Dentrix G7.4 makes it easier to edit families in Dentrix and empowers you to choose how adjustments will be handled during the family edit process. Dentrix groups patient accounts into families for billing purposes. These family groupings can represent diverse family...
Learn which Dentrix features can help you set practice goals for the coming year. Have you planned for 2021 and set your practice goals for the year? If you have already set goals, there may be some additional helpful hints in this article. If you haven’t set...
Happy New Year! As you are preparing your practice for the upcoming year, I suggest you reflect on the previous year. What worked for your office and what didn’t, and what does your practice hope to achieve in 2021? Here are some things you can do in Dentrix when...
Lately I’ve seen some questions about inactivating and archiving patients. While there are many opinions on this topic and offices will vary in their policy on this matter, I thought I would share some of my thoughts. If you’ve attempted to contact a patient who is...
When patients are seen for an appointment, they often are being seen for more than one reason. When those appointment reasons take up more than one line of text on the appointment, you have to open the Appointment Information...
When you add new patients to Dentrix, you need to designate someone in the family as the “responsible party.” Dentrix refers to that person as the Head-of-House (or Guarantor). As you are designating head-of-house, keep the following in mind: The first...
Staff turnover is inevitable, and when it happens, you’ll want to make sure that those changes are updated in Dentrix. Because there will be past procedures and transactions attached to providers who leave the practice, you can’t simply delete a provider. But you’ll...
When you want to review the contacts you’ve had with a patient, you can see this information from the Office Journal display window. However, this information will only be as accurate as the records you keep in your office. As a general rule, you should document...
In the Dentrix Patient Chart, one of the items in the Charting Toolbar is the list where you can select a provider. When you select a patient in the Chart, this field contains the provider set up as Prov1 in the patient’s Family File. This is the provider that will be...
When an appointment is set complete from the Appointment Book, the procedures are assigned to the appointment provider. However, in some cases (like hygiene appointments), the procedures should be posted to multiple providers. You can quickly change the provider that...
