Dental Technology
The Count
No practice closes the day on a feeling; the day sheet is set against the deposit. A software trial deserves the same habit. This post shows how to keep two columns, the task done in the tool and the task done the old way, who keeps them, and what to do when the count and the mood disagree.
October 16, 2026 · 6 min read
The Thing You Are Still Doing By Hand
Open the top drawer at your front desk. There is a notebook in it that was supposed to be gone when you bought the software. A by-hand process survives for one of three reasons: it is a backup, nobody was entitled to end it, or the software does not do the job. Each one calls for a different response, and none of them is throwing the notebook away.
October 9, 2026 · 6 min read
What a Trial Is Actually For
The email says your trial ends tomorrow. In a lot of practices nobody can say whether anyone used it, because nobody decided at the start that this was the thing to find out. A trial is not for confirming you like a product. It is for finding out whether your team will use it before the money is spent.
September 25, 2026 · 7 min read
Before You Look at a Single Vendor
The demo came first, and the practice found out later what it actually needed. Before evaluating any vendor, a practice owes itself a short internal conversation: say the problem so someone could see it, name who owns it today, decide what doing nothing costs, and name whose day changes. The ADA's own business-planning guidance starts the same way.
September 9, 2026 · 7 min read
AiroDental Raises $0 to Keep Dental AI Accountable to Dentists
AiroDental today announced that it has raised $0 in outside funding. No venture capital, no private equity, no debt, no board. Founder Deren Flesher, DDS, a practicing dentist in Edmond, Oklahoma, owns 100 percent of the company, and explains why the person deciding what dental software does should be someone who has to use it in a dental practice.
September 8, 2026 · 5 min read
What Dentists Want AI to Do First
The ADA's Health Policy Institute asked 552 dentists in private practice which tasks they use AI for, and then asked the ones who plan to adopt when they intend to start. The two answers run close to opposite. Charting has nearly twice the intent behind it. The front desk is the thing people are moving on now. Here is why that is, and what it means if you are the one deciding.
September 4, 2026 · 7 min read
What Your Software Counts as Unscheduled
Four practices pull the same report on the same morning and get four numbers. None of them is comparable to the others, and none of them is wrong. The systems differ on whether they count people or procedures, which date the report hangs on, and whether the number is even current. Here is what each one actually counts.
September 2, 2026 · 7 min read
Who Answers When Two Vendors Point at Each Other
Every practice that runs more than one piece of software has had the hour where both vendors say the log looks fine on their side. It is not a support-culture problem. It is a contract problem, and the practice owns it by default.
August 28, 2026 · 7 min read
What Happens to Your Data If You Leave
Most owners sign the business associate agreement and never read it again. Inside it is the only provision in federal regulation about what a vendor owes your practice when the relationship ends, and it says considerably less than you would expect.
August 21, 2026 · 8 min read
Your Images Do Not Travel: Why Sending a Radiograph Is Still Hard
Federal regulators came close to requiring that images be portable three separate times, and each time the requirement got weaker or went away. That history is the real reason a practice still burns a CD or hands the patient a folder and hopes it reaches the specialist.
August 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Integration Is Not One Thing: What "Works With Your PMS" Actually Means
Ask three vendors whether their product integrates with your practice management system and you will get three yeses that mean three different things. Reading is not writing, a copy is not live data, and one connected system is not all of them. The ADA has been telling federal regulators why dentistry ended up here, and the explanation gives buyers a much better set of questions to ask.
August 5, 2026 · 6 min read
One AI Platform vs. Five Different Logins: What Actually Works for a Dental Practice
Most dental practices already run on a stitched-together stack of separate tools. Here's what actually makes AI helpful instead of one more login to manage.
July 9, 2026 · 5 min read