Product News & Updates

Released 6/17/26 Provide quick feedback on generated notes with a thumbs up or down to improve summary output over time.

Released 6/17/26 Easily remove unfinished voice notes before they are saved to the patient record. Providers can delete drafts at any time, ensuring only finalized and complete notes are stored in the patient’s record. Note: Released for all Dentrix Ascend packages: Essential, Pro, and Accelerate.

Released 7/1/26 Per location, you can now designate a “house” provider and automatically assign selected procedure codes to that provider so that production dollars are credited to that provider when the specified procedures are posted unless an exception has been designated. For example, you can have imaging procedure codes automatically credit production to the house provider (representing the equipment … Read more

Released 6/11/26 With Dentrix Ascend Eligibility Essentials and Pro, after an eligibility verification, you can import insurance information for a patient’s insurance plan. With this release, you can now edit the coverage % and deductible type for procedure code ranges in the coverage table to be imported before you perform the import. To change coverage … Read more

Released 7/22/26 The Orthodontics package is an add-on feature that you can purchase separately from your Dentrix Ascend subscription. With the Orthodontics package, an Ortho tab is available. The Ortho tab is a dedicated clinical workspace inside Dentrix Ascend that gives orthodontic teams everything they need to manage a patient’s treatment in one place—without having … Read more

Released 6/9/26 On a location’s Insurance Defaults page (go to Settings > Insurance Defaults), for Billing Provider, in either of the lists of providers, an asterisk (*) appears next the name of the billing entity associated with the location that you are currently logged in to so you can quickly identity the correct entity as … Read more

Released 7/2/26 Two new patient statuses are now available for selection when you want to inactivate a patient’s record: Selecting either of these two new statuses has the same effect as selecting “Inactive.” Note: For information about inactivating a patient and removing certain information regarding that patient, see the “Inactivating patient records” Help topic.

Released 6/10/26 You can now enter measurements for the following vital signs in a patient’s record: You can also now enter the date a specimen is collected. To allow for these additional measurements, the dialog box where you enter or edit vital signs has been reorganized. Before In this dialog box, you could enter blood … Read more

Originally Released on 6/17/26; Re-released on 8/26/26 Previous releases have introduced improvements to the insurance icon on the patient ribbon. With this release, additional changes to the insurance icon have been introduced: a blue icon now has a red dot; a purple icon is now possible; and a “2” can appear on a green, blue, … Read more

Released 6/3/26 When you are adding or editing a frequency exception for an insurance plan’s coverage table, there is now a checkbox, “Apply per treatment area.” Leaving the checkbox selected preserves the existing insurance calculation logic from before this release (the procedure code is covered X times in the specified period if the treatment area … Read more