Top 10 Software Products of 2022

PhoneSight is a Voice over Internet Protocol integrated with Henry Schein One patient software, Dentrix Patient Engage, Demandforce, and Lighthouse. It’s designed for practices to route calls and provide a better patient experience through personalized interactions. PhoneSight uses a Smart Caller ID to display patient information, such as upcoming appointments. Team members can use this information in patient interactions, leading to a better quality of service. Other features include custom greetings, auto attendants, and custom hold messages and music.

The Virtual Practice platform is designed for doctors and patients to partner during the entire treatment journey through a suite of intelligent workflows and tools. The platform lets clinicians better identify, engage, qualify, and convert leads; optimize treatment and monitor patients, and benefit from the creation of new revenue streams. DentalMonitoring is launching the Virtual Practice Platform to meet growing patient expectations.

ChairsideCAD 3.0 Galway is a chairside workflow that is highly automated, intuitive, and optimized for practice use. The software includes a step-by-step guide through the design process and a smooth integration with open intraoral scanners, production devices, and implant systems. The new release is designed to offer improved automatic design proposals. ChairsideCAD 3.0 Galway’s Instant Anatomic Morphing enables efficient adjustments: the anatomy of teeth automatically adjusts in real time for dynamic occlusion. Smile design with exocad’s advanced 2D-3D approach is now faster, thanks to AI-based detection of facial features.

This app is designed to facilitate smoother communication between clinicians and manufacturers and improve efficiency. For instance, a practice can communicate with manufacturers through the app’s platform in a relatively short time. vTail is also providing a product database and newsfeed for professionals. The app is free, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-enabled, and is said to be safe for clinicians wishing to keep their data secure.

The QuickVision 3D Implant Planning software was updated to include AI functions and an expanded dental implant library. With this new AI functionality, QuickVision 3D can auto-match DICOM and STL files to easily create customized surgical guides. In addition, Owandy has been expanding the number of implant manufacturer libraries within the QuickVision 3D software, which now includes brandings such as Bicon, Dentsply Sirona, Nobel Biocare, and others.

The MyPerioHealth app is described as a patient education tool; it provides patients a way of understanding different stages and grades of periodontal disease. Patients who have received a diagnosis of periodontitis can use the app to gain a better understanding of their disease. The app complements manual staging and grading through its data collection and automated calculations using the American Academy of Periodontology guidelines. Patients can interface with dental professionals to gain insight on gum disease. The MyPerioHealth app can be used on a tablet or cell phone, with a web version available online.

The FDA has issued 510(k) clearance for Videa Caries Assist, a caries detection algorithm powered by AI featuring a unique, diverse coalition of data. This AI algorithm catches caries early; trials done by the FDA indicate that the number of missed caries was 43% lower for dentists using the AI. This algorithm is based on the Videa Factory, a data set with more than 100 million data points from a variety of dental sources such as practices, dental service organizations, and insurance companies.

With the Denticon Patient Engagement tool, dental practices and organizations can automate appointment reminders, create marketing campaigns, customize patient messages, and communicate important information. It is natively built into Denticon, allowing clinicians to use it immediately. Incorporating practice management software with patient engagement software saves time while earning the practice more money in the long term, eliminating the hassle of desyncing between different software.

DS Core is an open, cloud-based platform that integrates the whole workflow of digital dentistry. It was developed in collaboration with Google Cloud and gives dentists the power to do more so that they can focus on their patients and create easier ways to collaboratively work with labs, partners, and specialists. It seamlessly connects to Dentsply Sirona equipment and is accessible across multiple devices. Practitioners can use DS Core to store different types of patient files and make them accessible from multiple locations.