
Open Dental 26.1 is now stable! New features include ODTouch 25, custom insurance history categories, HTML billing emails, and much more.

With the new growth of spring on the horizon, it’s time to make sure that your practice is doing all that it can to have a full schedule. In this post, we’ll review the tools in Open Dental that help fill open appointment slots and maximize production.

This post series reviews messages in Open Dental: What they mean, and how to handle them. This post covers Claim and Account warnings.

This post series reviews messages in Open Dental: What they mean, and how to handle them. This post covers Popups and other patient warnings.

This post series reviews messages in Open Dental: What they mean, and how to handle them. This post covers Appointment Prompts & Warnings.
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Manual eligibility checks are slow and error-prone. DentalXChange’s Eligibility AI now writes verified benefit data directly into your system, no retyping required.

Cost conversations can be difficult. You and your staff like to provide care and help your patients, and your patients want to get dental care without worrying about bills. But payments and costs are an inevitable part of healthcare. And with rising costs and complicated insurance and payment options, these conversations might be more tense…

What 8,887 patient calls revealed about front desk measurement, and why the group average hides it. Most dental practices track missed calls. It’s the number every phone system reports; it’s easy to explain, and it feels like it measures something important. For a multi-location group, it’s usually the first metric rolled up to the top.…

Incomplete verifications, ignored denials, and aging patient balances add up to significant lost revenue. Here’s where the leaks happen and how to fix them.

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