Dental Software Guides and Comparisons

A referring dentist, a surgeon or a patient has handed you a CD or USB key exported from a Carestream CBCT unit. The short answer:

Sidexis 4 can connect to practice management software (PMS), but the connection is not built into Sidexis alone: it works only when the PMS vendor

Open Dental connects to DEXIS through a “bridge”: a button in the patient chart that starts DEXIS on the same patient. The bridge passes patient

Your practice management system (PMS) holds the schedule, the chart and the claims. Your imaging software holds the X-rays and CBCT scans. A “bridge” is

Someone sent you X-rays or a CBCT scan taken with Sidexis, and you do not have Sidexis. That is normal: Sidexis 4 is Dentsply Sirona’s

K-PACS was the free Windows “mini-PACS” that many small practices and teaching labs used to receive, store and review DICOM studies. It still runs where

A referring practice sends you a CBCT case as a single file ending in .inv, and the free InVivoDental Viewer that used to open it

This page is for dental researchers, postgraduate students and the IT staff who support them in dental schools. Medical imaging has a large open-source ecosystem,

This guide is for dentists, practice managers and clinic IT staff who searched for “open source EHR” or “dental practice management software free” and keep

This guide is for dental, dental hygiene and dental assisting students, and for faculty planning an anatomy or pre-clinical teaching programme. The short answer: split

A patient arrives with a CBCT disc from another practice, or a surgeon emails a zipped DICOM folder. This page is for dentists, practice managers

This page is for dental technicians, researchers, educators and technically minded lab owners who want to digitise a physical model, clean up an STL, turn