Free interactive tool
Dental Practice
Downtime Cost Calculator
How much does a day of IT downtime actually cost your practice? The answer is almost always higher than owners think. Plug in your numbers and see.
Your practice
Typical range: $250-$600 for general dentistry
Include crashes, slow systems, failed logins, outages — everything
What it costs you
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Lost patient revenue
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Staff time paid during downtime
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Patient churn (est. 8% of directly lost)
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Rescheduling & front-desk overhead
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Estimated annual cost of IT downtime
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That's — of your — in annual chair-hour capacity.
How we calculate this:
Lost revenue = downtime hours × chairs × revenue per chair-hour. Staff overtime assumes $35/hour loaded labor cost continues during the outage. Patient churn assumes an 8% dropout rate on patients whose appointments were disrupted (industry average for health services). Rescheduling overhead adds ~$120/hour in front-desk coordination. The total is a conservative estimate — in real ransomware events, we've seen the true cost run 3-5× higher due to forensics, legal, insurance deductibles, and brand damage.