Whois & Analysis for opendental.com

Open Dental, previously known as Free Dental, is a Practice Management Software licensed under the GNU General Public License.

It is written in the C# programming language compatible with Microsoft.NET Framework and was first released in 2003.

Current versions of the software require Microsoft Windows.

Earlier versions of the software had supported other operating systems, but Linux support has been dropped.

The full function version is only available under the commercial license because it includes royalty bearing, licensed materials from the American Dental Association (ADA), the Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (CDT).

Medical practice management software (PMS) is a category of healthcare software that deals with the day-to-day operations of a medical practice.

Such software frequently allows users to capture patient demographics, schedule appointments, maintain lists of insurance payors, perform billing tasks, and generate reports.

The term dental software is used for software used in dentistry.

Computers have been used in dental medicine since the 1960s.

Since then, computers and information technology have spread progressively in the dental practice.

According to Atkinson, J.

in the year 2000, 85.1% of all dentists in the United States were using computers.

The open-source model is a decentralized development model that encourages open collaboration.

A main principle of open-source software development is peer production, with products such as source code, blueprints, and documentation freely available to the public.

The open-source movement in software began as a response to the limitations of proprietary code.

The model is used for projects such as in open-source appropriate technologies, and open-source drug discovery.

Dentistry is a branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, commonly in the dentition but also the oral mucosa, and of adjacent and related structures and tissues, particularly in the maxillofacial (jaw and facial) area.

Although primarily associated with teeth among the general public, the field of dentistry or dental medicine is not limited to teeth but includes other aspects of the craniofacial complex including the temperomandibular and other supporting structures.

The term dentistry comes from odontology (from Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús, "tooth")) – the study of the structure, development, and abnormalities of the teeth.

Because of their substantial overlap in concept, dentistry is often also understood to subsume the now largely defunct medical specialty of stomatology (the study of the mouth and its disorders and diseases) for which reason the two terms are used interchangeably in certain regions.