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ADSTRA Dental Software – Providing An Integrated Solution For Over 20 Years

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ADSTRA provides the total package, which satisfies the paperless dental software needs of today’s modern dental practice.

For over 20 years, ADSTRA has been a renowned provider of dental software. As a respected leader in the dental software field – the ADSTRA integrated dental software solution has been used by small dental practices, multi-location dental clinics, and government agencies alike since 1994.

ADSTRA Dental Software

Over the years, ADSTRA has developed a paperless dental software solution that includes every element necessary to run your dental practice smoothly.

ADSTRA dental software contains many different tools to help organize dental practice operations, including, but not limited to:

  • Odontogrammes;
  • User-definable templates for patient forms;
  • Direct connectivity with imaging devices;
  • One-click printing and side-by-side image comparison;
  • A customizable appointment book with drag-and-drop rescheduling;
  • SMS appointment confirmation;
  • Role-base access control, and much more.

Now, with the popular monthly payment plan – you can access the full suite of the ADSTRA paperless dental software modules (ADSTRA Management, ADSTRA Clinical, and ADSTRA Imaging) and have access to unlimited technical support and training – all for one affordable monthly fee, with no up-front capital investment!

Track Appointments and Receivables with ADSTRA Management

Track appointments in the appointment book with multiple capabilities; appointments can be booked by team; search available time; appointments history; and access advanced analytics with more than 100 reports and charts.

Go Paperless with ADSTRA Clinical

Create odontogrammes based on previously charted conditions; minimize typing with clinical notes templates; define multiple treatment plans with tasks by priority order – and much more.

Enjoy the Flexibility of ADSTRA Imaging

Combine devices from multiple manufacturers including: Schick, Planmeca, Sirona, Air Techniques, and Carestream (Kodak).

Connect Every Element of your Practice with ADSTRA Clinical

Communicate with each other in the office with instant messages; unify and organize patient’s documents, forms, and letters; and track inventory for consumables and equipment.

Flexibility is key when it comes to choosing the right paperless dental software for your dental practice needs. As such, your dental practice can choose to have the ADSTRA paperless dental software installed locally or have it hosted on Microsoft’s data centers and accessible via the Cloud on any device (PCs, MACs, as well as tablets).

Included in the monthly payment plan are: installation, training, and support – again, with NO need for any up-front capital investment.

Contact an ADSTRA Customer Care Specialist today to see how your dental practice can step into the modern world, utilizing the ADSTRA paperless dental software solution.

Top Reasons for Converting to a Paperless Dental Software Solution

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Many dental practices that are converting to a paperless dental software solution learn two things. One is that they will save money as they do not have to purchase and store paper charts, and two is that a paperless solution creates a better work flow for their dental practice, resulting in increased efficiency, case acceptances, and new patient generation.

While there are plenty of reasons to convert your dental practice to using a paperless dental software solution with ADSTRA Dental Software, below are the main advantages of switching to a paperless dental software solution.

Top Reasons for Converting to a Paperless Dental Software Solution

Appointments

ADSTRA Dental Software not only keeps track of all past appointments, as well as future appointments – but, it can also send email or SMS confirmation requests that automatically update the Appointments Screen when a patient confirms via email or text message.

Patient Forms

Free the time your front desk staff uses to enter patient information, medical conditions or consent forms that the patients filled out on paper – simply hand your patients a tablet with the forms preloaded on them. Once completed, ADSTRA Dental Software has a quick and simple way of allowing your staff to double check the information and to automatically update the patient file in the software.

Messaging

ADSTRA Dental Software also provides dental professionals with an easy and efficient means to communicate with each other throughout the office. You can create and type messages to broadcast to all users, or specific users one at a time, with the ability to custom define one-click responses for quick reply.

Documents

Do you want an easy way to store and retrieve documents pertaining to specific patients coming from elsewhere? ADSTRA Dental Software has your answer. Simply convert the document into a PDF (if it already isn’t one) and you can easily store, view, and organize patient documents for each patient.

Converting your dental practice to a paperless dental software solution is a process that has many benefits in the long run and definitely worth all the time and effort you will put towards it.

If this important process is well planned and all employees are trained on the new paperless dental software solution, the transition would be smooth and rewarding from very beginning.

Some offices are at times initially reluctant to make changes to their practice because of the fear that comes from potential hidden costs.

With ADSTRA Dental Software, there are NO hidden costs.

Not only is the initial training of your staff included in the monthly fees, but there is unlimited on-going training included as well.

Making the switch to a paperless dental software solution is something that will add benefit to your dental practice all around. Between increased patient case acceptance, generating new patients, better overall workflow, and the safety and security of storing your charts electronically – there is no reason why your dental office should not convert to a paperless dental software solution with ADSTRA Dental Software.

Contact an ADSTRA Dental Software Customer Care Specialist today to learn more on how your office can start the process of converting to a paperless dental software solution.

The Benefits of a Paperless Dental Software Solution with ADSTRA Clinical

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ADSTRA Dental Software’s paperless dental software solution allows everyone in your dental practice to work efficiently and with ease.

