Integration
It works with the OpenDental you already run.
No migration, no second chart, no switching practice-management software. Molar connects to your OpenDental through its API and treats it as the source of truth.
What Molar reads
- Appointments, operatories, providers and schedule rules, to compute what's genuinely bookable.
- Patients and their contact details, to match a text or a form to the right chart.
- Recall due dates, to know who's owed a visit.
- Practice definitions and appointment types, because these differ per install and can't be assumed.
What Molar writes
- New and rescheduled appointments from online booking.
- Confirmation status on an appointment when a patient confirms.
- Form answers as structured records, demographics, allergies, diseases, medications.
- Nothing clinical that a person didn't enter. Molar does not author chart notes.
Writes are verified, not assumed.
OpenDental's API documentation and OpenDental's actual behavior are not always the same thing, we've found the differences the hard way, against a live install. So Molar reads back what it wrote and reports what the system actually stored.
- Every write is followed by a read-back before Molar reports success.
- Sync status is computed from what OpenDental returned, never fabricated from an optimistic assumption.
- Anything that can't be mapped cleanly is surfaced for review rather than dropped.
Vendor-neutral underneath.
Molar talks to practice-management systems through an adapter, not through OpenDental-shaped code scattered across the product. OpenDental is the adapter that's live today; the architecture is built so it isn't the only one it could ever be.
Questions we get asked.
Do we need to move to the cloud version of OpenDental?
No. What matters is that Molar can reach your OpenDental API. We'll confirm your specific setup on the demo call.
Will this slow down our OpenDental?
Molar's reads are bounded and scheduled deliberately, the recall pull, for example, runs on a bounded daily cadence rather than polling continuously.
What happens to our data if we stop using Molar?
It's already in OpenDental. Bookings, confirmations, and form answers were written to your chart as they happened, so there's no export ritual and nothing to hand back.
Are you affiliated with OpenDental Software, Inc.?
No. Molar is an independent product that integrates with OpenDental through its published API.
Bring your OpenDental version.
We’ll tell you on the call exactly what will and won’t work with your install.