
Open Dental 25.4 is live and packed with updates. From OCR on eClipboard that auto-fills patient insurance info, to a Clerri integration for in-house membership plans, there’s a lot to explore, including 11 features requested directly by users.

Prepayments are a great way to collect payment before work has been completed, but you may be unsure how to best take a payment or how to allocate the payment once treatment has been completed. We’ll cover best practices in this post.

Software Update: Version 22.1 has been released as Stable with many new features including 15 requested by our users. Learn all about them here.

The Open Dental Support Team has been growing and expanding our knowledge for years. Learn the answers to some of our most common questions.

You have a variety of patients in your practice. In this post we’ll discuss features that will allow you to better manage your more difficult patients, and help them arrive for appointments and pay their bills on time.
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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.

Dentists connected to the ADA Dental Experience and Research Exchange™ (DERE) through Open Dental now have even more ways to gain insights into their practices. With the release of two new DERE reports, including its first financial report, participants can access more easy-to-understand data about their practices’ performance.

COVID-19 has changed many aspects of our work, but the biggest change has been to workplace flexibility. See how this extends to staffing, and how you can capitalize on it.

Intraoral sensors are some of the most widely used and vital pieces of dental technology is your practice. Learn which sensors are recommended (and which to avoid), and some great troubleshooting steps.

Learn what essential information (and imagery) you should make sure to include in your general or specialty practice website.

Learn when you should file a medical insurance claim instead of a dental insurance claim, and when you would file the medical claim as primary and the dental claim as secondary.