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The most expensive chair in your office is the one you never bought.
You came for a number, so let's start there. Using the ADA Health Policy Institute's own figures, the average general dentist generates roughly $698,000 a year in revenue. Spread that across the two to three operatories a dentist c...
Most dentists negotiate harder on a used car than on the equipment that runs their practice for the next ten years.
Let's answer the question first. At 2026 manufacturers' suggested retail, the core equipment for one operatory (chair, upholstery, delivery unit, assistant's instrumentation, and LED l...
Every practice I've ever walked has a room that's losing money by sitting there quietly.
Here's the short version. Finance a mid-tier operatory package over five years at today's rates and the payment runs somewhere between about $455 and $1,000 a month, depending on the brand and tier. With roughly...
The scan fee is the smallest check a CBCT will ever write you.
So, is CBCT worth it for a general dentist? A unit runs roughly $80,000 to $200,000 installed, and financing an $80,000 unit over seven years comes to about $1,256 a month. At the ADA's reported median fee of $275 for a limited-field sca...
The same software reading your X-rays chairside may be reading them again at the insurance company.
Straight answer first. Chairside dental AI (Overjet, Pearl, VideaHealth and a growing list of others) typically runs about $250 to $500 a month per location for a standard practice, based on published...
The cheapest machine in this article will probably pay for itself before the most expensive one gets unboxed.
If you're short on time: an intraoral scanner runs roughly $20,000 to $37,500 and is the entry ticket for everything else digital. A dental 3D printer costs $3,500 to $12,000 as a complete s...
Most dental offices are designed in the wrong order, and the floor plan locks the mistake in for fifteen years.
Here's the whole series in a paragraph. Decide what the office needs to produce first: which procedures you'll keep in-house, and which technology that takes. Then set room count from real...