Curve Dental vs. Open Dental Software

It is fantastic for any office that has more that one location. It takes away the lagging server problem and allows you to see schedules in all locations individually or together. You have the capability of running everything as one office but also separating them internally. Patients love the flexibility of moving between offices seamlessly. No more forwarding over records to one of your other locations.

Incentivized

Open Dental [Software] is well suited to a practice that is willing to put time into customizing it to their needs. Since it is open-source software, it's not completely ready to use right out of the box, but comes with flexibility that other dental software lack. As such, you can make it work for whatever you need for your individual practice. If you're not super tech-savvy, they have a team that will help you with these customizations at a reasonable cost.

• Flexibility to use from anywhere, anytime.
• Ease of use-simple and easy to use.
• They listen to customers suggestions for improvement and implement them if possible.

Incentivized

• User Interface is simple to learn
• Integrates well with all imaging programs
• Support techs are amazing, and remember your name when you call
• It's cheaper than almost all alternatives, but the value is higher
• Lots of plug-ins are available
• Awesome user community of dentists that love to talk about how they've incorporated plug-ins and other features
• Lots of reports to choose from, or you can make your own

• I really don't have anything that I don't like. they are always making improvements.

Incentivized

• Open Dental [Software] has issues when users try to open more than one window at a time.
• There is no way to copy/paste provider schedules, so you have to schedule each day individually.

Our practice functions well using Open Dental [Software] and it's a very affordable option. So long as the customer service remains excellent and the price stays competitive, we have no reason to go through the hassle of changing software.

Open Dental [Software] works great....until you try to open multiple windows. This is the one feature that needs serious improvement with the product. I've had to force quit/terminate the software more times than I can count because it froze when I tried to open up a second window to complete a task. Other than this one issue, it's a very usable product.

They always go the extra mile in helping to fix or correct any issue we are having.

Incentivized

Open Dental's customer support team has gone above and beyond for us. There was a 2-3 month period where we couldn't go more than 5 minutes without the software crashing - which was an issue with our server and not with their product. Despite it being our issue, the customer service team remained in constant contact with us and with our IT support company until the issue was resolved.

We evaluated Carestack software but found it far too complicated and too many steps to do. It was lacking the ease of use that Curve Hero has. We were looking for something that was user-friendly and easy to understand Curve Hero had all of that.

Incentivized

Open Dental is faster than the alternatives, and the support is much better with very low hold times. It's more customizable with lots of plug-ins available, although they aren't really needed. A strong user community group is available as well, where you can see different use cases and read up on experiences of other users of the software.

• The new Playbook Dashboards enable you to keep a pulse on your practice. They are a great way to see where you are financially at all times.
• It gave our administrative staff, office manager flexibility to work anytime from anywhere.
• Allows our dr and emergency on-call personnel to access patients records at all times in the case of after hours emergency.

Incentivized

• The cost of Open Dental is minimal, so ROI is huge.