Scanner Prices Are Collapsing. Your Equipment Resale Value Just Did Too.

Scanner Prices Are Collapsing. Your Equipment Resale Value Just Did Too.

MEDIT cut prices 22% on the i500. 3Shape dropped the D5 by $6K. Even iTero is bundling software to maintain margins. The intraoral scanner market that charged $15K-25K in 2020 is now saturated at $8K-12K.

This hurts if you financed equipment at 2024 prices. Your residual value is shot. It helps if you're buying now, but not as much as vendor desperation would suggest—because they're all racing to commoditize.

The real play: Lease, don't buy. Let someone else absorb the depreciation hit. Your capital gets better ROI on chairs, lights, or associate equity than on equipment that loses 30% value annually.