Dental No-Show Cost Calculator

Empty chairs are unrecoverable production. Enter your schedule and no-show rate to see the annual cost — and what's recoverable if you reach the ADA's ≤5% target.

Your schedule

Estimated cost of no-shows

  • $104,000 Lost production / year
  • $2,000 Lost production / week
  • 8 Missed appts / week
  • $52,000 Recoverable at ≤5% / yr
At your current rate$104,000/yr
At the ADA ≤5% target$52,000/yr

Get to ≤5% and you recover $52,000 a year.

Why we don't use a canned "$X per no-show." The figure you'll see quoted online traces to a Veterans Health Administration medical study, not dentistry — so this tool uses your average production per appointment instead. More on this in the leading indicators piece.
How it's calculated
  • Missed appts / week = appointments per week × no-show rate.
  • Lost production / week = missed appts × average production per appointment.
  • Lost production / year = weekly loss × 52.
  • Recoverable at ≤5% = annual loss now − annual loss if the rate were 5%.

See your real numbers, not an estimate.

This is a quick estimate from a few inputs. Dasher computes it from your actual marketing and operations data, by channel and location — automatically.

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