Data from 15,000 Stores: Six Findings on Scaled Operations of Dental Service Organization (DSO)

Does a Dental Service Organization (DSO) with more locations have a lower ratio of Consumables spending to collections? The inaugural "Dental Spending Index" released by Dentira, a U.S. dental procurement and spend management platform, offers a set of reference points for this question.

The report is based on procurement, catalog, budget, and invoice data from 267 DSOs and approximately 15,000 U.S. locations on the Dentira platform, comparing procurement performance across institutions of different sizes. It presents both Consumables spending ratios and operational aspects such as catalogs, budgets, and suppliers.

However, these data reflect only Dentira platform clients and do not represent all U.S. DSOs; the report in principle uses a simple average across DSOs rather than weighting by number of locations. The observation windows for different metrics also vary. Behind the size differences, what other factors are worth noting...

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