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What Is Your Overdue Hygiene List Actually Worth
Put your own overdue patient count, reply rate, and fee schedule into the fields below and see what a single worked pass through the list is worth in production.
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Free Calculators for Small Dental Practices
Two quick tools that put numbers on the two things a small practice argues about most, the value sitting in the overdue hygiene list and the front desk time it takes to chase it.
Most recall decisions in a small dental office get made on instinct. Someone says the list is not worth working, or that calling is more personal, or that the software costs too much, and nobody has the arithmetic in front of them. These two calculators use numbers you already know, your average hygiene visit production, your chair hour cost, how many calls the front desk can really make in a day, and turn them into figures you can put on a staff meeting agenda.
Both run entirely in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Change the defaults to match your own fee schedule and payroll, because production per hygiene visit in a rural practice with one hygienist and a practice in a metro area with two operatories look nothing alike. The point is not the number you get first, it is the number you get after you enter your own.
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How Many Front Desk Hours Is Recall Costing You
Enter your overdue list size and how your front desk works it today, and see the weekly hours and the weeks to clear it by phone versus by texted batches.
Working document
The Overdue Hygiene Recall Reset Checklist
Four stages and twenty steps for taking a neglected hygiene recall list and turning it into seated patients without breaking a rule or annoying a patient.
Why these are free and open
Every calculator here runs in your own browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, nothing is stored, and there is no sign up in front of any of it. Link to them, print them, or keep a tab open next to the work.
They exist because the arithmetic behind dental practices is worth understanding on its own, whether or not you ever become a customer. If a number here changes a decision you were about to make, that is the tool doing its job.
When the spreadsheet stops keeping up
Fill tomorrow's empty hygiene chairs by texting the patients who are already overdue for a cleaning.