ADSTRA Clinical allows you to keep track of vital patient information, streamline the treatment process, create notes and prescriptions, dental charts that allow you to establish the existing condition of your patients’ and easily track their progress over time, view patients’ images and financial activity, and much more, all without the need for paper.

dentist and parent in exam room looking at an ipad as the child lays in the chair

ADSTRA Clinical, provides at-a-glance information. The current patient’s name, photo, main information, and alerts are displayed in the center of the screen and the entire patient record is presented and organized in three main partitions:

  • Notes: Alerts & Notes, Forms, Tx Plan, Clinical Notes, Prescriptions, Email & SMS, Documents, Odontogram Text
  • Charts: Odontograms, Perio Exams, Perio Compares, Perio History, Appointments
  • Records: Treatment Log, Financial Activity, Predeterminations, Images, Lab Cases

The three partitions are independent of each other and can be resized by repositioning the two inner dividers, giving extreme flexibility to access relevant details – with more than 100 possible combinations for viewing information.

ADSTRA Clinical, is a fully integrated paperless dental software solution that provides dental offices with a high degree of standardization for clinical notes and treatment planning creation. By using predefined templates typing is minimized, making the process effortless. With this, all staff members (both current and new) will be on the same page when reviewing patient’s clinical records.

ADSTRA Clinical also allows creating fillable forms to be completed by patients on a tablet, which will be automatically imported into ADSTRA Clinical as a note once the provider has reviewed and approved them. The information from these forms can then be extracted via the Forms Templates screen and used for research purposes, as well to establish trends to determine how to better serve your patients. Additionally, the forms can be grouped, making it easier to assign them for completion.

ADSTRA takes pride in ensuring patient information is kept safe and secure and ADSTRA Clinical follows suit. Various features are password protected, and users are assigned roles. These roles grant users permission to complete only certain tasks or functions such as the creation of records by the access-based assistant, and the locking of records by the main provider. For confidentiality purposes, patient names can be hidden from the dashboard, and the only patient information visible is the one currently seated in the treatment room chair.

ADSTRA Clinical is an ideal solution to help your dental clinic flourish and become more effective.

Contact ADSTRA to get the assistance you need in making the switch to a paperless dental software solution, which will help your practice become more efficient!

How A Dental Treatment Plan Can Help Achieve Overall Health Goals

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Dentists know the value of creating a good dental treatment plan for their patients. They are an important part of the record keeping that must be kept for each patient. A dental treatment plan could also play a key role in any legal inquiries years after the services were rendered. As a part of your management software, a dental treatment plan should offer you the ability to keep detailed notes of the problems, diagnoses, and proposed treatments for a patient. Your dental software should also provide you with reminders of patients with a current dental treatment plan that need to have appointments scheduled.

The overall health of patients is sometimes directly impacted by a good dental treatment plan. I’m reminded of story that a dentist told me a while back of a new patient to his practice. It seems that the patient was a recently retired senior who would never visit a dentist unless he was in pain. However, what spurred on the visit wasn’t any discomfort that he may be having – but an article that he had read on the ABC news website. The article was on ways that poor dental care can make someone sick and the following paragraph really hit home.

“Some research suggests there may be a tie between poor oral health and an increased risk of dementia. One study that followed 118 nuns between the ages of 75 and 98 found that those with the fewest teeth were most likely to suffer dementia. Experts think oral bacteria may spread to the brain through cranial nerves that connect to the jaw or through the bloodstream, and may contribute to the type of plaque that’s been linked to Alzheimer”

After the initial exam, the dentist sat down with the patient to review his findings. He asked the patient why he only ever saw a dentist when something was wrong. It seems that because of his crooked teeth the patient was never happy about his smile.  When he was younger his parents couldn’t afford to fix them, so the patient figured as long as he brushed his teeth, the only need he would have for a dentist was if something was wrong.

Dental Treatment Plan

The dentist seized on the opportunity to not only allay the patient’s fear but inspire the patient to a smile that he had always wanted. He created a general dental treatment plan to bring the patient’s oral health back to where it should be. He then also created a separate Orthodontic and Periodontal dental treatment plan. When he went over the plans with the patient, the patient was so happy and encouraged that he followed every bit of advice that the dentist and his hygienists offered to improve his dental health. So much so, that on subsequent appointments the patient’s overall condition was improving faster than expected.

The dentist told me the ease with which his software allowed him to keep track and update the patient’s progress for each dental treatment plan was amazing. He said trying to juggle all three simultaneously on paper would have been much more difficult, especially when arranging to see specialists and keeping track of their results.

How A Dental Treatment Plan Can Help Achieve Overall Health Goals

The ability to create and manage a dental treatment plan is a very important feature in today’s dental software packages. Paperless planning the patients’ objectives of long-term treatments is not only convenient but also is easy to follow through completion. In addition, being able to share each dental treatment plan with all the associated specialists makes the health goals of each patient much easier to reach.