My grandfather sold his dental practice in 2018. He didn't want to. He had built it over decades and it went for a fraction of what it should have, because it depended entirely on him.
Four generations of my family have been in dentistry. I am the one who isn't. I have never prepped a crown and I never will. I build and run companies, five since 2019, and I came back to this because of what happened to his.
That is the point, not a gap in the CV. You do not need another clinician telling you how to do dentistry. You are better at dentistry than I will ever be. What you have never had is someone whose entire job is the half that happens around the chair, sitting inside your business for twelve months and accountable for a number.
Every week I sit down with practice owners on Between Patients and ask what actually happened to their money. Most have never been asked.
You should sell because you chose to, at a number you chose.