Category: Miscellaneous
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Planning Coverage for Summer Vacation
Read more: Planning Coverage for Summer VacationHiring temp staff this summer? Here’s how to set up users, train new employees, and keep your Open Dental data secure while your team is out.
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Technical Jargon for your Not-So-Technical Team Members
Read more: Technical Jargon for your Not-So-Technical Team MembersServer, database, eConnector, IP address—here’s what Open Dental technicians mean when they use technical terms, in plain language.
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Manual vs Digital Dental Charting: Everything You Need to Know
Read more: Manual vs Digital Dental Charting: Everything You Need to KnowManual charting is costing your practice more than you think, in time, accuracy, and staffing. Here’s how digital charting stacks up.
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Welcoming Dental School Graduates
Read more: Welcoming Dental School GraduatesJust graduated and joining a practice that uses Open Dental? We’ve got webinars, step-by-step guides, and one-on-one training to help you hit the ground running.
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Supporting Multi-Lingual Patients
Read more: Supporting Multi-Lingual PatientsLanguage barriers shouldn’t get in the way of great dental care. Open Dental has built-in tools to help you communicate with patients in their preferred language.
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Why Dental Payers Are Rethinking Network Connectivity
Read more: Why Dental Payers Are Rethinking Network ConnectivityManaging 50+ individual connections is costing dental payers more than they realize. Here’s how a single gateway changes the equation.
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Best Practices for Featuring Financing in Dental Treatment Plans
Read more: Best Practices for Featuring Financing in Dental Treatment PlansMany 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.
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Hidden Gems: Lesser-Known Open Dental Features Worth Using
Read more: Hidden Gems: Lesser-Known Open Dental Features Worth UsingFrom the Graph view to the Contacts List, these underused Open Dental features might just make your workday a little easier.
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Standardizing Workflows Across Multi-Location Open Dental Practices
Read more: Standardizing Workflows Across Multi-Location Open Dental PracticesIn 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.
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How Often Should Healthcare Providers Test Backup Restore?
Read more: How Often Should Healthcare Providers Test Backup Restore?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.
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