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

Open Dental is backed by a team of experts from all walks of life. In this post, we interview Brittany, a Software Engineer.

Managing a dental patient’s account can get complicated. In this post, we’ll discuss some features to help with more complex patient accounts.

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.
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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.

Recent changes in Texas may affect how your practice stores its data. Read this post from our friends at Central Data Storage to learn how you may be affected and how you can stay compliant.

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.