Buyer question · Dental practice management software · release 2026-09

What is the best dental PMS for a DSO with multiple locations?

12 of the 20 checked vendors were never named for “What is the best dental PMS for a DSO with multiple locations?”. The most named: CareStack, in 15 of 15 answers; then Dentrix in 15 and Planet DDS (Denticon) in 14. Every engine named CareStack in every valid run. 12 of the 20 checked vendors were never named here, including Eaglesoft and Practice-Web.

If you sell dental practice management software and your name is not in that list, this is the question to fix first.

These answers come from one capture on 22 September 2026, three runs per engine, to this fixed wording. They are not a ranking, and an engine can answer differently on a refresh.

Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.

Who was named

Each count is over the 15 valid answers to this exact question. Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.

Checked dental practice management software vendors named in answers to this question, counted per answer.
VendorNamedRateWilson 95% interval
CareStack15 of 15100.0%79.6% to 100.0%
Dentrix15 of 15100.0%79.6% to 100.0%
Planet DDS (Denticon)14 of 1593.3%70.2% to 98.8%
Dentrix Ascend13 of 1586.7%62.1% to 96.3%
Open Dental12 of 1580.0%54.8% to 93.0%
Dentrix Enterprise8 of 1553.3%30.1% to 75.2%
Curve Dental4 of 1526.7%10.9% to 52.0%
tab322 of 1513.3%3.7% to 37.9%

Checked and never named

12 of 20 checked vendors: 0 of 15 each.

ABELDent, ACE Dental, Adit, Carestream Dental, Dentally, DentiMax, DSN, Eaglesoft, MacPractice, Oryx Dental, Practice-Web, XLDent.

By engine

Three runs per engine. Each cell is how many valid runs named the vendor.

Runs naming each vendor, by engine, for this question.
VendorChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI Mode
CareStack3 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 3
Dentrix3 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 3
Planet DDS (Denticon)3 of 33 of 33 of 32 of 33 of 3
Dentrix Ascend3 of 33 of 31 of 33 of 33 of 3
Open Dental1 of 33 of 32 of 33 of 33 of 3
Dentrix Enterprise0 of 33 of 33 of 30 of 32 of 3
Curve Dental1 of 31 of 30 of 31 of 31 of 3
tab321 of 30 of 30 of 31 of 30 of 3

What the engines said

For a U.S. multi-location DSO, I would start with Denticon and CareStack.

ChatGPT, . Full answer text in the deposit.

Denticon, developed by Planet DDS, is a cloud-based practice management system built specifically for multi-location dental groups and DSOs.

Claude, . Full answer text in the deposit.

For a multi-location DSO, the safest default pick is Denticon by Planet DDS because multiple 2026 buyer guides describe it as purpose-built for centralized, multi-site operations and DSO-scale workflows.

Perplexity, . Full answer text in the deposit.

The best dental practice management software (PMS) for a multi-location Dental Support Organization (DSO) depends on your specific operational scale, but Open Dental, and Dentrix Ascend emerge as the top enterprise-grade choices for 2026.

Google AI Overviews, . Full answer text in the deposit. Dash punctuation normalized.

CareStack - A powerful, all-in-one, cloud-native platform built explicitly with multi-location scaling and deep business analytics in mind.

Google AI Mode, . Full answer text in the deposit.

One sentence per engine at most, chosen by a fixed rule: the first full sentence naming a checked vendor, read in run order. Every answer in full: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695.

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Release
2026-09, published
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.22907695
Method
v1.1: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode; ten fixed buyer questions per category; three runs per engine
Captured
Base
15 valid answers to this question; 0 excluded
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