Switching Dental Practice Software to the Cloud: Is It Worth It? | Tyler McComas, Curve Dental

Thinking about switching your dental practice management software to the cloud? Tyler McComas, VP of Sales at Curve Dental, talks with hundreds of practices every month. He shares the biggest pain points he hears and how practices are beating "the great dental squeeze" of staffing shortages, rising costs and insurance pressure.

In this episode:

• Why cloud access and peace of mind still top the list
  
  
• Consolidating systems into one patient record (one practice saved $48K a year)
  
  
• Why your team won't use "one more" AI tool
  
  
• Insurance companies use AI to deny claims, so practices need AI too
  
  
• Dr. Jeff Horowitz: 15 software switches, and the only one his team thanked him for
  
  
• Why software conversions are easier than you think
  
  
• "We're too busy": the real cost of putting off change
  
  

📰 Plus dental news: the Dyson toothbrush disappears, the FDA says clear aligners need an exam by a dentist, and a new study on ultrasound instead of perio probing.

We close the show remembering our friend and past guest Dr. David Yang, a true innovator in dentistry.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:56 A week of face-plant trauma
5:55 Why TMJ cases are exploding
9:10 Are patients more tightly wound?
13:45 News
13:52 News: the Dyson toothbrush disappears
15:45 News: FDA guidance on direct-to-consumer aligners
17:05 News: ultrasound instead of perio probing
20:19 Do we still need to probe?
25:09 Meet Tyler McComas of Curve Dental
27:40 Why Curve builds its own tools
31:50 The pain points practices bring to Curve
35:12 Cloud access and peace of mind
36:15 Consolidating systems and the AI tool nobody used
38:10 15 software switches, one the team loved
40:23 Software conversions are easier than you think
41:55 Why dentists fear change
42:51 "We're too busy"
46:00 Who should lead a software evaluation?
48:03 From CDs in the mail to cloud updates
50:58 Heat map: who near you is on the cloud
51:56 Insurance AI vs. practice AI
52:52 Curve's $200 million investment
53:54 Too much innovation for one slide
56:23 Closing
57:15 Remembering Dr. David Yang

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