Dental Practice: business succession in the UK

Name: Dental Practice business succession in the UK
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2,796 UK dental practice companies — 17.6% — have a director aged 60 or over.

14.9 points below the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured15,921

Director aged 60+2,796

Exposure rate17.6%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

15,921

Companies measured

2,796

With a director 60+

571

With a director 70+

17.6%

Exposure rate

Of the 2,796 with a director over 60, 300 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Dental Practice by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
South West	1,175	300	25.5%
East of England	971	223	23%
Wales	729	159	21.8%
Northern Ireland	277	55	19.9%
South East	2,320	460	19.8%
London	3,941	684	17.4%
East Midlands	865	145	16.8%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,104	165	14.9%
North West	2,001	284	14.2%
West Midlands	1,104	151	13.7%
North East	409	55	13.4%
Scotland	1,017	113	11.1%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Healthcare pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Healthcare →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Dental Practice: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-dental/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.