The January 2025 release of Dentrix includes the following features:
- Smart Image update
- Insurance eligibility enhancements.
- Dentrix Installer update
- CDT Codes
- Bug Fixes
Smart Image
- Smart Image has been updated to include the modality view, which introduces a new level of flexibility and efficiency to viewing intraoral images. From the modality view, you can navigate intraoral X-ray and intraoral image stacks. For more information, please refer to the Dentrix Release Guide and the Dentrix Help for Smart Image.
Insurance Eligibility
- Insurance eligibility requests no longer remain in the current month for appointments that occur in the first week of a new month.
- An Eligibility Options tab was added to the Preferences dialog box. From this new tab, you can adjust Batch Eligibility Verification (calendar day lead prior to appointments) and Eligibility Expiration Days (number of days before an eligibility request expires).
Dentrix Installer
- System requirements minimums have been updated.
CDT Codes
- The American Dental Association’s CDT codes have been updated for 2025. If you have an active Dentrix Customer Service Plan, Dentrix automatically downloads and installs the new codes.
Bug Fixes
- The insurance information for archived patients was not being cleared.
- If a staff member ID contained a hyphen, an invalid staff member error incorrectly occurred on appointment.
- When you added a page to a document, you could not paste from the Clipboard.
- You can now copy and paste images from a Word document to the Document Center.
- Posting an insurance estimate override of 0.00 did not update the database correctly.
- Payments backdated to before the pre-payment agreement generated a misleading error.
- The keyboard shortcuts in the Dentrix Setup Wizard did not work.
- When patients had primary and secondary insurance, the Estimated Patient Portion incorrectly showed the primary insurance payment amount.
- Claims Status Notes columns were not spaced correctly in the Claims Manager.
- If you edited Scheduled Task Practice Analysis Reports, the previously selected filters had to be reset.
- An error message incorrectly appeared if you maximized the Dentrix Launcher.
- The consent date in the Family File for new patients was blank when their appointments were set to complete.
- If you changed a head of household’s insurance, the status of the head of household’s dependents was incorrectly changed.
- If you changed the fee schedule for multiple patients using the Dentrix List Manager, the Select Fee Schedule dialog box did not open.
- In the Include Attachments dialog box, if you changed the selection in the Attach From list, an error message incorrectly appeared.
- If you set a patient’s appointment to complete and then archive the patient, the patient’s appointment is incorrectly deleted.
- The Select Patient dialog box in the Appointment Book, Document Center, Patient Chart , Health History, and Questionnaires did not sort names alphabetically.
- In the Insurance Eligibility Report, the procedure code coverage percentages displayed incorrectly.
- In the Insurance Eligibility Report, the COB Rule field was not being populated.
- Scrolling in Advanced Search tab of the Select Patient dialog box incorrectly loaded non-filtered patient records.
- Opening the Ledger and showing history or opening a sent claim caused the Ledger to stop responding.
- DTXLink could not be opened.
- Closing some Dentrix modules incorrectly generated an error message about .NET Framework 3.5 not being able to install.
View the Release Guide.
This version of Dentrix is known as 25.1.
