Install SmileMaxer Desktop

Install SmileMaxer Desktop on every operatory computer that will participate in voice charting. Clinicians who want to chart from their phone also install the PerioMaxer app: iPhone from the App Store, Android from Google Play. Mobile access is included with every desktop subscription; no separate purchase. The phone is optional: the desktop charts from the computer’s own microphone too.

Windows

  1. Sign in to your admin portal at smilemaxer.com/admin.
  2. Open Licenses and copy the key you’ll use for this computer.
  3. Download the latest installer from the Downloads page (linked from the admin portal).
  4. Run the installer. Windows SmartScreen may show a publisher-verified prompt the first time. Click More info then Run anyway. (Once we accrue SmartScreen reputation this prompt goes away.)
  5. When SmileMaxer launches, paste the license key and click Activate.
  6. Choose your PMS (Open Dental or Dentrix). Follow the per-PMS setup guide below.

macOS

  1. Sign in to the admin portal and copy a license key.
  2. Download the SmileMaxer.dmg.
  3. Drag SmileMaxer to Applications. First launch will ask for permissions:
    • Accessibility (required): so SmileMaxer can type into your PMS window.
    • Local network (required): so the clinician’s phone can pair over Wi-Fi.
    • Microphone (optional): only needed if you dictate into the operatory computer itself instead of a paired phone. Speech recognition runs on-device either way; no audio leaves the machine.
  4. Paste the license key and activate.

Network considerations

  • The clinician’s phone must be on the same Wi-Fi network as the operatory computer. Most practices already do this.
  • If your network segregates operatories with VLANs, the phone must be on the operatory’s VLAN, not a guest VLAN.
  • Firewall rule (if your IT department asks): allow inbound TCP on the SmileMaxer port (displayed in Settings) from the operatory’s subnet.