Add a hygienist or a chair

Would another hygienist or chair pay for itself?

Your own numbers for the visit, the pay and the set-up cost. The answer is the payback in months and how full the schedule has to get to break even.

Please read. Educational software, not tax, accounting, legal, lending or investment advice. Your CPA reviews and owns your books and signs your returns. Arithmetic on your assumptions, not a forecast.

The sample is Maple Street Dental, an invented practice. Or drop your own month-end report below.

Drop your files. No typing.

Month-end report from your practice software · CSV or PDF · fills your production per visit and collection rate · or type the numbers below

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Your 10-second answer · add a hygienist

Pays back in 10 months, adding $83,107 a yearIt has to be about 39% full to break even. You assumed 70%.

Arithmetic on the assumptions below, which are starting values until you type your own. Not a forecast, and not advice on hiring or spending.

Net a year

$83,107

$6,926 a month

Pays back in

10 mo

on $35,000 to set up

Break-even fill

39%

of the schedule

First year

$51,594

4-month slow start

The numbers behind it

Collected from the new visits	$205,565
Hygienist pay and burden	-$98,771
Supplies	-$16,486
Other monthly costs, a year	-$7,200
Net a year	$83,107

Your assumptions

Starting values, not benchmarks. Type your own.

Hours a weekWeeks a yearPatients per hourHow full the schedule gets%Hygiene production per visit$Treatment the doctor does because of each visit$Exams, fillings and crowns that start in hygiene.Share of production you collect%Pay per hour$Taxes and benefits on top of pay%Supplies per visit$Other costs a month$One-time cost to set up$Equipment, build-out, hiring and training.Months for the schedule to fillUntil then it runs below the fill above, and pay does not wait.

Pay is counted for every scheduled hour, full chair or not, because that is how it works. A real schedule fills slowly at first; try a lower fill and see what changes. This is arithmetic on your assumptions, not a forecast, and it does not tell you whether to hire or buy.

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