Guides

The sequence, the language and the mistakes new dental assistants and hygienists make. A practical walkthrough of charting a full mouth, from setup to perio, on paper and in software.

Every notation you will meet on a dental chart — tooth numbering systems, surface abbreviations, condition symbols, perio scores and the colour conventions — plus how the main software packages render them.

No — Open Dental is an on-premise product. But there are three ways to reach it remotely, they cost real money, and none of them makes it a cloud product. Here is what each option actually involves.

We checked every major US dental practice management vendor for a published price. Five have one. Nine don't. And the review sites filling the gap are getting it wrong — including attributing one product's prices to another.

Dentrix is the most widely used dental practice management system in the United States. Here is what it does, how Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend and Dentrix Enterprise differ, and why none of them publishes a price.