A working desk of calculators for the business of dentistry — overhead, valuations, PPO economics, and the buy-versus-build math that decides how much of every dollar you actually keep.
Fifteen years of net worth compared across staying salaried, buying an established practice, or starting one from scratch.
Open calculator →Weigh patient attrition against the fee uplift to find the real net-revenue swing of dropping a plan.
Open calculator →Rank procedures by what they truly earn once chair time and lab cost are stripped out of the fee.
Open calculator →Benchmark every overhead category against industry targets and see exactly where the margin is leaking.
Open calculator →One pile of cash, three uses. See the opportunity cost of attacking student debt versus buying in.
Open calculator →Sanity-check an asking price — collections multiple against profit multiple — before you fall for a listing.
Open calculator →The fork every new dentist agonizes over. Plug in your numbers and watch 15 years of wealth play out across all three paths — salaried associate, buying an established practice, or starting one from scratch.
Dropping a plan trades guaranteed write-offs for the risk of losing patients. Plug in the numbers and see exactly how many you can afford to lose before it stops being worth it.
Before you fall in love with a listing, sanity-check the asking price against the two ways dental practices actually get valued — a percentage of collections and a multiple of profit.
Every procedure ties up an operatory. This ranks them by what they really earn per hour of chair time once you strip out lab and supply cost. Edit the fees and times to match your practice.
Set your collections, then dial each cost category to what you actually spend. See instantly which line items run over the benchmarks — and what it's doing to your margin.
You've got loans and some spare cash each year. Crush the debt, invest in the market, or pour it into a practice? Here's how the three play out over 15 years.
