--- title: "Dental Marketing ROI Calculator | Top Dentistry" url: https://topdentistry.co/au/tools/roi-calculator description: "Model dental marketing ROI from your own numbers — patients per month, patient value, and missed calls. See return clearly. Try the free ROI calculator today." lang: en-AU --- US: https://topdentistry.co/us/tools/roi-calculator UK: https://topdentistry.co/uk/tools/roi-calculator AU: https://topdentistry.co/au/tools/roi-calculator Tools: https://topdentistry.co/au/tools Insights: https://topdentistry.co/au/insights Sign in: https://topdentistry.co/auth/sign-in Top Dentistry: https://topdentistry.co/au Services: https://topdentistry.co/au/services SEO & GEO: https://topdentistry.co/au/services/dental-seo-geo Paid Ads: https://topdentistry.co/au/services/google-ads-management Results: https://topdentistry.co/au/results Pricing: https://topdentistry.co/au/pricing Claim listing: https://topdentistry.co/au/find-a-dentist#claim Book a demo: https://topdentistry.co/au/audit Growth for practices: https://topdentistry.co/au Find a Dentist free for patients: https://topdentistry.co/au/find-a-dentist Operations OS run your practice: https://topdentistry.co/au/platform Services: https://topdentistry.co/au/services SEO & GEO: https://topdentistry.co/au/services/dental-seo-geo Paid Ads: https://topdentistry.co/au/services/google-ads-management Results: https://topdentistry.co/au/results Pricing: https://topdentistry.co/au/pricing Tools: https://topdentistry.co/au/tools Insights: https://topdentistry.co/au/insights Sign in: https://topdentistry.co/auth/sign-in Free tool # What is your marketing spend _actually_ returning? Put in your own numbers, new patients a month, what each is worth, and the share of calls going unanswered, and see the revenue on the table. What is a full schedule worth to you? These starting values are editable assumptions, not benchmarks. Use your own numbers. Revenue on the table each month $3,000 from missed calls alone, at 10 patients × $1,200 each Get your free practice audit (https://topdentistry.co/au/audit?patients=10&value=1200&missedPct=25) ## Judge marketing on booked patients, not clicks The most common reason a practice owner cannot tell whether marketing is working is that the reporting measures the wrong thing. Impressions, clicks, and keyword rankings all move without a single extra patient sitting in the chair. The number that matters is cost per booked new patient, measured against what a new patient is worth to you over the years they stay. That second figure is why dental marketing can carry a healthy return even at a real monthly spend: a new patient is rarely a one-visit transaction. Recall appointments, hygiene, and treatment accepted over time mean the lifetime figure is usually a multiple of the first visit — which is the whole basis for deciding what you can profitably spend to acquire one. The model above also asks what share of your new-patient calls go unanswered, because that is where most practices lose the most money for the least reason. You have already paid to make the phone ring. Capturing those calls is almost always cheaper than buying more demand. One caveat worth stating plainly: this is a planning model, not a forecast. It runs on the assumptions you enter. Treat the output as a way to size the opportunity and pressure-test a budget — then verify it against your real numbers. Questions ## Frequently asked questions Multiply the new patients you win each month by the value of a new patient to get monthly revenue generated, then compare that against what you spend to generate it. The honest version also accounts for leakage — demand you paid to create but never converted, most commonly unanswered phone calls. Practices commonly plan around roughly 3–7% of revenue going to marketing, and judge the result on cost per booked new patient rather than clicks or impressions. Because a new patient's value compounds over years of recall visits and treatment, even a modest number of additional patients per month can cover a meaningful retainer. Because it is usually the largest and cheapest-to-fix gap. Marketing makes the phone ring; if a share of those calls goes unanswered after hours or while the front desk is busy, you have already paid to create demand that walks to a competitor. Recovering it costs far less than generating new demand. No. This is a planning model built entirely from the figures you enter, using your own assumptions about patient value and conversion. It is designed to size the opportunity and frame a conversation — not to promise a result. 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