Dental office financing is not a credit card. Practices carry inventory (implants, ceramics, anesthetics), lease or own real property, employ hygienists and front-desk staff, and bill a mix of PPO insurance, Medi-Cal, and cash patients. Lenders want to see production reports, aging accounts receivable, and your hygiene-recare schedule. Most community banks in Palmdale will not underwrite a startup unless you bring 30% down and two years of tax returns. That is where brokering helps: we pull from regional and national lenders who write dental-specific paper every day.
Answer capsule: Dental business financing covers equipment, tenant improvements, working capital, and practice buyouts. Because dental revenue is semi-predictable and equipment holds resale value, lenders often approve terms longer than standard business loans, sometimes ten years for real estate or seven for chairs and imaging.
Loan programs
Answer capsule: SBA 7(a), equipment financing, and commercial real estate loans are the three workhorses of dental practice financing. Each program requires different documentation. We map your situation to the program with the best fit and compile the file.
for dental practices are the gold standard for acquisition or owner-occupied real estate. A 7(a) loan can finance up to $5 million with ten-to-twenty-five-year amortization.
funds chairs, autoclaves, Panorex units, lasers, and CAD/CAM mills. The gear itself serves as collateral, so approval is faster than unsecured credit.
apply when you buy the building. Many Palmdale dentists lease first, then purchase their suite near Rancho Vista or along Technology Drive when cash flow stabilizes.
and business lines of credit cover payroll gaps, supply orders, and marketing pushes. Invoice factoring is rare in dentistry but possible if you carry large PPO receivables.
You send us profit-and-loss statements, equipment quotes, lease agreements, and aging reports. We format them into lender-ready packages and submit to multiple sources in parallel. One dentist in Quartz Hill needed $120,000 for two operatories and a Planmeca scanner; we brokered an equipment loan in nineteen days because every document was indexed and labeled before submission.
Brokers do not set rates or approve loans. We connect you to lenders, translate underwriting requests, and track conditions to closing. You stay in the operatory; we handle the paper chase.
A three-operatory practice on Palmdale Boulevard wanted to add pediatric dentistry and needed two more chairs, a waiting-room remodel, and six months of marketing budget. Total: $175,000. The owner had been in business four years with strong hygiene recall but modest profit margins because of PPO write-offs. We brokered a combination: $120,000 equipment term loan and a $55,000 working-capital line. Funding closed in twenty-eight days. Documentation included tax returns, a production report by procedure code, the contractor's bid, and equipment invoices.
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