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 almost never checked against reality until something forces the issue. The trouble is that dental consumables are a substantial, relentless cost, and a cost that […]
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 […]