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

Dental care is often postponed for financial reasons. Tax (and refund) season is here – learn the tools in Open Dental to help you quickly reach out to patients and get them scheduled for the care they need.

Open Dental is backed by a team of experts from all walks of life. In this post we interview Amber, who is a Conversions Supervisor.

Did your office recently convert to Open Dental? Will you be switching to Open Dental soon? Maybe you’ve been a user for years but want to learn more. This post is for you! Learn all the benefits of being a part of the Open Dental Community.

Take a fresh look at things in your practice management software that may be outdated and need updating. Here are the do’s and don’ts of Open Dental setup and cleanup to prevent unintended consequences like changes to historical data.
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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.

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.

Managing membership plans across disconnected systems slows your team down. Here’s how Clerri, a native Open Dental integration, changes the experience for staff and patients.

Managing 50+ individual connections is costing dental payers more than they realize. Here’s how a single gateway changes the equation.

Many 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.