Per day and per visit tell different stories
Production per day is the number everyone quotes. It mixes two things: how many people you saw and how much dentistry each one got. Production per visit pulls them apart. If per day goes up but per visit goes down, the schedule got busier, not more productive. If per visit climbs while visits stay flat, you are doing more per chair, usually because case acceptance or procedure mix improved.
Read them together. A thin day with high per-visit production is a scheduling problem. A packed day with low per-visit production is a treatment-planning one.
Your mix, by category and by code
Group your procedures into categories (restorative, crowns and bridges, endo, oral surgery, implants, prosthodontics, perio, diagnostic) and look at each one's share of the month. Most associates are surprised. Restorative often carries far more of the year than people think, and a handful of high-fee procedures can quietly outweigh dozens of small ones.
Then go one level down, to every code: how many times, the total, the average fee. That table answers questions like "is my average crown fee what I think it is" and "how many of my extractions are surgical".
Weekdays, best days and slow days
Average production by weekday is one of the most useful things you can know and one of the least looked at. If Tuesdays average several hundred dollars less than Thursdays every month, that is not luck. It is how the schedule is built, who books it, or which procedures land on which day. It is also a specific, polite conversation to have with the office manager, with a number in it.
Your best and slowest days, your busiest day and your largest single visit are worth a glance too. They show what a good day looks like for you, which is a better target than any benchmark.
Month to month, not just this month
One month is noise: a holiday, a cancelled block, a big case. Look at three, six and twelve months together. A trend that holds for a quarter is real. And look at production next to collections over the same months, because the money for a month of work arrives over the following weeks; a light check after a heavy month is usually timing, not a problem.
Lab-bearing work
Track how much of your production carries a lab fee. Lab-heavy months look great on production and less great on pay, especially if lab comes out before your percentage. Knowing the share ahead of time means a smaller check is never a surprise.
How cuspd shows it
cuspd's Overview builds all of this from your Log for any range: this month, the last three or six, the year, or all time. Production, days, visits, per day and per visit, every category and every code, and the small stuff like your strongest and weakest weekday. One practice or all of them together. Click through it in the demo.