Dental lab ROI calculator

See the hours and dollars your lab spends chasing cases, and what changes when every case lives in one place.

Your numbers

Cases your lab handles each month

Share that arrive as digital scans (%)

“Where’s my case?” calls and emails per week

Minutes per status call

Cases that arrive missing something (%)

Minutes to chase each one down

Remake rate (%)

Spear Education cites a US national average of about 4%.

Share of remakes caused by unclear instructions (%)

Your cost per remake, materials and labour ($)

Average hourly cost of staff who handle calls and intake ($)

Status calls: $250
Chasing incomplete Rx: $256
Re-typing and matching files: $582
Remakes avoided: $216

Estimates from your inputs and the assumptions below. Your real numbers depend on how your lab works, and we’ll check them with you on the demo.

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How we calculate this

The working

Status calls and emails: 45 a week × 52 weeks ÷ 12 months × 4 minutes = 780 minutes
Chasing incomplete cases: 400 cases × 20% × 15 minutes = 1,200 minutes
Logging cases: 400 cases × 3.9 minutes a case = 1,560 minutesEach case: 70% digital at 3 minutes and 30% paper or email at 6.
Time back: 780 × 60% + 1,200 × 40% + 1,560 × 70% = 2,040 minutes, or 34.0 hours
Value of that time: 34 hours × $32 = $1,088
Remakes avoided: 400 cases × 4% × 30% × 30% = 1.44 remakes. At $150 each, $216
Each month: $1,088 + $216 = $1,304
Each year: 12 × the monthly figure = $15,648

Dollar figures here are rounded to the dollar. The totals use the unrounded numbers.

Assumptions you can change

Minutes to log a digital case and match its files

Minutes to re-type a paper or emailed Rx

Share of status calls Tusko removes (practices see status on the case)

Share of chasing time Tusko removes (the question sits on the case, with the patient)

Share of logging time Tusko removes (cases arrive structured)

Share of communication-related remakes avoided

Remake rate default: Spear Education, The cost of laboratory remakes. Practice defaults: Dr. Joel Gaudet’s estimates from his own practice. Everything else is a Tusko starting assumption you can change.

Are these numbers a guarantee?

No. They’re estimates from your inputs and the assumptions shown, and you can change every one.

Where do the defaults come from?

The practice defaults come from Dr. Joel Gaudet’s estimates at his own practice. The remake rate comes from Spear Education. The rest are starting assumptions, shown in full.

Why assume Tusko removes most status calls?

Practices see each case’s status on the case itself, so most “where is it?” calls have no reason to happen. If you think the number is lower for you, change it.

See the Floor and a practice’s view of the same case in 20 minutes.

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