Which kind of clinic are you?
Start freeDentospire is one dental clinic management software, and these pages show a solo dentist, a new clinic, a specialist, a chain owner or a practice still on paper which part of it to set up first.
The same software, but the part that matters is different depending on whether you are one dentist with one chair or an owner with four branches. Start from the situation you are actually in.
Single-chair and solo practices
One dentist, one chair, no full-time front desk
You are the dentist, the receptionist and the accountant. Software has to save time on all three, or it is another thing to maintain.
Read moreMulti-branch clinics and chains
Two or more locations under one owner
The problem stops being clinical and becomes visibility: what each branch is doing, what it collected, and who can see what.
Read moreOpening a new clinic
Setting up, or in the first year of practice
Nothing to migrate and no habits to unlearn — but also no cash to spend on software before the chair is earning.
Read moreSpecialist practices
Orthodontics, endodontics, periodontics, implantology
Long treatment arcs, staged payments and imaging that has to stay attached to the case for years.
Read moreMoving off paper and Excel
Running on registers, files and spreadsheets today
The records exist and they work — until someone needs last year's file, or the spreadsheet is on the machine that died.
Read moreThe problem in a real clinic
Clinic software is usually sold as one long feature list, so a solo dentist reads about branch reports and a chain owner reads about walk-ins. The question you actually start with is narrower: what changes in my clinic this week, and what will it need from my staff?
How it works
- Pick the page that matches the clinic you run today. Every plan runs the same Dentospire, so a clinic that grows changes its plan, not its software.
- Read its “What Dentospire does about it” cards. Each one names the screen that does the job, so you can find it once you are signed in.
- Sign up and choose your clinic's country. It sets the clinic's time zone, decides whether Indian GST applies to your invoices, and decides whether patient SMS and WhatsApp are available.
- If your records are in another system or a spreadsheet, bring them in with the import wizard and check its preview before anything is written.
- Add your team with only the access each person needs. The Receptionist preset, for example, covers appointments, patient details and payments, with no clinical or settings access.
Safety and control
- Doctors have full access. For assistants, finance, clinical notes, reports, data export and deleting records are separate switches you turn on or off.
- A patient's address, emergency contact, allergies, medical conditions, medications and notes are encrypted before they are stored.
- New invoices, payments and refunds, consent signatures, staff permission changes and patient exports are written to an audit log with who did them.
- Each clinic's records are kept to that clinic; staff of one clinic cannot open another clinic's patients.
Good to know
- Patient SMS and WhatsApp work for clinics in India only for now. Clinics elsewhere reach patients by email.
- The CGST/SGST split, GSTIN and the GST report apply only to clinics in India. Elsewhere an invoice carries one tax line under your own tax label, such as VAT.
- Clinics in India pay in rupees and clinics outside India pay in US dollars.
- A few capabilities need a higher plan: multi-branch needs Enterprise and insurance claims need Pro. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.
Frequently asked questions
Is Dentospire the same software for a solo clinic and a dental chain?
Yes. Every clinic signs in to the same Dentospire; the plan sets the limits and unlocks a few capabilities, such as multi-branch on Enterprise. When a clinic grows, it changes plan and keeps its patients, bills and history where they already are.
Can a dental clinic outside India use Dentospire?
Yes, with two differences today. Invoices carry a single tax line under your own tax label instead of the Indian GST split, and patient SMS and WhatsApp are paused outside India, so messages to patients go by email. Clinics outside India pay for their plan in US dollars.
My clinic fits more than one of these descriptions. Which Dentospire page should I read first?
Start with the page for the problem costing you the most time right now. A new specialist practice, for example, usually gets more from the new clinic page in its first months and from the specialist page once long cases are running. The pages describe the same product, so nothing you set up is wasted.
Who at my clinic can see patient records and money in Dentospire?
Doctors see everything. What an assistant sees depends on their permissions: finance, patient payments, private patient details, clinical notes, reports, data export and deleting records are separate switches, with presets for a receptionist or a senior assistant that you can adjust.
Related
Fast Mode — One Screen for the Whole Visit
One chairside screen takes a visit from patient to prescription, writing into the same records as the rest of Dentospire.
Move Your Old Data In Yourself
Upload your old software's export, see exactly what will land, then commit.
GST Billing
GST invoices with the CGST/SGST or IGST split worked out, part payments, and print, PDF or WhatsApp share.