Bridge - Dexis  

To activate the bridge, go to Main Menu | Setup | Program Links. Double click on Dexis in the list. Check the enabled box, and click OK. You will now have a button in your Chart module labeled 'Dexis'.

Dexis

Technical Data
This data is provided for troubleshooting purposes.

The bridge sends patient data from Open Dental to the specified text file.  Example file:

Mouse, Mickey  02/24/08  (17)
PN=17
LN=Mouse
FN=Mickey
BD=02/24/08
SX=M

Open Dental then launches Dexis, passing the file name as a command line argument.  Example:

C:\DEXIS\DEXIS.EXE @InfoFile.txt

The patient number is the only required field in the text file.  This means that Dexis likely organizes everything by patient number, and that patient numbers must be identical with those in Open Dental. This is not a problem for new setups with no patients entered in Dexis yet.  But it may present a problem if you already have a number of patients entered in Dexis before you begin using Open Dental.  The solution is to change the patient IDs in Dexis to match those in Open Dental.  If Open Dental creates a new patient ID# which is different from the old Dexis ID#, you can easily fix it even if you have images in both Dexis charts.  In the Dexis Admin window, scroll to the old patient ID# and click Modify Patient. Change the ID# manually to the new OpenDental ID#. The two Dexis charts will be merged into one. It can be easily done on a case by case basis as needed. After a while all your active patients will only have one ID# that matches their OD ID#.