Open Dental Software Reviews & Insights

Open Dental is being used as our primary office management software. It allows us to keep track of patient information, pending treatment, medical and dental history, etc. It also integrates with other software we use, such as Flex Dental and our radiology software, which increases its versatility in management of patients. Open Dental has provided a wide range of services at a reasonable price.

Open Dental is becoming the primary dental software for a lot of dentists by providing affordable pricing, yet still powerful enough to cover most of the needs of a standard dental office. It has good scalability and real-time updating, allowing staff to work on the same chart on multiple workstations. If there is something Open Dental DOESN'T do, it usually provides strong integration with 3rd party software to increase functionality.

Open Dental [Software] is a vital tool to our office and we use it to handle every aspect of our patient care. It's convenient in that it allows us to combine staff and patient schedules with patient records, billing and personal information. At the front desk, we can view patient account balances/payments, upcoming procedures, x-rays and provider notes, which allows us to quickly answer patient questions and provide excellent customer service. Open Dental's customer service is excellent and provides support that allows us to customize the software to our individual practice's needs.

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.

We are an IT company that supports dental practices, and Open Dental is one of the practice management softwares that we support. Open Dental is incredibly easy to support and set up, and works very fast on even older PCs. It's open infrastructure allows third party plug-in creators to make pretty much anything that a dentist may need to integrate with their practice management system. The price is great as well. The interface is easy to learn, with a very low learning curve for new users. Open Dental is an easy recommendation, having worked with all major dental practice management softwares.

Open Dental is suited for any dental practice, even with older equipment. It works great with XDR for imaging, but also will integrate with any other imaging on the market. Open Dental's appointment layout is easy to navigate, and you can get into charts with just a click. Employees who are learning the software have it easy compared to some of the other alternatives.