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Dental supply budget benchmarks (cited public sources)

Benchmarks help you set a supply budget. They are not SaveSame results, and they are not a promise that your office will hit them.

ADA practice-management guidance

The American Dental Association’s practice-management page on dental supplies and inventory control states a rule of thumb that inventory costs should be no more than about 5–6% of collections, with office supplies generally not exceeding about 2%, and that any single month’s supply allocation should not exceed about 6% of the prior month’s collections. Source: ADA — Dental Supplies / Inventory Control (fetched for this page on 2026-11-01).

Michigan Dental Association journal guidance (general vs specialty)

An MDA Journal article, “How to Budget Better for Dental Supplies,” describes a target of about 5% to 7% of revenue on clinical supplies for a full-time one-doctor restorative general practice (excluding general office supplies and equipment), and lists higher specialty ranges (for example orthodontics roughly 8–10%, periodontics 11–13%). Source: MDA Journal PDF via ADA Commons (fetched 2026-11-01).

2025 Dental Accounting Group survey (sample of practices)

The 2025 Dental Practice Financial Survey (Dental Accounting Group / Dental Accounting Pros; year-end 2024 figures; 224 practices in the published overview) reports dental supplies as roughly 5.41% to 6.34% of revenue across the published practice-size buckets. Source: 2025 DAG Survey PDF (fetched 2026-11-01). This is a specific surveyed sample — not a national census.

How to use benchmarks with SaveSame

  1. Compute your own clinical supply % of collections for the last 3–6 months.
  2. If you are above your chosen ceiling, audit high-spend MPNs with exact-match price checks.
  3. Do not treat a benchmark gap as “guaranteed SaveSame savings.” SaveSame only reports historical differences on exact matches from your imports.

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