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Dental Patient Lifetime Value Calculator
Estimate dental patient lifetime value using average visit value, retention, recall frequency, and referral contribution assumptions.
Customer Lifetime Value
This landing page is paired with MBACalc's existing Customer Lifetime Value so you can go from concept to live calculation immediately.
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A dental patient is not worth one hygiene visit or one emergency exam. Patient value compounds through recall, restorative treatment, specialty referrals, family additions, and long retention. This page helps you estimate what a healthy patient relationship is really worth so your marketing, retention, and front-office decisions become more rational.
Use the calculator to pressure-test what you can afford to spend on acquisition, reactivation, and nurture. If you underestimate patient lifetime value, you will often underinvest in growth. If you overestimate it, you can burn cash on channels that never pay back.
Worked example
If the average active patient generates about $850 per year, stays 7 years, and creates a modest referral lift, total patient value can exceed $6,000. That dramatically changes how you judge SEO, mailers, and internal reactivation spend.
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Key takeaways
- Patient LTV is the anchor for sane dental marketing decisions.
- Retention and referral behavior matter as much as first-visit revenue.
- Use LTV together with CAC and case acceptance to judge channel quality.
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