NexHealth vs. Open Dental Software

Dental offices needing to scale down the many services they use would be a perfect fit. I think any medical facility would use Nexhealth and love it! A situation where a doctor is looking to expand their online presence is also a great opportunity for Nexhealth. We have gotten 100s of new Google reviews, but the great thing is they are all 5 star. We used Swell and granted, Swell gets a higher review count, but Nexhealth is pretty good!

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.

• All-in- one platform
• Great customer support
• Very skilled and knowledgeable team
• Gets high reviews for Google

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

• Our forms have had trouble syncing with Dentrix
• There is customization we would like to be able to do inside new patient forms that we cannot do
• Syncing issues with paperwork into Dentrix

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.

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.

Nexhealth is superior because it is more advanced in customization than all of the above. We have had a few issues with syncing and I don't want practices to overlook this. The program is not 100% foolproof.

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.

• Reduced our cost per month for multiple programs
• Gotten us more Google reviews
• Saved us time sending automatic messages to patients

Incentivized

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