
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.

Improve your efficiency when working in Open Dental with these quick ways to move around and maximize each keystroke and click.

You are likely only seeing patients for emergency treatment right now. Here are some more ideas for things you can be doing now so you’ll be poised and ready to welcome your patients back.

SOFTWARE UPDATE: Version 19.4 has been released as Stable, implementing 13 features requested by our users. Watch the video and read all the version highlights here.

Teledentistry may not have been part of your patient care before, but it is now an important part of offering diagnostic and follow-up care to your patients. This post provides resources and the setup steps needed in Open Dental to accommodate teledentistry.
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Staff shortages, endless charting, patients who zone out mid-explanation. These are real problems. AI dental software is quietly solving them. Here’s what it does, what it doesn’t, and how to know if it’s right for your practice.

In this post from our partners at CareCredit, learn how to help transform your front-office training with a few easy steps and arm your dental staff with the information they need to confidently discuss dental financing with patients.

In this guest post from Axle, learn how dental analytics has emerged as a game-changing force, offering insights that enable practices to make smarter decisions, enhance patient care, and grow more sustainably. Whether it’s understanding your revenue breakdown or identifying how effective your treatment plans are, leveraging analytics is no longer optional it’s essential.

In today’s dental landscape, practices face increasing pressure to deliver seamless patient experiences while navigating complex insurance systems. Manual checks, payer phone calls, and inconsistent benefit data slow down operations and drive costly denials. That’s where an automated eligibility tool can step in, offering a smarter, automated way to verify patient insurance and benefits with…

In this post from our guest writer at ODEC, learn how the infrastructure decisions that an organization makes early on can determine what is possible as you scale up to add more locations. Read on to learn more.

In this post from our partners at DentalXChange learn how to identify missed revenue opportunities that may be causing your practice to be leaving money on the table.