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Dental CPAs & Practice Advisory Specialists

You became a dentist to change lives. Let's build a practice that changes yours.

LLI Advisory Group helps dentists start, purchase, manage, grow, value, and transition practices with specialized accounting, tax, and financial guidance.

Dental Accounting · Practice Advisory · Valuations · Transitions

Serving New Jersey, New York City, and dental practices nationwide.

Dental-specialized CPAs
Practice-lifecycle guidance
Industry benchmarking
Valuation & transition expertise
Practice Lifecycle Navigator

Where are you in your practice journey?

Every stage of practice ownership carries its own financial questions, tax implications, and risks. Start where you are — and get guidance built for exactly that moment.

Principals & Team

Dental expertise is built through years of immersion—not occasional exposure.

Every LLI relationship is anchored by a principal who personally reviews your practice financials, alongside a relationship manager and staff assigned to your account.

LLI Advisory Group dental accountants team
Gerard Iacovano, Managing Director · Healthcare Division
Managing Director · Healthcare Division

Gerard Iacovano, CPA

Jerry is a managing director of LLI Advisory Group and heads the firm's healthcare division. For more than 30 years, he has specialized in accounting, taxation, and estate and financial planning for healthcare practitioners.

Domenick Lobifaro, Managing Tax Director
Managing Tax Director

Domenick Lobifaro, CPA, MST

Dom is a managing tax director of LLI Advisory Group. For more than 25 years, he has provided tax, accounting, and business consulting services to high-net-worth individuals and closely held businesses.

Dena Testa, Partner · Accounting Division
Partner · Accounting Division

Dena Testa, CPA

Dena joined LLI more than a decade ago and became a partner in 2023. She co-heads the firm's accounting division and specializes in accounting, taxation, and financial planning for healthcare practitioners.

Practice Stages

Every stage of ownership has its own financial moment.

Dental Specialization

A general accountant sees financial statements. A dental advisor sees the practice behind them.

Reading a dental P&L well requires knowing what "normal" looks like — by specialty, geography, and stage. Our team has spent decades inside dental practices, and we bring that context into every report we produce and every conversation we have.

  • Collections & production
  • Staffing & clinical labor
  • Dental supplies
  • Lab fees
  • Occupancy costs
  • Provider compensation
  • Practice overhead
  • Specialty benchmarks
  • Associate arrangements
  • Practice-valuation drivers
Profitability & Practice Value

Today's profitability becomes tomorrow's practice value.

What a buyer or valuator sees five years from now is built from what you measure, decide, and document today. We help you make those numbers stronger — and provable.

  1. Step 01
    Measure
  2. Step 02
    Compare
  3. Step 03
    Improve
  4. Step 04
    Document
  5. Step 05
    Value
  6. Step 06
    Transition
Signature Focus — Capital Gains & Transitions

The terms of a practice sale can shape the taxes long after the agreement is signed.

A dental practice transition can involve practice valuation, asset allocation, goodwill, depreciation recapture, accounts receivable, entity structure, payment timing, installment considerations, and federal and state capital gains — coordinated with attorneys, brokers, lenders, and wealth advisors.

  1. 1Define personal & professional goals
  2. 2Assess practice readiness
  3. 3Determine fair market value
  4. 4Model deal structures & tax consequences
  5. 5Coordinate the professional advisory team
  6. 6Support negotiation & due diligence
  7. 7Prepare for closing & post-sale planning
Outcome-Based Services

Organized around what you want to accomplish.

Our services are grouped by outcome — not accounting terminology — so it's easy to find the guidance that matches the decision in front of you.

Launch with confidence

Open the doors with the financial foundation right the first time.

Entity choice, financing package, and dental-specific accounting setup — coordinated so day one at the practice feels organized, not improvised.

  • Entity & tax considerations
  • Financial projections
  • Financing support
  • Accounting-system setup
  • Startup navigation
Build a more profitable practice

See what's really driving — or draining — your practice each month.

