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How your ADSTRA Dental Software Helps Increase Revenue

As a dentist, you strive to provide the highest quality of care to your patients. By doing so, you increase their trust and loyalty in you and your practice; helping your practice thrive in the long run. While providing such a high level of care to your patients, you also want to maximize the revenue coming into your dental practice.

Ways Your ADSTRA Dental Software Can Make You Money

ADSTRA Dental Software can help further increase your practices efficiency and overall revenue by giving you valuable information:


Turn cancellations into new appointments

As we know, cancellations are inevitable, unpredictable and unpreventable. However – by developing a short-call list, you can make them work in your favour. Developing a short-call list allows you to contact the patients that match the type of treatment required or block of time needed in priority order to fill the cancellation spots on your schedule as quickly as possible.

More appointments means increased revenue for your dental practice, – the ultimate goal.

Make it easy for patients to confirm appointments

With ADSTRA Confirmations, you can save your front desk staff’s time and energy from having to manually confirm your patient’s dental appointments. By sending automatic individual or group SMS and/or Email appointment confirmations and reminders to your patients, you’ll be able to get in instant contact with them and hopefully fill the gaps in your schedule.

Additionally, when your patients confirm their appointments via SMS, the schedule will be automatically updated. This eliminates the need for your staff to manually update the schedule, as well as call patients multiple times for appointment confirmations, giving them more time to provide exceptional service to your patients.

Drive growth by making changes based on current performance

With over 130 different reports and charts that can be generated in ADSTRA Management, on all aspects of your practice and viewed at a glance, you can not only grow your dental practice, but also improve the financial efficiency of your practice. By pulling these different reports you will be able to see which procedures generate the most profit, and thus focus your energy on acquiring patients that require these procedures.

There is always room for improvement in one’s business workflow. You can generate reports that can help you identify which areas of your dental practice need improvement, for example – pull a report in which you compare production by providers . See the profit coming from each provider, and use that information to implement best practices throughout the whole dental office.

You’ve invested time, energy, and resources in your dental software – now let it help grow your practice, and maximize the revenue coming in to your dental practice.

Contact ADSTRA to learn more.

Why Choose ADSTRA Dental Software?

As a dental professional, choosing a dental practice management software for your dental practice is a significant task. You want to ensure that the selected software solution is cost-effective, is going to make the lives of you and your staff easier, will save you time on mundane tasks; giving you more time to interact with patients, and essentially, will allow you to work efficiently and effectively.

ADSTRA Dental Software is focused on providing its users high quality product and services and was specifically designed to satisfy all these core requirements.

ADSTRA Dental Software has been chosen by numerous dental offices because it is:

  • Trusted Solution: ADSTRA Dental Software has been used by new as well as established dental practices since 1994. For more than 20 years, the Canadian Forces Dental Health Services has been using ADSTRA Dental Software in their state-of-the-art health care information system that helps provide high quality oral care
  • Flexible and Scalable: ADSTRA is a leading software developer that provides an integrated dental software solution which has an intuitive, user-friendly interface with tools for managing all aspects of patient care with both on-premise and cloud-based options for dental clinics with multiple locations, as well as individual practices
  • Financially Efficient: ADSTRA Dental Software is a cost-effective, all-in-one solution for managing your dental practice, with no hidden fees, small up-front costs, affordable monthly fees, no cancellation fees, and no long-term contracts
  • All-Inclusive Solution: ADSTRA Premium subscription includes the ADSTRA Management, ADSTRA Clinical and ADSTRA Imaging modules and covers installation, configuration, initial training, upgrades, training for new features and staff as well as unlimited support
  • Secure and Private: ADSTRA Cloud has advanced privacy and security features, and is hosted on the enterprise-grade cloud computing platform – Microsoft Azure
  • Paperless System: ADSTRA Dental Software is a fully integrated solution that provides you the means to computerize all aspects of patient information, resulting in increased efficiency, case acceptance, and new patients
  • SMS Integration: Automatic and personalized SMS appointment confirmations and reminders with COVID screening forms can be sent to patients allowing them to confirm their appointments from their cell phone
  • Numerous Devices: ADSTRA Imaging integrates with imaging devices from multiple manufacturers, giving you the freedom to choose
  • Continuous Improvement: ADSTRA Dental Software offers a best-in-class solution due to continuous product development, and implementation of enhancements suggested by users
ADSTRA strives to provide the optimal practice management software solution for your dental practice, with a financially efficient, all-inclusive, secure and private software suite that is continuously improving.
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How ADSTRA Cloud Dental Software Can Help Dreams Come True

Many dream of opening their own dental practice with the hopes of finding a safe and secure solution that will make the process as simple and efficient as possible. Today, majority of new practice owners opt for a cloud-based solution right from the beginning, and others decide to make the switch after years of being paper-based.

As technology has developed over the years, we have come a long way from when 56K modems were used to dial-in to the internet, or even further back to where everything was paper-based. In these times there were stacks of papers, and numerous files of treatments, notes, billing, reference letters and more laying around. Now, everything is stored on computers…what a change.

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When new practice owners are considering opening a practice they may want to invest in either a single clinic or multiple clinics that offer a variety of specialized treatments and a wide variety of services for patients. With this, it is important they do some research and find a safe and secure solution that is easy-to-use and contains the ability to have their database accessible in multiple locations. Upon their search results, they will come across ADSTRA Dental Software – a provider known to make the switch easier.

ADSTRA Dental Software has offered ADSTRA Cloud, a cloud-based version of their software for years. This solution provides the capability to store databases on a remote server which is hosted on Microsoft Azure, the most powerful cloud service platform in the world. Moreover, with ADSTRA Cloud a new practice owner would not have to worry about the additional costs associated with hardware, as well as servers as they are not required. With ADSTRA Cloud one will be able to access their software and database over the internet, from anywhere and on any device – one of the biggest advantages of this solution.

