Dental practice lab cost calculator

See what tracking lab cases by phone, email and memory costs your practice each month.

Your numbers

Lab cases you send each month

Share sent as digital scans (%)

Labs you send to

Average hourly cost of your assistants and front desk ($)

What an hour of your chair time is worth ($)

Seat appointments a month where the case wasn’t back or wasn’t right

Chair time lost each time ($)

Joel’s estimate is $500 to $1,000.

Staff time: $256
Your time: $200
Chair time protected: $250

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

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How we calculate this

The working

Staff time on lab admin: 40 cases × 24 minutes a case = 960 minutesEach case: 70% digital at 15 minutes and 30% physical at 25, plus 3 minutes for each of 2 extra labs.
Your time on lab questions: 40 cases × 25% × 6 minutes = 60 minutes
Time back: 960 minutes × 50% + 60 minutes × 50% = 510 minutes, or 8.5 hours
Staff time: 8 hours × $32 = $256
Your time: 0.5 hours × $400 = $200
Chair time protected: 1 appointment × $500 × 50% = $250
Each month: $256 + $200 + $250 = $706
Each year: 12 × the monthly figure = $8,472

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

Assumptions you can change

Staff minutes per digital case on lab admin (Rx paperwork, logging, status checks)

Staff minutes per physical case (adds packing and pickup coordination)

Extra staff minutes per case for each lab beyond the first (another login, inbox, phone number)

Share of cases that trigger a lab question for the dentist

Dentist minutes per question, including looking up the patient

Share of lab admin time Tusko removes

Share of question time Tusko removes (the patient and Rx are already on the case)

Share of not-ready seat appointments avoided (Chair Time flags them days ahead)

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.

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