Price guide · Medical Dental

Power Chain: wholesale price

A typical US business buyer pays a median of $1.50 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.55 at volume, on a typical 30-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.

Median price by order quantity

Order sizeMedian /unit
500–999 units$1.50
1,000–4,999 units$1.30
5,000–9,999 units$1.10
10,000–24,999 units$0.90
25,000–99,999 units$0.70
100,000+ units$0.55

What moves the price

For power chain, the drivers are dispenser compatibility, material, mount style, clear or opaque, handpiece model compatibility, thread type, sterilizable, color — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.

Published US-facing dental wholesale prices for 15 ft spools sit around $7.50-$32.29 depending on brand and chain type, while Chinese trade listings show roughly $1.00-$3.30 per piece at 100-piece MOQ and about $0.88-$2.00 per roll on higher-volume factory listings. The biggest price drivers are chain type (short, long, continuous, closed), brand/spec consistency, spool length, and whether the source is a US distributor versus direct import. Realistic supplier routes are US dental distributors for small-to-mid buys and China factory/marketplace sourcing for 1,000+ unit programs with landed-equivalent pricing.

Also known as: elastic chain, ortho chain, orthodontic chain.

Paying more than the median?

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