Additionally, ADSTRA Cloud also offers the opportunity to simultaneously share ones database with several of their locations, providing the management team global reports as well as reports for each location.

The idea of migrating to a cloud system interests practice owners for a couple of reasons. One is that they would not need to divest some of their older computers, and two is that this platform is compatible with tablets, allowing them to utilize all of their devices.

Since ADSTRA Cloud is accessible on a remote server, the main requirement needed is a fast and reliable Internet connection. Just as easy as browsing the Internet, one could access their software by simply connecting to their remote server database and logging in with their individual user IDs.

The ADSTRA Cloud dental software solution is a complete paperless system that also connects multiple locations with one database – which is exactly what one needs in order to start building their dream dental practice.

ADSTRA Cloud Paperless Dental Software Solution

For over 20 years, ADSTRA Dental Software has been a leading provider of paperless dental software. During this time, ADSTRA was selected by Lockheed Martin Canada to supply the paperless dental software component for the Canadian Department of National Defence’s state-of-the-art health care system.

To satisfy their users’ needs to access the same database from multiple locations, ADSTRA developed their cloud solution in 2015 which combined their three successful modules: ADSTRA Management, Clinical and Imaging, creating ADSTRA Cloud.

Choosing to partner with Microsoft Azure, the industry leader in cloud solutions ensured that ADSTRA Cloud would provide the highest standard for a safe and secure cloud-based paperless dental software solution.

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ADSTRA’s one-stop solution also has the advantage of scalability offering an ideal paperless dental software set-up for small and large offices alike, and useful to either single or multi-location practices.

The three main components work seamlessly to encompass all computer needs based on the area of responsibility for each staff member.

ADSTRA Management provides the ability to run the administrative aspect of your dental practice smoothly and without the need for paper documents. Appointments, Financial Records, Patient Communication, Insurance Claims and even SMS Reminders are just a click away.

ADSTRA Imaging is flexible and scalable – capable of working with a variety of dental imaging devices providing a solution that is sure to meet your imaging needs. The various dental treatment infographics that are included in ADSTRA Imaging can be effectively used to improve patient knowledge and understanding of treatments, and increase case acceptances. Moreover, reports for referring dentists can be created with just a few clicks, increasing your overall efficiency and effectiveness.

ADSTRA Clinical allows charting patients’ examinations, odontograms and perio exams and recording dental treatments and treatment plans. Templates can be easily used within ADSTRA Clinical, minimizing the need for manual input. In addition, new exams start with the patients’ previous chart, simplifying the process with only new conditions needing to be charted. Furthermore, ADSTRA Clinical works seamlessly with ADSTRA Management and ADSTRA Imaging: users can view images from ADSTRA Imaging side-by-side with patient’s appointments from ADSTRA Management.

ADSTRA Dental Software provides the optimal cloud-based paperless dental software solution for your dental practice software needs by combining the capabilities of the three main ADSTRA Dental Software modules with the safety and security of Microsoft managed servers hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform.

Implement the ADSTRA cloud-based paperless solution in your dental practice, and experience all the benefits it has to offer.

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ADSTRA iForms – An Easy-To-Use Digital Document Software Solution

Freeing your front-desk staffs time from tedious tasks, such as inputting patient information from paper forms, is just one of the many benefits of creating a paperless dental practice.

An often-overlooked hurdle to going paperless is the multitude of different forms that a dental practice needs, not only to provide a great service to its patients – but to comply with all applicable professional regulations and to protect itself from any legal action.

ADSTRA dental software includes ADSTRA iForms, an easy-to-use digital document software solution with the capability to:

  • Create digital forms that can be filled out on tablets
  • Modify and verify digital forms
  • Organize the digital forms by group/type
  • Store the digital forms within each patients file
How Does ADSTRA iForms Work?

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Step One: Form Creation

Create custom forms tailored to your dental practice’s needs in the Forms Template builder within ADSTRA iForms. The Forms Template builder uses a building block approach that enables a dental practice to create any type of form required.

The builder allows the dental practice to include different types of content onto a form such as: plain text, a question that will capture a written response, a Yes or No question with an option to also capture a text response, a multiple-choice question, the ability capture phone numbers and/or dates, and finally a place to capture signatures.

Step Two: Form Management

Organization of the forms you’ve created is essential in developing a seamless workflow. The Forms Manager within ADSTRA iForms is used to assign single or a group of forms created in the Forms Template builder to patients to be filled out. A mobile device can then be given to the patients, on which they will open and fill-out their required forms*.

Once the patient has completed their part by filling out all of the necessary information on the forms, the dental practice will review the submitted forms.

The Forms Manager allows the reviewer to:

  • Accept and save the form as a document in the patient’s file
  • Keep the form active if a provider is required to fill-out additional information (after which they will save it to the patient’s file)
  • Directly make edits and then save to the patient’s file
  • Give the form back to the patient to make any additional changes after speaking with the patient – then review and save to the patient’s file

When the forms contain critical medical information, and this information could be relevant to the dental treatment record, just keeping a document copy in the patient file isn’t enough. That is why when using ADSTRA iForms, it is also possible for a form to automatically be saved in the patient’s Clinical Notes. This gives the provider an easier access to vital patient information when treating a patient.

ADSTRA iForms is just one more reason why dental practices who wish to go paperless should look at the ADSTRA dental software solution to help them accomplish this (sometimes thought of daunting) task.

* For forms that require entering a lot of text, we recommend a device that has a keyboard attachment.