cost?
The cost depends on the type and level of support you need. A Growth Strategy Session costs £500 + VAT. Ongoing CFO & Growth Advisory starts from £1,500 + VAT per month, with higher tiers for larger groups requiring more frequent and senior-level support. Financial Infrastructure and other projects are priced according to scope and complexity.
We will explain the cost before you commit to any service.