Pick the kind of clinic. Set its chairs, providers and patients. See what limits it, what that costs, and how much lands on the front desk.
Chairs are only capacity when a provider works them.
Active patients are your demand. Chairs and providers are your supply. The smallest sets the limit.
What the care you deliver brings in, and what the care you cannot deliver leaves behind.
Every visit creates front desk work. Receptionists are your supply of desk time.
| Time assumption | Value |
|---|---|
| Weeks open per year | |
| Dental visits per active patient per year | |
| Dental visits one chair holds per day | |
| Visiting dentist: dental visits per active patient per year | |
| Visiting dentist: visits per day | |
| Denture recall check, chair minutes | |
| Reline, chair minutes per arch | |
| Reline, lab minutes per arch | |
| New denture, chair minutes per arch | |
| New denture, lab minutes per arch | |
| Working minutes per receptionist per day |
| Fee | Private | CDCP |
|---|
Private hygiene fees are the Ontario Dental Hygienists' Association suggested guide for 2026. CDCP fees in a dental office are the 2025 Manitoba grid for general dentists. CDCP fees for an independent hygienist are the 2024 Ontario hygienist grid, because the Manitoba hygienist grid was not retrieved; 2025 hygienist grids rose. Denture fees are the 2025 Manitoba CDCP denturist grid, including the in-house lab fee; no public private fee guide for denturists was found, so the same values are used until you enter your own. A production version should use one province's current grids throughout.
| Front desk task | Counted per | Minutes each | Minutes today |
|---|
Front desk minutes are assumptions until they are replaced with Mint Ops remote administration data. So are the effects of the automation switches: the model assumes online booking removes 40% of booking calls and 30% of rescheduling work, and automated confirmations remove 85% of confirmation time. With recall managed by an outside team, that team makes the recall calls and callbacks and books the visits. The extra visits it books still need confirmations, rescheduling, check-in, check-out and insurance claims at the desk. They are existing patients, so they add no phone enquiry or new-patient time.
The Canadian Dental Hygienists Association states that legislation in all provinces allows dental hygienists to own and operate their own businesses, and to offer space to dentists and denturists (CDHA). Conditions differ. In Ontario, hygienists no longer need College authorization to self-initiate scaling since 22 September 2023 (CDHO). Manitoba requires an extended practice licence to work without a dentist's supervision. British Columbia's older regulation required a dentist to examine the client, except for dental hygiene practitioners; check current rules with BCCOHP.
Ontario's dental college allows a dentist to rent furnished and staffed space from a non-dentist and run a separate practice there. The rent must be a fixed amount, never a percentage of the dentist's fees. The dentist cannot be the owner's employee or partner, keeps separate records, bills patients directly, and cannot practise under the hygiene clinic's name (RCDSO). This tool counts only the fixed rent as the clinic's income.
Hygienists may share space with denturists, and Ontario denture clinics hire hygienists as employees. Chair rental works where the hygienist can practise independently. A contractor paid a share of fees was not confirmed against either college's rules. Check with both colleges before using it.
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