Dental Practice Economics: Chair Utilisation, Hygiene, Collections & Practice Value

What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

• Turn opening days and hours into available chair hours, calculate the utilisation of every chair, of the doctor chairs and the hours lost to no-shows, and colour the weak chairs.
• Calculate production per clinical hour for each provider, the hygienists' production-to-wage multiple, the hygiene share of production and the dentists' combined hourly production.
• Measure how many recall patients were really seen, the six-month recall rate, the patient retention rate and what a reactivation campaign is worth per year.
• Calculate case acceptance in dollars and in plans, the value of accepted but unscheduled treatment and the acceptance rate of each dentist.
• Calculate the write-off per procedure when an in-network plan pays less than the office fee, the discount per procedure and weighted across the mix, and the net collection rate.
• Express every overhead category as a % of collections, total the overhead ratio, calculate the dollars above target and highlight the categories over target with a formula rule.
• Calculate an associate dentist's pay as the greater of a percentage of collections and a daily guarantee, count the months the guarantee pays, and the pay as a % of collections.
• Normalise EBITDA with add-backs, value the practice as a % of average collections and as a multiple of adjusted EBITDA, and compare both methods in a bar chart.