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What Does a New Dental Operatory Cost Your Retirement? The Math Nobody Prints
Sep 29, 2026
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Every dollar you put into a chair stops working somewhere else.
Here's the short answer. If you pay cash for a $22,700 operatory and it never sees a patient, you've given up about $88,000 of retirement wealth, assuming that money would have earned 7% for 20 years before taxes. That's the worst case...