
Open Dental 26.2 is live! Updates include advanced blockout searching, new perio chart shortcuts, automated MariaDB backups, and more!

The year isn’t over yet! There are still plenty of dental holidays ahead in 2026 to celebrate your team, your patients, and honestly, just a good excuse to leave early. Here’s your cheat sheet for the rest of the year.

Web Sched offers patients the ability to schedule appointments online, featuring options like New and Existing Patient scheduling, Recall, and ASAP. These services enhance convenience and efficiency.

Learn how Pearl’s Second Opinion can benefit your practice when used within the Open Dental Imaging Module.

Each and every year technology advances and the dental space is no expectation. In this post, we’ll review some of the technological advancements that are being developed or have been introduced to the market for dental practices recently.
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Before and after every appointment, dental teams manage dozens of behind-the-scenes tasks. Here’s how reducing that friction improves both operations and patient care.

Manual eligibility checks are slow and error-prone. DentalXChange’s Eligibility AI now writes verified benefit data directly into your system, no retyping required.

Manual charting is costing your practice more than you think, in time, accuracy, and staffing. Here’s how digital charting stacks up.

Managing membership plans across disconnected systems slows your team down. Here’s how Clerri, a native Open Dental integration, changes the experience for staff and patients.

Managing 50+ individual connections is costing dental payers more than they realize. Here’s how a single gateway changes the equation.