Dental Operations
Treatment Planning Is the Practice: Why the Paperwork Is Not an Afterthought
Every practice I have worked in has had the same quiet leak. Not the schedule, not the hygiene column, not collections. The treatment plan.…
Author: Byron Emmons
Dental Operations
Getting Extra Scaling Units Approved Under the CDCP: What Works and What Does Not
Extra scaling units are one of the most common preauthorization requests I see, and one of the most commonly rejected. The frustrating part is…
IT & Security
Open Dental on Ubuntu: MariaDB Server with Windows Workstations
Open Dental is a Windows application. Its database is MySQL/MariaDB, which meansthere is no reason the server half has to be Windows. Putting it…
IT & Security
Running the CDA’s ITRANS Claims Director on Ubuntu 26.04 with .NET 10
Most dental practices in Canada submit insurance claims through ITRANS, the Canadian Dental Association’s claims network. The desktop piece of that is ITRANS2 Claims…
Dental Operations
How I Build a Dental Practice Back Office from a Clean Greenfield
Most practices don’t get designed. They accumulate. A software subscription here, a filing habitthere, a firewall someone set up in 2016 and nobody has…