Stay up to date with the latest improvements in Chairside, Portal, Lab Products, and more. Our monthly release notes highlight new features, enhancements, and fixes designed to make your workflows faster, easier, and more reliable.
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March 2025
Chairside
- 3-Appointment Smile Makeover Now Available: Transform patient smiles in just three visits with Dandy’s 3-Appointment Smile Makeover. Each step of this workflow is built for speed, accuracy, and predictable aesthetic results, ensuring the final smile looks exactly as planned. Learn more.
Portal
- Live Design Review for Fixed Lab Products: talk face-to-face with your tech and collaborate on your design. During this call, see your design on-screen, discuss feedback live, and watch adjustments be applied in real time. Learn more.
- Case Planning for Fixed Lab Products: You can now book a Case Planning appointment — a video call with a lab tech to plan your approach to complex cases, new workflows, restorative materials, and more so that you can begin treatment with confidence.
- Video Design Review: Now you can add a Video Design Review to a design preview – a step-by-step video walkthrough of your lab tech reviewing your feedback, visually adjusting the design, and explaining key design decisions and relevant tradeoffs. Learn more.
Lab Products
- Digital Relines for Dandy-Ordered Dentures: Dandy’s all-digital workflow designed to enhance the denture reline process is now available for Dandy-ordered dentures. In this workflow, patients keep their existing prosthetics while you scan. These digital relines are backed by ADA-approved CDT codes, simplifying billing and reimbursement. Learn more.
February 2025
Chairside
- Use Diagnostic Scans for Pre-Prep Scans: Save appointment time by using Diagnostic Scans as pre-prep scans in Chairside workflows. Chairside will automatically prompt you to capture any additionally required scans based on the case. Learn more.
- Place Orders from Diagnostic Scans in 'Patients' tab: Order directly from Diagnostic Scans by accessing the 'Patients' tab through Chairside on your Dandy laptop. Learn more.
Portal
- 'Patients' Tab Now Accessible in Portal: View and share patient scans from any device that you can access your Doctor Portal, just like you would in Chairside. Learn more.
January 2025
Chairside
- Chairside Now Compatible with Trios 5: You can now scan and submit orders using your Trios 5 scanner in Chairside, enabling a faster, more seamless workflow with user-friendly guided scanning. Learn more.
- Specify Bleaching Tray Preferences at Checkout: You can now select which teeth should include bleaching wells directly in Chairside at Checkout, eliminating the need for manual notes. If no preference is selected, the system defaults to wells on all teeth. Learn more.
Portal
- Simplified Scan Attachment in Refab Workflows: We've improved the prompts guiding you through refabrication workflows, making it clearer when and why scans are needed. This update streamlines scan attachment and replacement, ensuring no critical files are missed. Learn more.
Lab Products
- Updated Thermoform Night Guard Thickness: Checkout options now display only 2-3mm and 4mm thickness choices, ensuring greater clarity and alignment with clinical and design best practices. In-product guidance is available to assist with selection.