Does this send what I enter anywhere?
No. The calculation runs in your browser. Your numbers are kept in the page address after the # symbol, which browsers do not send to servers, so you can bookmark or share the estimate without us receiving it.
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Dental practice downtime cost calculator
Put a number on what being down would cost your practice, using your own figures.
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How the estimate works
- Enter your own numbers. Start with your average daily production and how many working days you expect to be down. Add what you pay staff, what recovery would cost and any overtime. Nothing is pre-filled.
- Lost production. Daily production times days down, less the share you expect to recover later by rescheduling patients.
- Wages and one-time costs. If staff are paid while systems are down, their hourly cost times hours times days. One-time costs (IT recovery and anything else) and overtime to catch up are added once.
- Total and sensitivity. The total is the sum of those lines. The table shows the total at 1, 3, 7 and 14 days: lost production and wages scale with the days, and the one-time costs, overtime and any patient loss stay fixed.
It does not model ransom payments, and it uses no industry averages: every number is yours.
Frequently asked questions
Are the example numbers typical?
No. The example only shows how the calculator works. It is not an industry average, and the form starts empty because your numbers are the only ones that matter.
Does the estimate include a ransom payment?
No. It models the cost of being down and recovering, and nothing else. Whether to pay a ransom is a separate decision that this tool does not model.
Why is patient loss shown separately?
It is the least certain number. If you fill in both optional fields it is added to the total and shown on its own line, so you can see the estimate with and without it.