I have hinted before at what I would truly like to see from Dental Lab software – some of it I don’t know if it will ever come true from anyone. In the mean time, I am going to give an unsolicited product endorsement:

Jenmar International’s Dental Lab Management Software

At this point I have reviewed and played with basically everything out there that isn’t DOS based (and who the hell would invest in DOS based applications at this point anyway?) Jenmar truly understands the difference betweeen case tracking and Lab Management. They’re the only ones who seem to have as much emphasis on rapid entry and ease of use as they do on getting crucial business information out to the managers.

Some of the big selling points for the product that Jenmar puts out have to be the ability to link and pull in information from closed cases (remakes, restains, etc) so that there is a clear path with any case as well as Dr preferences on a per item basis – so you can have a Doc that wants a PFM a certain way every time and it auto

Even if you’re not running a pay-per-piece lab, this is the way to go. Someday, though, someone is going to make one that gives you a department dashboard with graphs and all. We’ll see.