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Free tool for dental offices, plus a long-winded explanation of why I bothered building it.The treatment plan is where m...
07/17/2026

Free tool for dental offices, plus a long-winded explanation of why I bothered building it.

The treatment plan is where most practices quietly leak. Patient nods in the chair, leaves with a printout that reads like a receipt, doesn't book, and nobody records a loss because nothing was ever booked to lose.

DentalForms Desktop generates 17 kinds of dental paperwork from a form you fill in once: treatment plan letters, predeterminations, CDCP preauths, consents, post-op instructions, referrals. It totals the fee table for you, and you can reopen any case later and regenerate it instead of retyping from the last patient's letter.
Output opens in Word, LibreOffice, or Google Docs. Or print straight to PDF for the claim attachment.

No cloud. No account. No subscription. No server. Nothing leaves your computer.

Two honest warnings: it's Windows only, and it's unsigned, so Windows will throw a scary blue box at you when you run it. The post explains why that happens, and why being suspicious of unknown .exe files from the internet is exactly the right instinct, including about mine.

https://byronemmons.com/treatment-planning-paperwork/

Most CDCP extra scaling rejections are documentation problems, not clinical ones. The patient needs the treatment. The f...
07/16/2026

Most CDCP extra scaling rejections are documentation problems, not clinical ones. The patient needs the treatment. The file just does not show it.

New article: when you actually need a preauthorization, what belongs in the request, and what gets it turned down. Includes a weak rationale and a strong one side by side for the same patient, how long a decision takes, and what to do when one comes back rejected.

Free checklist and blank request form linked inside.

https://byronemmons.com/cdcp-extra-scaling-units-approval/

Wrote up something I'd been meaning to document for a while: running Open Dental's database on Ubuntu instead of a Windo...
07/15/2026

Wrote up something I'd been meaning to document for a while:

running Open Dental's database on Ubuntu instead of a Windows server.

It works, it costs nothing in licensing, and it doesn't reboot itself
into an update mid-morning. The catch is that the one step you actually need, getting the schema onto Linux, isn't documented anywhere, because the installer flatly refuses to do it.

Six scripts, the four settings that'll waste your evening if you get
them wrong, a troubleshooting section built entirely from errors I hit,
and an honest list of what's still missing.

https://byronemmons.com/open-dental-linux-server/

The Canadian Dental Association ships ITRANS2 Claims Director for Windows, macOS and Linux. I took the Linux build to a ...
07/15/2026

The Canadian Dental Association ships ITRANS2 Claims Director for Windows, macOS and Linux. I took the Linux build to a clean Ubuntu 26.04 server and got it running under .NET 10 — the app targets .NET Core 2.1, dead since 2021, and a single roll-forward setting bridges eight major versions to a supported runtime straight from apt. Claims has been the last thing pinning a practice's core stack to Windows; Open Dental's database already runs on Linux, and now the claims path can too. That's a smaller attack surface, no server licensing, and infrastructure that doesn't get re-platformed on someone else's end-of-life schedule. Full write-up, including the install script, the port 9660 exposure you can't config your way out of, and an honest account of what "it started" does and doesn't prove:

https://byronemmons.com/itrans-claims-director-on-linux/

Preauthorization criteria shouldn't require digging through the CDCP Dental Benefits Guide every time.I built a free too...
07/12/2026

Preauthorization criteria shouldn't require digging through the CDCP Dental Benefits Guide every time.

I built a free tool that walks through the criteria one screen at a time. Single unit crowns, extra scaling units, and endodontic re treatment, plus a plain language glossary (ferrule, crown to root ratio, PSR, clinical attachment loss) and a gum disease stage and grade quiz.

It's an unofficial reference guide, not a coverage decision. Only the CDCP can approve or deny a submitted preauth. But it's a fast way to sanity check a case before you file.

Built from the 2026 CDCP Dental Benefit Grid for Ontario. Free to use, no sign up:

👉 byronemmons.com/cdcp

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