Dental Software Overview

What is Dental Software?

Dental Software provides the needed administrative and clinical operational support specific to dental practices. It is similar to other medical office management suites, offering elements such as patient management electronic dental health records and clinical management. Dental software can be cloud based or locally installed, but most vendors are moving towards cloud based solutions.

Dental software helps manage the day to day operations any dental office encounters. Scheduling, insurance confirmation and patient management tools help front desk operations. Dental teams are assisted by electronic charting, dental health records and patient notes. Reporting, accounting, claims management and billing tools support back office functions.

The ubiquitousness of dental software has led to the growth of other dental software support modules. These fully integrate with, or may even be included with, the most popular practice management platforms, including:

Dental practice specific-scheduling and appointment reminder software
Marketing modules specific to dental practices
X-Rays, digital imaging, and 3D dental imaging software
Financial management and profitability coaching

Ensure the software you choose, along with any associated modules, are HIPAA compliant.

Dental Software Features and Capabilities

Most dental practice management platforms include these features:

Appointment scheduling
Patient charting, including perio charting and digital imaging
Patient notes and treatment plans
Electronic prescriptions
Insurance management
Claims management
Billings and collections management
Online payment processing capabilities
Analytics and reporting
Document scanning and storage
Data backup

Some vendors may offer some nice to have features, such as:

Patient relationship or communications manager
Online patient portal
Appointment reminders
Patient feedback and reviews
Multi-location support
Accounting software
Training and support

Pricing Information

On-premise software usually follows a license/maintenance pricing model. Most cloud based dental practice management software is billed on a month to month subscription basis, starting at around $200 per month for solo practitioners. Large dental practices can expect to pay based on the number of providers and locations. This can easily run in the thousands per month. Training and support may incur an additional fee.

Solutionreach

19 Ratings

Solutionreach is patient relationship management and appointment system dentists office, with reputation management, marketing features, and a patient portal. Solutionreach is headquartered in Lehi, Utah.

Dentrix

7 Ratings

Dentrix is a long extant dental practice management software supported by Henry Schein, one of the oldest companies in medical supplies, devices and software. Dentrix includes ePrescribe, and eBilling, staff training and revenue management, and business intelligence support. Given the dominant posit…

CS PracticeWorks Software

2 Ratings

Carestream Dental offers CS PracticeWorks Software, a scheduling and payment management platform for dentist offices.

Open Dental Software

1 Ratings

Open Dental Software in Portland offers digital charting and eprescribing, and document management, for dentists.

Curve Hero

1 Ratings

Curve Dental, headquartered in Orem, Utah, offers Curve Hero, practice management software for dentists featuring a wide range of features like scheduling, patient communication, billing and payment process, electronic dental record management, and more.

EagleSoft

4 Ratings

EagleSoft is a dental practice management software from the established Patterson Dental, featuring front desk administrative features (e.g. scheduling), billing, document management, and imaging, among other features.