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Quality Software for Dental Offices.

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Open Dental - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

Open Dental overview

What is Open Dental?

Open Dental is a powerful practice management software that is suitable for single offices or multi-clinic locations.

Schedule and manage appointments using the Appointments Module. In addition to the seven modules, Open Dental offers robust customized reporting, eServices for patient communication (e.g., 2-way texting, online scheduling, mobile access, etc.), patient forms that can be tailored to the practice and filled digitally additional third-party integrations, and so much more.

Starting price

Free

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Pros & Cons

Ease of Use

Pricing

Dental Practice Management

Patient Appointment Management

Open Dental’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Open Dental pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
 
1-2(5)
3-4(15)
5(67)

What do users say about Open Dental?

Any tracking is done with manual queries which can be very unfriendly to end user.

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Who uses Open Dental?

Based on 87 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Hospital & Health Care
Health, Wellness and Fitness
Medical Practice

Use cases

Dental
Dental Charting

Open Dental's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Open Dental users:

Charting
Client management
Treatment planning
Claims management
Patient records management
Calendar management
Imaging and x-rays
HIPAA compliant
Confirmations/Reminders
Medical billing

All Open Dental features

Features rating:

Access controls/permissions
Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Annotations
API
Appointment management
Automated scheduling
Billing & invoicing
Booking management
Calendar management
Charting
Claims management
Client management
Client portal
Communication management
Confirmations/Reminders
Customer database
Customer history
Customizable reports
Customizable templates
Data synchronization
Dental practice management
Document imaging
Document management
Document storage
Document templates
Electronic payments
Email reminders
E-Prescribing
For dental practices
Hands-Free charting
HIPAA compliant
Imaging and x-rays
Inventory management
Live chat
Medical billing
Multi-Location
Orthodontic charting
Patient communications
Patient management
Patient portal
Patient records management
Periodontal charting
Progress notes
Progress tracking
Records management
Referral tracking
Reminders
Reporting & statistics
Role-Based permissions
Scheduled/Automated reports
Scheduling
Self service portal
SMS messaging
Task scheduling
Third-Party integrations
Treatment planning
User management
Web forms

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Open Dental pricing

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Free trial
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User opinions about Open Dental price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Open Dental's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“They have a robust software that can help manage most aspects of a dental practice.”
PJ

Philippe J.

Dentist

“For more specific reports tailored to our business needs, it is sometimes tough to find a "User Query" that is on point. ”
JC

Josh C.

Practice Manager

Open Dental integrations (5)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 87 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Open Dental integrations and how users feel about them.

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Flex

Integration rating: 5.0 (4)

All the information from labor request in quotes.

DT

Diego T.

Director of Operations

Integration rating: 4.7 (4)

Phone and paperwork, patient payments

Eaglesoft and Dental intelligence used to work together great, but stopped communicating properly and we were never able to resolve this. I do believe this problem was caused by DI and NOT be Eaglesoft.

BB

Brittany B.

Office manager

1/2

Integration rating: 4.3 (3)

This is how we take our bonescans and panoramic images

They don't work together at all. Carestream is for imaging, like Xrays

GB

Gina B.

Patient Acquisition Specialist

1/2
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Weave

Integration rating: 4.7 (3)

We enjoy utilizing Weave. There are certain feature that do not work with Weave, which is a common issue with Denticon API integrations.

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Allison J.

COO

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Adit

Integration rating: 5.0 (3)

Open Dental customer support

What do users say about Open Dental customer support?

Customer support rating:

We analyzed verified user reviews to identify positive and negative aspects of Open Dental customer support.

A large number of users find Open Dental's customer support fast, friendly, and easily accessible through multiple channels.

Frequently reported by users, support staff resolve issues quickly and provide knowledgeable assistance whenever needed.

A minority of users mention occasional inaccurate advice from support and dislike the requirement to pay monthly for assistance.

Support options

Chat
Phone support
Email/help desk
Faqs/forum

Training options

Documentation
In person
Webinars
Live online
Videos

To see what individual users say about Open Dental's customer support, check out the review snippets below.

“Soooo easy to use and if I cant find something I can quickly reach out to support for help”

JW

Jennifer W.

Office Manager

“Best of all, their customer service is easily reachable by several different options and is fast and fantastic.”

MK

Michelle K.

Financial Coordinator

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