Open Dental

Open Dental needs no plugin, no API key, and no change to your Open Dental setup. PerioMaxer Desktop types values into the open perio chart the same way a person at the keyboard would, and reads the chart from the screen to verify each value landed.

Setup

1. Install and activate PerioMaxer Desktop on the operatory computer. See the setup guide.
2. Choose Open Dental as your practice software.
3. Open a sample patient’s perio chart in Open Dental and start calibration from the PerioMaxer window. In about two minutes it maps the chart grid and detects your practice’s charting order on its own. This runs once per computer.

Charting

1. Open the patient’s perio chart in Open Dental.
2. Scan the code on the computer with the PerioMaxer app, or use the computer’s microphone.
3. Speak. Values appear in Open Dental as the clinician talks.

If your charting order changes

The desktop calibrates against the charting order it found at install. If your office changes that setting in Open Dental, run calibration again from the PerioMaxer window, or tap Recalibrate in the phone app’s settings while connected.