Dental overhead calculator
See your practice's overhead as a share of collections, built from your own expense categories, and each category's share.
Your numbers
Use the same period for every number below.
Money actually received from patients and insurers, not production billed.
Team wages, benefits and payroll taxes. Decide whether to include dentists' pay (yours or associates') and keep it the same each time you compare.
Rent or mortgage interest, utilities, property costs.
Clinical and office supplies.
Dental lab bills.
Everything else you count as overhead, for example marketing, software, insurance, equipment leases, fees.
Your estimate
Fill in all fields to see your estimate.
You will see:
- Your overhead as a share of collections
- Total overhead and what is left, per period, month and year
- Each expense category's share
Assumptions
- Collections and expenses cover the same period.
- "Overhead" is whatever you enter. The calculator doesn't decide what counts, including dentists' pay.
- Monthly and yearly amounts assume the period entered is typical. One month can be far from the yearly picture.
- The ratio is based on collections, not production. A practice that measures overhead against production will get a different number.
- Cash-basis and accrual-basis books can give different totals for the same period.
- Nothing is pre-filled because we found no reliable published figure for these numbers. The example numbers are illustrative, not benchmarks.
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