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What dental software vendors put in writing.
Prices, contract terms and data-export rules for 44 systems, each linked to its source and dated.
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What the 44 systems disclose
What we track
44 dental systems, checked and dated.
More are sold in the US, and we are still adding them. Of the 44 here, some tell you what they charge and what you are signing. Most do not.
Pricing
Only 13 publish a price.
The other 31 quote only. For them, the first number you can rely on is the one in your proposal.
See the 13 published prices →Contract length
23 publish a contract term.
Usually twelve months, then month to month. Eaglesoft's is the longest we found, at 24 months. For the other 21, we found nothing published.
Your records
16 say how you get your data out.
Same category, very different answers: an open database you control, a CSV whenever you ask for one, or a copy they can charge a transfer fee to hand over.
Leaving
Just 3 publish what leaving costs.
Cloud 9 and Denticon charge $995 per imaging extract. Archy charges $200 a month for access after termination. The rest: ask before you sign.
Read the contracts guide →Start where you are
Notice periods
Your deadline to leave comes early.
Notice counts back from the end of your term. With 90 days' notice on a 12-month contract, you have to decide by month nine, or you're in for another year.
Months 1–12 of a contract
90 days' notice Curve Dental (Curve Hero), DSN Software, Practice-Web
60 days' notice Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend, OrthoTrac, PracticeWorks, Sensei Cloud, SoftDent, WinOMS
30 days' notice Archy, CareStack, Cloud 9, Denticon, iDentalSoft
Too late, you renew
1050 checked facts from 70 sources
857stated by the vendor 186third-party, labelled 7unconfirmed
How we know
Every number has a source and a date.
When a figure comes from a review or listing site, we label it an estimate wherever it appears. When we could not confirm a figure at all, we say that too. The changelog records everything that has moved.