mia

For dental practice owners in South Africa

Sell your practice, on terms that make sense for you.

Mia Healthcare buys dental practices and keeps the people who built them. Less admin, better systems, room to grow or a planned retirement: the deal is shaped around what you want from the rest of your career.

Why owners talk to us

What you get when you sell to Mia

Dream outcome

Your life’s work in safe hands, and the time to be the dentist you trained to be.

Keep the chair, the team and the standard. Nothing about your day changes except what is no longer in it: no payroll, no compliance deadlines, no collections after hours. Money off the table on a timetable you choose, structured personally and tax-efficiently.

Likelihood

Backed by institutions, built by clinicians.

A medical doctor and a dentist founded Mia and still lead it. Capital from Bidvest Bank, Vumela, SEDFA, Anza and Savant. Member of the Dentist Entrepreneur Organisation. Mark Lakis, Board Advisor through the DEO, has built and exited a 43-practice dental group in the US.

Effort

Book a call. We paint your options.

Thirty minutes, clinician to clinician. We set out the five paths and what each would look like for you. No exclusivity, no cost, and a confidentiality agreement before we see a number.

Time

WhatsApp Dylan today.

There is no deadline, but the best time to sell is usually before you have to. Dylan runs every deal from first visit to completion.

Your options

Five paths, shaped around you

No two owners want the same thing from a sale. As clinicians, we treat that as the starting point of every deal. We first understand what you want for your career, your life, your team and your practice, now and in the long run. Then we build the deal around it. Most owners sit across more than one path.

Path 1 of 5

Less business, more dentistry

Hand over the admin, keep the chair

Who it is for

For you if you love the dentistry and have had enough of everything wrapped around it.

What changes

Payroll, HR, compliance, collections, accounts and supplier admin move to Mia's central team. Your chair, your patients, your treatment decisions and your team culture stay. Your day stays the same, minus the after-hours admin.

How the deal usually looks

A sale of the practice, with you staying on as its clinician under an agreement that sets out your days, your pay and your clinical freedom.

Your guide to selling

Four short reads before we talk

Part 1 of 4

How a deal works

What changes, when to sell, how a practice is valued, and how you get paid.

Part 2 of 4

The SA landscape

Succession, the model from abroad, and what South Africa needs instead.

Part 3 of 4

Why Mia

Who we are, what we are building, and how our model compares.

Part 4 of 4

Our platform

Our services, our people, and support before a sale.

A Mia dentist and a patient smiling in the chair

When to sell

When to sell, and how it happens

There is no right age to sell. The best time is usually before you have to. Planned early, a sale is your choice. Left late, it tends to happen on the buyer’s terms.

  • Across the country, a generation of senior owners will need to exit within five to ten years.
  • Pressure to sell rarely arrives on your timetable: health, a partner who wants out, a lease ending, burnout.
  • Not ready yet? Agree what a clean exit looks like, and build towards it with us.

Book a call

A call. Your timeline.

Leave your details and we will arrange a 30-minute conversation. No automated chase sequence.

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Your questions

Commonly asked questions

No. There is no deadline on this. It is a very personal process, and we work through it with you to make sure we get it right.

Talk to Dylan

Clinician-led. Family-owned. South African. Built to last.

Thirty minutes, clinician to clinician, about your practice and your timing.

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