Dental accounting, benchmarks, and advisory conversations that turn month-end reports into decisions you can act on.

  • Dental accounting
  • Financial reporting
  • Industry benchmarking
  • Overhead analysis
  • Practice advisory
Reduce tax exposure

Year-round tax planning — not once-a-year reconciliation.

Business and individual tax planning, projections, and entity strategy tuned for how dental practices actually earn and reinvest.

  • Year-round tax planning
  • Business & individual tax preparation
  • Tax projections
  • Entity & compensation considerations
Purchase strategically

Buy the practice you inspected — not the one on the flyer.

Independent financial due diligence, practice valuation, and financing coordination so you commit with clear eyes.

  • Financial due diligence
  • Practice valuation
  • Purchase analysis
  • Financing coordination
Protect the value you've built

Make the practice easier to value — and easier to sell.

Valuation, records preparation, and succession planning that make future transitions smoother and better-priced.

  • Practice valuations
  • Transition readiness
  • Financial-record preparation
  • Succession planning
Transition on stronger terms

The terms of a sale can shape your taxes long after signing.

Sale guidance, deal-structure analysis, and capital-gains modeling coordinated with your attorney, broker, and wealth advisor.

  • Sale guidance
  • Deal-structure analysis
  • Purchase-price allocation considerations
  • Capital-gains modeling
  • Professional-team coordination
Client Journey

Specialized guidance at every stage of ownership.

  1. Step 01

    Practice-Stage Conversation

    Identify where you are today and what decision comes next.

  2. Step 02

    Secure Financial Collection

    Gather tax returns, practice statements, production reports, and relevant agreements.

  3. Step 03

    Dental Financial Assessment

    Review profitability, benchmarks, taxes, value, and risk.

  4. Step 04

    Strategic Recommendations

    Establish priorities and a practical action plan you can execute.

  5. Step 05

    Implementation & Coordination

    Work alongside your attorney, banker, broker, and wealth advisor.

  6. Step 06

    Ongoing Advisory Support

    Revisit performance and strategy as the practice evolves.

Client Voice

Trusted by dentists for over two decades.

Since 2004, LLI Advisory Group has served hundreds of dental practices nationwide, from first-year startups to multi-location groups preparing for transition.

"Excellent service and financial transparency. We've used LLI for years, and they've always provided excellent service and financial transparency. They are a trusted partner to our business."
— Mark Garrett, Dental Practice Owner
Geographic Authority

Rooted in New Jersey. Trusted by dentists nationwide.

Our office is in Cranford, New Jersey, with strong roots across Union County, Northern New Jersey, and Manhattan — and long-standing relationships with dental practice owners throughout the Northeast and across the country.

  • Cranford
  • Union County
  • Northern New Jersey
  • New York City
  • Manhattan
  • Greater Northeast
  • Nationwide
Modern dental practice consultation environment
Dental Practice Financial Library

Guidance from the LLI team.

Original articles on profitability, tax, valuations, purchases, and transitions — written by the CPAs and advisors who work with dental practices every day.

Capital Gains

How Dental Practice Sales Are Taxed

A plain-English walkthrough of how a practice sale is characterized between capital gains, ordinary income, and depreciation recapture — and why allocation matters.

Domenick Lobifaro, CPA, MST9 min read
Practice Transitions

Purchase-Price Allocation in a Practice Sale

Goodwill, equipment, restrictive covenants, and consulting agreements each carry different tax treatments. How to model allocation before the LOI.

Domenick Lobifaro, CPA, MST7 min read
Valuations

Increasing Practice Value Before a Transition

The two-to-five-year window before a sale is when practice value is truly made — through overhead discipline, associate structure, and record cleanliness.

Gerard Iacovano, CPA8 min read

Your practice is one of your most valuable assets. Treat every stage that way.

Start with a confidential conversation about where your practice stands and what you want it to become.

Dental specialization · Confidential process · Coordinated guidance