Insights
Are You Overpaying for Dental Supplies? Most Practices Can’t Tell
Here is an uncomfortable question for any dental practice: is the price you paid for your last box of gloves a good one? For most practices, the honest answer is
The Dental Supply Budget Nobody Actually Sets
Most dental practices have a budget for supplies in the same way most people have a plan to exercise more: it exists as a vague intention, rarely written down, and
Why Guessing How Much to Reorder Is Costing Your Practice
In a great many dental practices, the question of how much to reorder is answered the same way it has been for decades: someone glances at a shelf, forms an
Dental Supply Ordering Shouldn’t Live in One Person’s Head
In most dental practices, supply ordering has a single point of failure, and she is currently on annual leave. The logins, the preferred brands, the supplier rep’s mobile number, the
How Many Dental Suppliers Is Too Many?
Count them sometime. Most established practices order from far more dental suppliers than anyone intended: the main one, the cheaper one for gloves, the specialist one for endo, the one
Dental Inventory: What an Overstocked Stockroom Really Costs
Every practice has one: the cupboard nobody fully audits, stacked with composite shades nobody uses, gloves in a size nobody wears, and a box of something that expired during a