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I have been using Karen's Replicator to backup Open Dental and then updating it on my laptop.

As this software is outdated, its time for a change.

What are you using?

Recommendations?

Thanks

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I understand what your saying. It may not be considered a bug, but I feel that what is in the appointment box and what is highlighted in the appointment window should always be the same . If not it can be too easy for procedures to be added(or removed) and not know it. One suggestion would be remove...

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As an example: 1. Go to an appointment box that has an exam, pro procedure showing in the box. 2. Click the box, so the appointment window appears, you should see the exam and pro procedure codes in grey, designating that they belong to this appointment. 3. Add a procedure, from your list on the lef...

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When you right click "set complete" the appointment box in the appointment, the procedures shown in the appointment box may or may not be the procedures completed. Or stating it another way, the highlighted procedures in the appointment window, are not always the procedures shown in the appointment ...

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We have been using MS outlook express. Changed out or xp pro computers and now using Windows8.1
I use open office for my word processing, etc. I do not want to buy MS Office just to get outlook express.

Is there an email program that you like?

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Jason,

Thanks. That is correct. When I went to the file containing the download, I was able to open as administrator. It might help to add that bit of information to your instructions on your download page.

Thanks,

DanD

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I have been an opendental user for a number of years. The software is excellent, and I have no issues with it. I did just recently get a new laptop, and decided to install the trial version from the website. I have done this before, but always run into a problem with your instructions....."save to f...

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We do not schedule the same amount of time for a recall for each adult pt. There are some patients that take an hour others take 30 minutes. (ex. College kid vs a perio patient). It would be nice if we could have a column on the recall report that stipulates the amount of time the DH would like for ...

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V Suite,

Thanks!
This is exactly what I was looking for. Hopefully others out there will find it useful as well.

DanD

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Dave,

Thanks for the suggestions. I had someone else suggest that as well.
I would still like to have a monthly report that gives the total dep - CC, as it would be much easier/quicker to balance the checkbook.

Again thanks for the suggestion.

DanD

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V Suite, Thanks for the prompt reply. This is what I am looking for, except that the "$Total" needs to include the insurance checks as well. So the daily "$Total" should include the following three amounts: insurance checks cash credit card payments This would obviously change "$Total-CC" as well Ho...

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Could one of the query experts on this site help to develop the following report- Date: be able to specify the date range For each of the days specified in the date range I would like the following: The date Total Income (the same amount that can be seen on each line of "This Month" report in the pr...

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Specifically, I am talking about the "This Month" report listed as a report in the OD Production and Income list. It really doesn't matter if one is using online banking, OD, or Quicken. You still need to determine if your total deposit for a particular day matches with the "total income" for the da...

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I like the monthly report. About once a week I pull the report up and enter my deposits into Quicken by reading the amounts from the "total income" column. I have now started accepting credit cards, which means the totals are different on my bank statement, as the "total income" amounts is not equal...

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I would like to leave work when I am done....instead of waiting for my backup to finish. When I do get home I backup onto my laptop. I am thinking about using an offsite backup, that could upload an hour after the office closes then restore backup at home on my laptop. Anybody use an offsite backup?...

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When a family changes insurance we have to go in and change it on each member. Which can be a pain especially with a large family. Could we use this feature to make insurance changes. Now if one of the insurances changes we have to go to each family member's screen and change it. It would be much si...

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I do not place my own implants, but do the prosthetic work. Often times the cases get lost in the system. Something like this: I send them to OS for consultation. I receive letter with rec and date of sched surgery, I get another letter telling of surgery complete and a healing period before they un...

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Is anyone using OpenOffice instead of MS Office? Have you found it to be worthwhile? I am using MS Works which has been fine, but now that we are sending out referral letters out electronically with our digital xrays, I have had some problems as they are not Word documents. Can one open an OO ducume...

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If we could have more bugs or problems with Open Dental this forum would be a lot busier.

DanDouglas

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In a somewhat recent post, I had made a suggestion of having the recall interval placed on the pt chart screen, so that it could be readily available to DH and DDS. It would be placed in the patient information section of the chart. In my office we do not use the ABCO or "referred from". My point......

