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celiawil
Member Since: 04/23/19
Post: 38 of 71

Add up your monthly costs and divide it by the number of hours worked that month. That
will give you cost per hour. Then try to schedule more production that hour than cost. I have not
calculated individual procedures, just the hour. For me, it changes very little month to month. I
have been doing this for five years and it works well for me. ■
1/24/2020

ToothNinja99
Member Since: 01/07/10
Post: 45 of 71

PPO dentist here. When I read threads like this, it's like I'm living on another planet. We
take PPOs and Medicaid because that's the only way we can get patients through the door. And
we net significantly above the average practice owner. If there was a way to work one-third less
and make more, of course we would do it.
There are unfortunately not enough people willing to pay full price for dentistry than there
are dentists. We are super-saturated. We take insurance to survive. My hats off to you for the
people in areas who can support fee-for-service. Or even being out-of-network.
But, yes, the fees posted by Hawkeye are insane and I would not work for that. We do $130
two surface comps, and $140 surgical extractions, $550 crowns here. It's definitely doable with
volume-in fact, if you have the proper volume, it's relaxed and easy. The key is getting the
volume, which is becoming harder and harder as dentists keep opening up on the same street
within rock-throwing distance.
If going out-of-network was that much of a no-brainer, everyone would do it and we wouldn't
have all these insurance issues. ■
1/24/2020

hawkeye2010
Member Since: 05/10/10
Post: 46 of 71

The message I would like to get across to a new dentist is: Don't put yourself in a
low-reimbursement situation. You may not be able to live exactly where you want, but you could
own a second home there and fly or drive there often, with ample vacation time, if you can find
an environment with better reimbursement. The strategies put in place to make PPOs profitable
can also be put in place in high-reimbursement practices to really knock it out of the park.
Strive to make more and work less, not the other way around. YOLO. The difference in
outcomes are dramatic when you think about a 30-year career. ■
1/24/2020

brenta
Member Since: 01/26/16
Post: 53 of 71

Who would take the time to calculate how much four cotton rolls, two sectional matrix
bands, two air/water syringes, 30 minutes' worth of air conditioning, vacuuming the floors,
etc., costs? On top of that, timing your assistant with a stopwatch to see how long it takes to do
instruments and set up a room? Dentistry in not an assembly line. Not all procedures take the
same time on every patient. Not all procedures take the same supplies on every patient. ■
1/27/2020

Sammo
Member Since: 07/31/08
Post: 55 of 71

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Any good business will have metrics and systems in place to monitor all this. Maybe not
that much detail to know the cost of each cotton roll, but what is your cost of disposables for a
composite, and what your fi xed cost is for the procedure? A dollar or two for disposables isn't
a lot for one procedure, but if you're doing 20 composites a day with $15 in disposables and
you figure out a way to bring that down to $10, you just put a nice crisp Ben in your pocket
every day.
No, not every procedure will take the same amount of time and supplies, but you should be
able to average it pretty close. You should know how much every chair needs to produce to keep
the lights on (fi xed costs like rent, payroll, utilities, etc.), and also how much disposables each
procedure uses (variable costs, impression materials, disposables, lab fees, etc.).

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