Small-cell suppression

Small-cell suppression is DDSIntel’s rule of not publishing a share for any county with fewer than 10 practice locations, because a single practice could be identified from it.

The rule applies to every county-level share. In a small county, even a percentage can reveal one owner’s situation. The Dental Transition Index goes further and is published only for regions and states.

Part of the DDSIntel glossary. See how the figures are built in the methodology. Markdown version: /glossary/small-cell-suppression.md.

Other terms

• Dental transition signals
• Dental transition intelligence
• Pre-market dental practices
• Dental exit window
• Dental retirement cohort
• Dental Transition Index (DTI)
• Consented signal
• Observed signal
• Transition readiness
• Active patient
• Add-on acquisition
• Adjusted EBITDA
• Administrative dissolution
• Asset purchase
• Associate buy-in
• Build-out permit
• Buy-side search
• Collections multiple
• Collections vs. production
• Compliance signal
• Consumer report (FCRA)
• Corporate practice of dentistry (CPOD)
• Corporate signal
• Data-as-of date
• De novo practice
• Dental consolidation
• Dental HPSA
• Dental partnership organization (DPO)
• Dental support organization (DSO)
• DPMS
• DSO-affiliated location
• Due diligence
• Earn-out
• EBITDA multiple
• Facilities signal
• Holdback
• Independent practice
• Letter of intent (LOI)
• Lifecycle signal
• Management services agreement (MSA)
• Management services organization (MSO)
• New entity or license
• Non-compete (dental sale)
• NPI (Type 1 / Type 2)
• NPPES
• Observed ownership change
• Off-market practice
• OIG LEIE (exclusion list)
• Overhead ratio
• Payer mix
• Platform acquisition
• Practice goodwill
• Practice location
• Practice transition
• Practice valuation
• Practices per 10,000 residents
• Professionally active dentist
• Provider density
• Quality of earnings (QoE)
• Recapitalization
• Region
• Registered agent
• Regulatory signal
• Roll-up
• Rollover equity
• Saturday access
• SBA 7(a) practice loan
• Second-source confirmation
• Sell-side process
• Signal horizon
• State annual report
• Stock purchase
• Succession plan
• Walkaway sale
• Work-back (transition period)
• Working capital peg