Dental practice management software is use by dentist and other related health professionals as a tool for storing or managing their day to day works. The software includes various activities such as appointment scheduling, document storage and sharing, reporting, contact databases, dental history charting, patient notes, and treatment plans. The software can be use as a communication platform for the employees also for easy running of the dentistry.

Growing awareness, increasing focus on oral health in developed economies and increasing advancement in the technology has driven the global dental practice management software market. In addition, increasing venture capital funding and favourable government support in the health care sector is playing an important role in the growth of the market. In addition, the growing healthcare IT industry and growing urge to give better facilities to is expecting to contribute in the Dental practice software management market. In many countries government is also supporting the deployment of these kind of software tools to improve the oral healthcare access and cut down the administrative burdens and most importantly to maximize productivity

On the basis of deployment mode the global dental practice management software market is categorized in various segments such as on-premise, web-based and cloud-based segments.  Web-based segment under deployment mode has largest market share in the global dental practice management software market in 2018 due its low cost as compare other software and has same features as cloud-based software.It also has the first-mover advantage in the market. However, in the coming years the cloud-based segment may take largest market share over web-based and on-premises segments. It is projected that cloud based segment will grow at fastest rate during the forecast period. Some key factors such as flexibility, disaster recovery system, increased collaboration, automatic software updates, and ability to work on any internet connected device, environment-friendly features, security, and ability to establish competition has leads in growing this market. 

Global Dental practice management market is segmented into North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Presently the North American market dominated the global market but is expected to lose its market leader. Asia Pacific is anticipated to be the fastest growing regional market over the forecast period as in the region there is an increase of investments by industry players. In addition, rising awareness about oral healthcare among people of Asia Pacific region is contributing in the growing rate of the Asia Pacific Dental Practice Management Software Market.

Some of the major players operating in dental practice management software market are, Henry Schein, Inc.; Carestream Dental; Patterson Companies, Inc.; LLC; Practice Web, Inc.; NextGenHealthcare Information Systems, LLC; and ACE Dental Software etc. The market is aiming towards implementing integrated, patient-centric and cost effective models rather than going for the traditional paper based practice concepts. The global dental practice management software market is highly fragmented and companies are adopting strategies such as joint ventures and collaborations to get technological advantages. 

The global has been segmented as follows:

Global Dental Practice Management Software Market, by Deployment Mode

• On-premise

• Web-based

• Cloud-based 

Global Dental Practice Management Software Market, by Geography

• North America

o U.S.

o Canada

o Rest of North America

• Europe

o U.K.

o Germany

o France

o Rest of Europe

• Asia Pacific

o India

o China

o Japan

o Rest of Asia Pacific

• ROW