FEATURE OVERVIEW

DENTRIX G4 NEW FEATURES

Henry Schein Practice Solutions continues to develop new ways to offer our customers the
latest technology to keep their practices up-to-date. With the release of DENTRIX G4 we
can now provide our customers with new features on a more frequent basis. These new
features are bundled in Productivity Packs and are delivered conveniently via the internet
and provide added efficiencies to your practice. This feature comparison will show you
just how many enhancements we’ve made over the years that are helping dental practices
all over the country save time, accomplish more and create a more profitable practice.
There’s never been a better time to upgrade to G4!

Feature G2 G3 G4 G4/PP6 G4/PP7

Enhanced Patient Chart • • • • •

Enhanced Clinical Notes • • • • •
New Treatment Planner • • • • •
New Presenter • • • • •
Digital Signature for Consents • • • • •
Redesigned Document Center • • • •
Redesigned Questionnaires module • • • •
Redesigned Perio module • • • •
Purge Appointments in the Appointment Book • • • •
Guru LE Integration • • • •
Enhanced Patient Picture • • • •
Labnet Integration • • • •
“Dentrix G4 is very user friendly.
Accessibility is wonderful. The Patient/Family Alerts • • •
advances in Dentrix with the past Updated Insurance Information Window • • •
3 versions of the software has Search for Payments in the Ledger • • •
been fabulous. It is extremely easy Global Customization Settings • • •
to become a paperless office. Improved Help Integration • • •
This allows the practice to move
Improved Family Edit • •
forward and able to focus on the
Billing Statement Due Dates • •
patient instead of the process of
the paperwork. I am extremely Privacy Settings/Social Security Masking • •

happy with the quality of the Redesigned More Information Dialog • •

software and the friendly and Library of Note Templates • •
knowledgeable support staff at Family appointment list • •
Henry Schein.” New eSync (PowerPay LE) • •

—Dr. Jay West, Dr. Peter Stanton Integrated Insurance Eligibility • •

Close Operatories •
and Dr. Joseph Opack, St. Paul, MN
Track Appointment Book History •
Appointment Hover Window •
Enhanced Pinboard •
Click to Chat •
Unlimited Quick Label Templates •
PRACTICE SOLUTIONS
New Practice Advisor •
 Enhanced Patient Chart – The enhanced Chart offers 3D realistic representations of teeth
in a variety of views, including upper, lower, quadrant, side of mouth, and arch views. It
also allows you to drag and select multiple teeth and post procedures for teeth with multi-
surface requirements. (Figure 1)

Enhanced Clinical Notes – The enhanced clinical notes feature allows users to save time
by using pre-defined or user-created clinical note templates. Dentrix helps you improve the
content, accuracy, and consistency of clinical notes by providing many selection lists and
drop-down menus populated with the available options. (Figure 2)

New Treatment Planner – The Treatment Planner includes features and options that have
Figure 1. been requested by Dentrix users. Several treatment cases can be created to offer as optional
or alternate cases. It also includes two new treatment plan reports: Practice Case Report and
Patient Case Report. (Figure 3)

New Presenter – The new integrated Presenter module allows you to build presentations
based on a patient’s selected treatment plan. These presentations can be customized with
digital photographs and can be burned to a CD for the patient. The new Presenter module
aggregates all relevant treatment plan information (such as chart views, X-rays, financing,
relevant patient education, and consent forms) for a complete snapshot of what is needed to
educate the patient.

Digital Signature for Consents – eSignature for digital consents makes it possible for
patients to digitally sign an electronic consent form after accepting a treatment plan. Electronic
consent forms can be customized to fit the needs of a practice.

Redesigned Document Center – The Document Center features a new look and feel,
Figure 2.
along with increased functionality that helps your office move toward being paperless. You can
import and store any OLE-compliant file types (e.g. Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft
Excel documents, PDF documents, etc.) in the Dentrix Document Center. (Figure 4)

Redesigned Questionnaires Module – You can create and customize many questionnaire
forms that can include an unlimited number of questions, so you can collect as much
information as possible from your patients. And, you can gather questionnaire information
from more than just your patients by creating provider/staff questionnaires.

Redesigned Perio Module – The Perio chart features a new look and feel that helps simplify
the Perio charting process. With this new Perio chart, you can view the perio graphic chart
and the perio data chart simultaneously, and you can re-size the viewing windows of those
Figure 3. charts. You can also view a graphic comparison of probing depths. (Figure 5)

Purge Appointments in the Appointment Book – To help you keep your Appointment
Book current and correct, you can purge unscheduled appointments. And, your Appointment
Book is automatically updated when patients confirm appointments on your practice website.

Guru LE integration – Guru LE is a dynamic patient education tool that is a limited version
of Henry Schein GURU. GURU LE is installed with Dentrix as a stand-alone product. It is
also integrated into the Chart module and the Presenter. (Figure 6)

Enhanced Patient Picture – Patient Picture now includes options for rotating, cropping,
and deleting pictures, making it easier for you to edit pictures and ensure that they are attached
to the correct patients.

