Dental Bookkeeping Resources
Guides and templates for dental practice overhead percentages, chart of accounts, and calculating overhead from your Profit & Loss. These are the same methods and averages we use for the practices we do bookkeeping for.
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How to Calculate Dental Office Overhead
The three steps to calculate total overhead from a Profit & Loss: exclude owner and associate pay, total the rest, and divide by collections.
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Dental Chart of Accounts for Overhead Benchmarking
The account list that makes overhead percentages comparable: payroll split by department, owner and associate pay kept separate, and the same rules for every practice.
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Dental Overhead Percentages Template
Drop your Profit & Loss into the spreadsheet to calculate your category percentages and compare them to the 2026 averages.
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Dental Practice Overhead Percentages (2026)
Current averages from 100+ general practices we do bookkeeping for: 62.2% of collected revenue, owner and associate pay excluded, with the category breakdown.
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What Does a Dental CPA Cost?
A dental CPA costs 1% to 2% of collections as of 2026. The high end includes bookkeeping. Tax preparation and planning are the parts worth the fee.
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What Does Dental Bookkeeping Cost?
Monthly QuickBooks Online bookkeeping for dental practices, from $500 to $1,300, depending on collections. What is included and how it compares to a dental CPA.
Created by Sona Wegner
All guides and templates on this page were created by Sona Wegner, the owner of Percentology. She has an accounting degree and an MBA, started at a dental CPA firm in 2007, and has done dental practice bookkeeping since starting Percentology in 2013. About Percentology.