ROI Calculator
What's your texting actually worth?
The average dental practice loses $4,200/month to cancellations, lapsed recalls, and missed insurance questions. Here's how to figure out yours — and what DDSText recovers.
The losses worth measuring
- Cancellations · same day — $200-$1,800 per unfilled chair, depending on procedure
- No-shows — average $185 of lost production, plus 30 min of staff time
- Lapsed recalls — $385 average annual recall value · 12-mo lapses run $300/patient
- Unanswered insurance questions — 47% of unreplied "do you take my plan" texts never book
- Front-desk time — average 14 hours/week typing the same texts
A 4-op practice example
1,800 active patients · 4 doctors · 14 staff:
- 3 no-shows/week × $185 = $28,860/yr lost
- 2 same-day fills/week × $400 recovered = $41,600/yr saved with DDSAi
- 120 lapsed recalls reactivated × $385 = $46,200/yr
- 11 hrs/week of staff time × $22/hr = $12,584/yr labor saved
Conservative annual ROI: ~$129K vs. ~$1,200 DDSText annual cost. 107× return.
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