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I wish I would have started my practice with OD. Of course when I started practicing the pegboard system was the cutting edge. You ask great questions. But the one that I think people rarely ask is if it is intuitative. Does your program think like a dentist would think or want his/her office to 'th...

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okay.....enough already! I will NOT buy VISTA
Is everybody happy!
DanDouglas

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I agree it would be nice to edit it, but again not necessary

One of the nice things about going digital is the recall system. It is so much easier to change the recall as per each patient

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Jordan, Thanks for adding pt's age to the chart view. Really appreciated. How about adding the recall interval for the patient as well. Maybe it could be added to the same line. Why? It would be nice to glance at the chart view to see what recall interval the patient is on, while discussing the case...

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I love my OD and so do my nine "refurbished" dell desktop computers. I am wanting to get a laptop for home which I will back up my OD on as well as my other things. If one of my computers go down, it will be a quick fix to use my laptop and will allow me to have an off site backup. I am thinking I w...

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If I search for a topic such as "backup"
It gives me a list of the postings. I read the first one then go back to the list and it does not refresh. Am I doing something wrong or is it this website.

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Has anyone been successful with voice recognition for perio charting?
I would love to implement this in my practice.
Dr Turner, any success with your system?

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no problem....just informin'

DanD

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When I go to the User Manual screen and select "Previous Versions" it still sends one to the old "previous version" page.....can that be set to the new "previous version " page?

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Jordan,

You said you added it back in...which version did you add it back to?

DanD

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I downloaded the top 200 drugs from the internet and the list I had also had a simple reason for the med. ex. insulin diabetes It took my college daughter one day to put them in. We added to the list as needed which was not that difficult. By the end of the first month are list was pretty much compl...

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Jordan,

Just want you to know that when I show people this part of the program they are really impressed.....and of course they love the tooth graphics.

Keep up the good work

DanD

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how can we mark a patient as having a paperless chart? All new patients at my office will be paperless as we are scanning forms and all of our xrays are digital. It would be nice if we could look at the days schedule and have some mark that could be seen on their appointment that tells us they are n...

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I temp solved the problem by making a NoFee code and naming it Tooth Note, defined it as a tooth procedure code. This works fine. I agree with the previous comments about limiting the number of clicks. It would even be nice if: 1. it didn't require as many clicks(as per previous post) 2. it didn't h...

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Why does the Ztoth code not specify a tooth? If I want the chart to show a specific tooth I can do that by marking the selected teeth from the "show" screen. I like this option then you can see what procedures have been competed/treatment planned for that particular tooth. I would like to also see a...

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Anybody found a great scanner to use with OD? Would like to use it for documents and xrays?

I know this has been discussed before but am interested if anyone found something new recently?

Dan

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I have reached 10 computers in my network, and do not want to have to purchase windows server...I am interested in installing linux on my next computer. I have never used linux. Is it hard to install, where does one get the software, etc?

Thanks

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I have been using OD with XDR now for a week and very satisfied. Not as many of the options are available for the scanx(which I have),...but thats okay

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while your are doing these adjustments for the PPO, would this be a good time to correct the Deductible Calculations: ie"Allow global default for applying deductible before percentage"

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I just started using XDR with OD.
It is my first experience with digital radiography
It is okay....but I am not jumping and skipping down the hall
Anybody else have an opinion about it???

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I am currently using OD and backup to a flash drive. I just added digital radiography to my setup. I am using a digital pan, scanx, and my interface software is XDR. My question? My images are being stored in XDR in a data folder so will I need to do a seperate backup for this? I was under the assum...

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Will it show up on the statements as the default description or will it be my descripts?

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I just updated to 5.0.21 and now all of my procedure code descriptions have been changed to the default. I have always personalized my description.
My question is, everytime I update will it change it back again??

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Has anyone had good luck with XDR and OpenDental. I am planning on installing it with my new digital pan and scanx.

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Refresh my memory please
How many servers/workstations/computers can be on xp pro?

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James, Your comment..... "Please when anyone posts a comment, provide all facets of the feedback".....was unnecessary Okra was sharing his/her information. You seem to think that there is nothing wrong with sensors. If you talk to people that have them or see posts on other dental sites, their are s...

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Any OpenDental users using scanx as opposed to the sensors?
If so whats your opinion?

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