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Dental Practice Overhead & Profitability Calculator

Compare collections with operating costs and modeled owner compensation. Explore a scenario before you make a change.

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Your practice, in numbers

Use collections received. Keep owner pay separate from payroll.

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Collections ($)

Operating costs, excluding owner pay

Staff compensation + employer burden ($)

Associate compensation ($)

Occupancy ($)

Supplies ($)

Lab ($)

Software / IT ($)

Marketing ($)

Insurance ($)

Professional services ($)

Repairs ($)

Other operating costs ($)

Owner compensation & planning

Owner clinical compensation ($)

Owner administrative compensation ($)

Planning target margin (%)

Scenario collections change (%)

Scenario operating cost change (%)

Exclude distributions, taxes, depreciation, debt principal, and capital purchases. Owner compensation is modeled separately. Financing interest is outside this operating view.

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How to read your result

Overhead is operating costs divided by collections. Cash operating surplus subtracts these costs; the after-owner view also subtracts modeled clinical and administrative compensation. Taxes, depreciation, capital purchases, distributions, and debt principal are excluded. Target-margin collections assume unchanged costs.

Common questions

Collections or production?

Use collections received in the selected period, rather than billed production.

Where does owner pay go?

Enter modeled owner compensation separately. Do not include it again in staff compensation.

Is this net income?

This is a simplified cash operating view, not audited net income or EBITDA.

Methodology & sources

Calculation and content version 1.0.0. Sources checked 2026-10-05. Input assumptions are shown in your result; estimates and checklists have the limits described above.

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