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Open Dental

Quality Software for Dental Offices.

Last updated: March 2025

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Open Dental - 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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.

Benefits of using Open Dental

View a 3D Graphical Tooth Chart that displays patient dentition and treatment over time. Integrated eServices allow seamless communication with patients before, during, and after their appointment. Easily customize patient forms for a paperless patient experience. Integrated with electronic prescription services to help meet regulatory requirements. 30+ internal reports coupled with 1000+ custom queries give practices access to the data they need.

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Open Dental's key features

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

Charting

4.4

(14)

Appointment Management

4.7

(13)

Claims Management

4.5

(13)

Patient Records Management

4.5

(12)

Treatment Planning

4.6

(10)

Confirmations/Reminders

4.3

(6)

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Features rating:

4.5

(78)

Progress Notes

5.0

(2)

Dental Practice Management

5.0

(1)

Client Management

4.3

(4)

Billing & Invoicing

5.0

(1)

Scheduling

5.0

(1)

Task Scheduling

5.0

(1)

HIPAA Compliant

5.0

(1)

Imaging and X-rays

4.5

(8)

Medical Billing

5.0

(3)

Live Chat

(0)

Multi-Location

(0)

Orthodontic Charting

(0)

Inventory Management

(0)

Patient Communications

(0)

Patient Management

(0)

Patient Portal

(0)

Periodontal Charting

(0)

Progress Tracking

(0)

Records Management

(0)

Referral Tracking

(0)

Reminders

(0)

Reporting & Statistics

(0)

Role-Based Permissions

(0)

Scheduled/Automated Reports

(0)

Self Service Portal

(0)

SMS Messaging

(0)

Third-Party Integrations

(0)

User Management

(0)

Web Forms

(0)

Access Controls/Permissions

(0)

Activity Dashboard

(0)

Activity Tracking

(0)

Alerts/Notifications

(0)

Annotations

(0)

API

(0)

Automated Scheduling

(0)

Booking Management

(0)

Calendar Management

5.0

(1)

Client Portal

(0)

Communication Management

(0)

Customer Database

(0)

Customer History

(0)

Customizable Reports

(0)

Customizable Templates

(0)

Data Synchronization

(0)

Document Imaging

(0)

Document Management

(0)

Document Storage

(0)

Document Templates

(0)

E-Prescribing

(0)

Electronic Payments

(0)

Email Reminders

(0)

For Dental Practices

(0)

Hands-Free Charting

(0)

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Value for Money

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Value for Money

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Value for Money

4.3

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Value for Money

4.6

Customer Support

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Open Dental pricing

Value for money rating:

4.5

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Pricing details

Subscription

Free trial

Free plan

Pricing range

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Open Dental integrations (28)

Integrations rated by users

We looked through 78 user reviews, to identify which products are mentioned as Open Dental integrations, and what is the users perception.

Solutionreach

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

“Appointment reminders, confirmations, patient intake forms, and other patient communication tools.”

Sumeet Srivastava

CEO

Flex

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

Mango Voice

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

Dental Intelligence

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Swell

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Zuub

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Weave

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Carestream Dental

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

SOTA Cloud

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Open Dental support options

Typical customers

Freelancers

Small businesses

Mid size businesses

Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web

Android

iPhone/iPad

Support options

Chat

Phone Support

Email/Help Desk

FAQs/Forum

Training options

Documentation

In Person

Webinars

Live Online

Videos

Open Dental reviews

Overall rating

4.6

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown

Value for money
Ease of use
Features
Customer support
Likelihood to recommend9.01/10

Rating distribution

Pros

“If something can't be figured right then they send to a higher level tech and solutions are found in a great time frame. The cost is great for such good customer service.”

Cari G.

Office Manager

“Ease of use is and ability for new staff to learn on is fantastic. The support is easily accessible and every issue has been resolved quickly.”

Illya T.

Owner/Dentist

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

Michelle K.

Financial Coordinator

Cons

“This could be a server problem but we have a very large company and when connecting remotely from another location the system runs very slow.”

hannah h.

Call Center Mananger

“Be careful,they change the price without warning and then deceive that they talked about it.”

Mykola K.

DMD

“I hate to complain because there’s not too much to complain about... but we don’t love that you can’t edit the hours on the schedule to only start at 6 or 7 AM and end at 6 PM.”

Amber R.

Dentist/owner

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