Labnet Integration – Lab Case Manager integrates with LabNet to provide online lab
Figure 4
services and information.

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Patient/Family Alerts – You can apply patient alerts to a patient’s family members so that
you only have to create one alert instead of several alerts. You can save time by using custom
alert note templates to enter alert notes, and you can track when alert notes were added by
inserting a dateline. And, with Dentrix G4, there is no limit to the number of patient or
family alerts you can create for each patient.

Updated Insurance Information Window – You can now enter the benefit used and the
deductible applied from the Insurance Information window in the Family File, so you don’t
have to open the claim to enter this information. This will save you time when setting up
insurance for new patients as well as when correcting existing patients’ benefits.

Search for Payments in the Ledger – In the Ledger, you can search for specific payments Figure 5.
by check number, amount, date, insurance carrier, or guarantor, and you can print a report
of the results.

Global Customization Settings – Customization settings in the Patient Chart, Treatment

Planner, and Perio Chart that used to be workstation-specific (e.g. Patient Chart display
themes, Perio Chart display themes, Patient Chart layouts, Treatment Case Report settings,
Perio display setup settings, Case Presentation Outline Setup) are now global settings that
you can set up once and select on any computer on the network.

Improved Help Integration – You can access several important pages on the Dentrix
website through the Help menu in every module. The Help menu includes links to the Support
Knowledgebase, the On demand Training page, and the Enhancement Request form.

Improved Family Edit – When editing family relationships, Dentrix no longer requires you
to close all modules. This new functionality will save time by not interrupting your normal
patient processing routines and allow you to update the Family File any time during the day.
Figure 6.
Billing Statement Due Dates – Create a library of notes for family alerts, billing statements,
case note templates, insurance claim remarks, and procedure notes.

Privacy Settings/Social Security Masking – You can now mask or hide patient Social
Security numbers in Dentrix and on reports so the numbers are not visible to staff members
without password rights. This will protect your patients’ privacy and help prevent identity theft.

Redesigned More Informational Dialog – See patient contact information, family

members, appointment history, continuing care due dates, and balance information and
launch the auto dial feature all from the same dialog.

Library of Note Templates – You can create a library of custom notes for family alerts,
billing statements, case note templates, insurance claim remarks, and procedure notes.

Family Appointment List – You can select a new option called Family Appointment List
to display all future appointments for every family member on the Family Walkout. You can
select to include all family members, future appointments and continuing care due dates with
the Family Walkout.

New eSync (PowerPay LE) – PowerPay LE is a new program that allows your office to
accept credit and debit card payments directly through your Dentrix software. With PowerPay
LE, there’s no additional hardware or software to buy, and no upfront or registration fees.

Integrated Insurance Eligibility – You can update eligibility status with the click of a
button in the appointment book when you have eCentral. Eligibility status can be viewed in
the patient’s appointment, in the appointment information dialog, in the appointment book,
and in the patient’s Family File.

Close Operatories – You can close operatories for part of a day, an entire day, or several
days in a row, helping you keep your appointment book organized and optimized and enhance
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your scheduling processes.
 Track Appointment Book History – The Appointment Book will now track the history of
an appointment, recording the creation date as well as the dates of changes to the appointment.

Appointment Hover Window – Display additional patient information and appointment

notes when you move the mouse pointer over a scheduled appointment or event in the
Appointment Book. (Figure 7.)

Figure 7. Enhanced Pinboard – You can now store multiple appointments on the Pinboard, making
it easier to reschedule multiple appointments or events all at the same time.

Click to Chat – Use a new Chat with Support option to make it easier for you to contact
Dentrix Support and begin a chat session.

Unlimited Quick Label Templates – You can now create an unlimited number of custom
Quick Label templates to suit your needs. You can customize and format the labels to control
what information is on the labels you print.

New Practice Advisor – The new Practice Advisor helps you assess the overall financial
health of your practice. The Practice Advisor monitors several key performance indicators in
your practice, compares them to industry standard benchmarks, and offers recommendations
to help you improve your practice’s profitability. (Figure 8.)

Figure 8.
Upgrading to Dentrix G4
If you have a current customer service plan, you automatically receive discs of the latest Dentrix
releases. If you do not have a current customer service plan, please contact the Dentrix Sales
team at 1-800-336-7749 to obtain a DVD of the Dentrix G4 software.

Checking for Updates to Dentrix G4

If you are already using Dentrix G4 but you do not have the latest productivity pack
installed, use the Check for Updates feature to download and install Productivity Pack 6 and
Productivity Pack 7.

Right Click the Quick Launch icon in the System Tray. (Figure 9.)

Select Updates | Check for Updates to find available updates on your system.

Figure 9. Install the Productivity Pack updates as needed.

Learn More
• Attend an advanced, hands-on training seminar. Visit www.dentrix.com/seminars
for more information.

• Log in to the Dentrix Resource Center to view on-demand training, webinars, and
articles about the features in this presentation. Visit www.dentrix.com/resource-center
for more information. Access to the Resource Center is free to customers on a
current customer service plan.

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