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Verified User in Medical Practice
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

If you enter percentages for each code in insurance info, it calculates copays correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

Constant freezing, constantly being booted out. Logging in always seems to be an issue. Do NOT use if you are oral surgeon. This is more for general dentistry. We have multiple providers, multiple locations. They tell you everything you have is compatible, only to find out it's not and then they direct you to purchase all new equipment. We were trying to move to paperless and it's not possible without having to spend tens of thousands more. Scanning is an issue, taking x-rays is an issue. You have to tweek so many things within the system to get certain things done. Very time consuming. Migration was an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

When you call or get called back for support, it always seems like it's young people just there to answer the phones. They always have to reach out to their tech support to help w/whatever the issue is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open Dental Overview

What is Open Dental?

A powerful, flexible, affordable dental practice management software. Made by a dentist, for dentists. For any practice, any size, anywhere. Free trial version: http://www.opendental.com/trial.html Fees for software, support, and other services: http://www.opendental.com/manual/fees.html

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Product Description

A free and open source software product which includes appointments, charting, document scanning, insurance billing, and Rx.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2003
HQ Location
Salem, Oregon
Twitter
@OpenDent
1,074 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
166 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent Open Dental Reviews

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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
0.5 out of 5
"Garbage"
If you enter percentages for each code in insurance info, it calculates copays correctly.
Jessica S.
JS
Jessica S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Opendental has been a refreshing change as far as Dental software goes."
OpenDental is easy to use and has many customized options for your practice needs. These options allow your team to work effectively and make treat...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
2.5 out of 5
"Open Dental"
It was easy to read. Icons and tabs were nice and large!
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Open Dental Media

Open Dental Demo - Appointments Module
Appointments Module
Open Dental Demo - Account Module
Account Module
Open Dental Demo - Treatment Plan Module
Treatment Plan Module
Open Dental Demo - Imaging Module
Imaging Module
Open Dental Demo - Chart Module
Chart Module
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Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
UH
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

It was easy to read. Icons and tabs were nice and large! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

It was not very navigable without knowing exactly where to look for tabs, buttons, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

It was solving the problem of keep client records, charting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jessica S.
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

OpenDental is easy to use and has many customized options for your practice needs. These options allow your team to work effectively and make treatment planning easy to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

If I were to pick a downside, it would be the time it takes to customize all the many features. Though in the end it is well worth the time and efforts to get the program set up! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

Opendental allows for efficient and easy use. The issue we had prior had limited ability to customize the program to fit our daily use better. Having that ability, allows us to work efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kelsey D.
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

Most helpful is anyone even without a dental background, could click around and find it to be easy to use and understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

I wish notes and procedure codes were in 2 seperate although easy to access tabs. (like clear dent for example) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scheduling, prescriptions, lab scripts, scanning, charting, the list goes on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TW
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

Makes it easy to communicate with patients and keep up with information, records and account information! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

I honestly don't have any dislikes. We have yet to run into any issues that gave me the impression to dislike Open Dental. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

Open dental is solving the problem of us not having to manually calculate balances, keeping up with recall reminders and dates, organizing personal information and keeping track of employee time sheets as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
UH
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

User Friendly, customer support is readily available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

Updates are rocky, we always have to reset our reminders and confirmations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Open Dental:

The number of users should be 10 or less Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

21 patients canceled yesterday after Larry B assisted. Last month we lost $200,000 because of this after an update in March. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MM
Office Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

This platform is overall extremely easy to use and user-friendly, but by far the best thing about Open Dental is the customer service. If you ever need guidance on how to do anything in Open Dental there is an easy chat tool where you can reach a live representative who can walk you through absolutely anything. The text chat is best for me but if you prefer to talk to someone on a live phone call, you can also call and they will walk you through anything that you need. They are also able to screen share if you are still needing help. The customer service has always been fast, efficient, and friendly. 10 stars for that! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

There has not been much to dislike with Open Dental for me. Occasionally, I have ran into situations where, I wish it was like this or that instead but there are so many features available that are customizable. If you have anything that you dislike or want to change, simply reach out to the support team and they can usually help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Open Dental:

I recommend reading some reviews of actual users because working in the dental industry, we have many networking events and we always ask each other which software system each other are using. Open Dental is popular with employees and there is always someone commenting that they used to use it and miss it but their new office is using something different now. There are tutorial videos that you can find online. If you still have questions, give the support team a call and you will be blown away at their efficiency and willingness to help as I have been in the past! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

Open Dental is a well known company and widely used platform. Because of that, all of our other platforms that we use can automatically integrate into our software system. For example, our merchant works with Open Dental so that our credit card payments automatically connect. This is helpful because then there is no more scrambling at the end of the day to figure out why your accounts don't balance. Having the systems integrate saves that extra step which eliminates room for error. Additionally, it saves time so we can focus on what is important: our patients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
AH
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

Easy to use. Straightforward. Customer savvy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

The Account module is not user-friendly. I find it confusing to mark an account "collections" it must be done in the patient file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Open Dental:

Easy to use. Easy to train new hires Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

Update made verifying pt benefits easier to input and keep track of history Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Practice
UM
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

Very easy to use. Allows you to have multiple insurance fee schedules listed and appoint them to each specific patient so you have no write-offs. You are allowed to leave notes on the patient's chart and their health history and for payments and missed appointments. Submitting claims is simple and controlling the time clock for employees is nice. I prefer this software more than Dentrix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

The only thing I wish they could do (and they might actually be able to and I don't know how) is how to look up in bulk available days for appointments. I can only look up day by day, which isn't a problem, but sometimes it is nice to see bulk availability at one time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is better than using paper. It makes scheduling and re-scheduling fast and easy for the patients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Evelyn C.
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

Every software is compatible with Open Dental, very easy to learn for everyone even the dental assistants Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

It just takes time to learn and get used to it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy, time-efficient, allow us to access the schedule on every computer and each staff member can leave their notes as we are paperless. This sounds very simple but were things we did not have with our previous program MOGO. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hao C.
HC
Dentist
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What do you like best about Open Dental?

There is no start up cost for open dental software. Very reasonable monthly fee. It also works with a variety of other softwares such as different xray programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Open Dental?

Compared to dentrix, sometimes it's more difficult to input existing dental restorations as well as treatment planning new procedures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Open Dental solving and how is that benefiting you?

Practice management software is pretty much essential for any dental office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.