Dentist Vacancy Calculator for DSOs
Estimate the Clinical Production Capacity Behind Open Dentist Seats
Estimate the clinical production capacity associated with open dentist seats using your own assumptions. Refine the estimate for patient demand your team can absorb or recover. This is a planning estimate, not measured lost revenue or profit.
How to Use the Vacancy Estimate
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Enter open dentist capacity in full-time equivalents (FTE). One full-time position is 1 FTE; a half-time position is 0.5.
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Enter the vacancy period in days and a low and high monthly production assumption per dentist FTE.
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Review gross production capacity first. Demand absorption, backfill/growth mix, and coverage are optional refinements. Leave unknown values blank.
The result is a directional planning estimate, not a revenue forecast or guaranteed financial outcome.
How to Interpret Your Dentist Vacancy Estimate
Gross production capacity estimates the production an open dentist seat could support during the modeled period. Unabsorbed exposure adjusts that capacity for demand your organization cannot redistribute, delay, or recover. If the demand share is unknown, use the gross result only.
How the estimate is calculated:
Gross capacity = open dentist FTE × (vacancy days ÷ 30) × monthly production per FTE.
Adjusted exposure = gross capacity × the share of demand remaining unabsorbed.
Use the full period you want to model. The calculation uses a 30-day planning month. Avoid deducting the same demand recovery twice.
Illustrative sensitivity example:
One open dentist FTE for 90 days, using a 30-day planning month and an illustrative $80,000–$120,000 monthly production range, yields $240,000–$360,000 of gross capacity. Replace these assumptions with your own.
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30% of demand unabsorbed: $72,000–$108,000 of modeled exposure.
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50% of demand unabsorbed: $120,000–$180,000 of modeled exposure.
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70% of demand unabsorbed: $168,000–$252,000 of modeled exposure.
These scenarios illustrate assumptions, not client results, industry benchmarks, or service-selection thresholds.
Use the estimate alongside vacancy age, hiring urgency, qualified candidate coverage, internal recruiting capacity, and the role, market, and timing. A large modeled amount alone does not determine the right recruiting service.
Temporary-coverage expense is a separate cash cost. Neither capacity nor adjusted exposure is measured lost revenue, collections, profit, EBITDA, or guaranteed recoverable production. Check specialty, schedule, payer mix, patient demand, and practice capacity before applying the estimate to a specialist role.