Dolphin Management Review: Contract Terms & Data Export

Dolphin Management

Orthodontic practice management software from Dolphin Imaging and Management Solutions, a Patterson company that also makes Dolphin 2D/3D imaging for ortho, oral surgery and pediatric offices. It runs on a Windows server or as a hosted Dolphin Cloud Subscription usable from a PC or Mac. A local Mac install needs Windows via Boot Camp, Parallels or VMware Fusion. Prices are not published.

Cheapest published price

None

Dolphin Imaging and Management Solutions publishes no price
Review-site rating

4 out of 5

7 reviews on Capterra

How much does Dolphin Management cost?

Dolphin Imaging and Management Solutions publishes no price for Dolphin Management, and no third-party listing gives one either. As of Oct 7, 2026, the only way to get a figure is to ask Dolphin Imaging and Management Solutions for a written quote for your practice's size. That is worth knowing before a sales call: without a published list price there is nothing to check a proposal against, so ask what the figure covers, what renews, and what it costs to get your records out.

Vendor
Dolphin Imaging and Management Solutions (part of Patterson Companies)
Deployment
On-premise server
Platforms
Windows, Mac, iOS, Android
Specialties
Orthodontics, Oral surgery, Pediatric
Practice sizes
Solo practice, Small group, Multi-location
Website
https://www.dolphinimaging.com

Every published price

Imaging

Native imaging
Native Vendor-published at pattersondental.com · checked Sep 26, 2026
Imaging integrations
Dolphin Imaging Plus, Dolphin 3D

What’s included

Dolphin Management included features
Feature Dolphin Management
Patient texting Paid add-on Vendor-published at dolphinimaging.com · checked Sep 26, 2026
Claims submission Paid add-on Vendor-published at dolphinimaging.com · checked Sep 26, 2026
Online forms Paid add-on Vendor-published at pattersondental.com · checked Oct 7, 2026
Online scheduling Unclear Vendor-published at pattersondental.com · checked Oct 7, 2026
Treatment plan presentation Paid add-on Vendor-published at pattersondental.com · checked Oct 7, 2026
Mobile app Paid add-on Vendor-published at pattersondental.com · checked Oct 7, 2026

Each line carries the page that claim came from and the date we checked it. "Included" means the base product or the cheapest paid tier. A capability with no line here is one we have not checked on Dolphin Management, which is a different statement from one we checked and could not establish.

Add-ons with a published integration

Each row is one add-on joined to Dolphin Management, grouped by the job the add-on does. The depth is the word the source uses, and the company named is the one that published the claim. A missing add-on means we hold no record either way, which is common: most add-on vendors publish a partner directory and most software vendors do not.

Online booking

Online booking add-ons integrated with Dolphin Management
Add-on Depth Published by What the record says Source
NexHealth API NexHealth NexHealth lists Dolphin by Patterson Dental among the systems it supports, under its "Is my system supported?" checker. NexHealth does not publish the connection method per system. Vendor-published at nexhealth.com · checked Oct 7, 2026

Ratings

Dolphin Management ratings
Site Score Reviews Source
Capterra 4.0 / 5 7 Third-party source at capterra.com · checked Sep 26, 2026

How reviewers score it

The headline rating above is one number covering four questions. Capterra publishes each of them on its own, and the one a practice argues about in a demo is ease of use, so each gets a line here with its own review count. These are a review site's numbers, not ours.

Dolphin Management review-site sub-scores
Measure Score Reviews Source
Ease of use 4.0 / 5 7 Third-party source at capterra.com · checked Oct 2, 2026
Customer service 4.0 / 5 7 Third-party source at capterra.com · checked Oct 2, 2026
Features 3.9 / 5 7 Third-party source at capterra.com · checked Oct 2, 2026
Value for money 3.8 / 5 7 Third-party source at capterra.com · checked Oct 2, 2026

Strengths

Complaints

Install base

Vendor claim: More than 10,000 customers worldwide (vendor claim, all Dolphin products). Vendor-published at pattersondental.com · checked Sep 26, 2026

Last reviewed .

See also