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The dental specialties spending the most on supplies
- Source
- Becker's Dental + DSO Review
- Author
- Ariana Portalatin
- Originally at
- beckersdental.com(opens in a new tab)
Summary and scoring by The Bell Brief (Dr. Jennifer Bell) using the Drill-Down Protocol. Not the original publisher.
Why it matters for dental
DSO-affiliated oral surgery and periodontic offices spent the most on supplies over the last 24 months, giving practice owners and DSO procurement teams a new benchmark for specialty spend.
Key points
- 01
Dentira’s Dental Spend Index ranks oral surgery and periodontics as the top two specialties for average monthly supply spend per office.
- 02
Dentira built the index from procurement data across 267 U.S. DSOs and published the first edition on.
- 03
Strategic oral surgery offices averaged $9,050 monthly, while mid-market oral surgery offices averaged $9,845.
- 04
General dentistry offices averaged $5,982–$6,359 monthly, lower than both oral surgery and periodontics across all DSO segments.
Who should care
- Owner
- DSO
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