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

Open Dental’s latest stable version 24.1 has been released as stable! Join us as we highlight the features in this version.

The Clinics feature in Open Dental allows you to manage your entire multi-clinic dental organization while allowing customization for each practice. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the feature and if it’s right for you.

With more on your plate than ever before, we’re here with five types of tools you can start using today to boost efficiency and productivity.

Your Dental Practice Management Software decision will affect your practice and your patients in both the short- and long-term. Find the right fit with the tips in this post.
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Many patients skip recommended dental care because of cost, not because they don’t want it. Offering flexible financing and training your team to talk about it clearly can make a real difference in treatment acceptance and patient trust.

Dental marketing ROI isn’t just about how much you spent vs. how much you made. Leads, scheduling rates, treatment acceptance, and lifetime patient value all play a role. Here’s how to connect the dots.

In multi-location dental practices, small inconsistencies in communication and scheduling add up fast. Here’s how DSOs can build standardized workflows that improve patient experience, reduce admin burden, and scale without friction.

Healthcare providers are advised to conduct monthly backup restore tests, with quarterly full-system validations and annual disaster simulations recommended for high-risk organizations. Backup monitoring alone does not ensure recoverability; restore testing is essential to confirm that clinical systems and patient data can be operationally restored within acceptable downtime.

EPCS certification isn’t just a regulatory checkbox. It’s what makes electronic prescribing of controlled substances actually safe, reducing fraud, cutting errors, and keeping providers on the right side of DEA requirements.