Switching from paper or a spreadsheet
Moving your dental clinic from paper to MyDMD
Set up four things first: your team, your dentists’ hours, your fees and where payments go. After that, each patient’s record starts at their next visit — with their consent recorded, their old paper chart kept as a scan, and the work they already have marked on the dental chart.
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What do we set up before the first patient?
The app’s setup checklist walks you through these four. Each one has a short guide.
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Step 1
Your team
Tag yourself and every dentist who treats patients, and invite anyone else who needs to log in.
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Step 2
Dentists’ hours
When each dentist is in, so the appointment book only offers real times.
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Step 3
Your fees
Start from a list of 34 common procedures, already named, and type in your own prices.
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Where payments go
The cash drawer, the GCash or Maya number, the bank — whatever your patients pay into.
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Do we have to move everything on the first day?
No. Start with the appointment book and the patients in front of you. A returning patient’s record is made at their next visit, with their consent recorded before it can be saved — the Data Privacy Act expects it, and the app won’t save a record without it.
Adding a patient →What happens to our paper charts?
Keep them with the patient. Photograph or scan the old chart, x-rays and forms, and add them to the patient’s files — several at once, as photos or PDFs. Each file can be dated to the day it was made, so the patient’s history stays in order.
How do we record work a patient already has?
On the dental chart, existing work — old fillings, crowns, missing teeth — is marked apart from the treatment you plan. So the chart starts from the mouth in front of you, and what you plan next is clear at a glance.
Medical history and the dental chart →What replaces the notebook and the spreadsheet?
The appointment book, each patient’s balance and the day’s takings come from the same entries. Record a procedure and a payment at the visit, and the patient’s balance always matches the payments behind it. At closing, the app tells you what the drawer should hold — nobody adds up a column.
The first visit and payment →Will our staff need training?
The help guides go step by step, in the order a clinic needs them. If something isn’t clear, message us.
We use MyDMD (old version). Is this for us?
Not quite — your records come with you when your clinic moves. Moving from the old version explains how.
Try it on a quiet afternoon
Set up your clinic and see your first patients in it. 14 days free, no card needed.