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 knowledge that the cheap gloves tear and the expensive ones do not: it all lives in one experienced head, and the practice only discovers how […]
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 a former nurse preferred, and the one with that single item nobody else stocks. Each made sense when it was added. Together they have quietly […]
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 previous government. Dental inventory management rarely makes anyone’s list of favourite jobs, which is exactly how stockrooms drift into quiet, expensive chaos. The money is […]