AI is collapsing bloated dental PMS vendors and enabling practice-owned operating systems: faster iteration, fewer dashboards, better patient experience.
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By Enzo Sison, Founder of Prism
Dentistry (opens in a new tab) is about to get weird in the best way.
Not because teeth suddenly changed.
Because software did.
In the last few days alone, we watched two frontier labs drop their strongest models. And then update them again. That's the pattern now. Ship, improve, ship, improve. The iteration speed is accelerating.
And when software starts improving at internet speed, every industry built on slow moving tools gets exposed.
Dentistry is one of them.
Here's the simple thesis investors are reacting to.
If AI can build custom software on demand, the value of generic, one size fits all SaaS collapses.
That's why the market has been punishing big, bloated software companies. The old pitch was. Pay us forever because building this yourself is impossible.
AI is turning that into. Why are we paying you forever.
This isn't a small shift. It's a power shift.
And dentists (opens in a new tab) are going to feel it faster than most people realize.
Every dental practice runs on a core system.
In dentistry, that core is the PMS Practice or Patient Management System. Basically a CRM or CMS for your entire practice.
And one of the biggest legacy names in that world is Dentrix.
Here's the issue. A lot of PMS vendors got comfortable. They cornered the market. They became the default. And once you're the default, you don't have to be great. You just have to be the thing everyone uses.
So you get.
Big orgs move like aircraft carriers. In an era that rewards speed, aircraft carriers lose to speedboats.
For the first time in history, a small business can realistically build software that's.
This is the part people underestimate.
AI doesn't just write code. It collapses the cost of experimentation.
The real advantage isn't we can build software.
It's we can iterate until the software actually fits.
That's how the speedboat wins.
The future PMS isn't a vendor dashboard you log into.
It's a practice operating system that you own paired with agents that run it.
Picture a morning where you don't check systems.
You get a report.
Your agents tell you.
Then the agents execute.
Not with magic.
With systems.
AI makes those systems cheap enough to build, and smart enough to run.
This is the part I care about most.
When the operational noise drops scheduling chaos, insurance friction, reporting blindness your team gets their time and attention back.
So instead of staff spending their day reacting to logistics, they spend their day improving the one thing that actually compounds.
The patient experience.
That's what humans are still best at.
AI won't beat a great front desk team at making a nervous patient feel safe.
But it will beat your practice at juggling 40 operational plates at once.
So let it.
If you're a practice owner, you don't need to become an AI expert.
You need to do three things.
This is where the leverage is going.
At Prism, we work with world class dentists to modernize everything patients touch online.
But the real mission is bigger.
We help practices adopt frontier tech without the pain.
We test the new tools early. We build internal systems with them. We pressure test what's real versus hype.
Then we translate it into simple, practical upgrades that make a practice run better.
The dentist shouldn't have to fight the technology.
Technology should fight for the dentist.
For decades, dental software has been something practices tolerate.
That era is ending.
We're moving into a world where a dental practice can.
This is a decentralization moment.
Power is moving from giant vendors to the individual practice.
And if you're a dentist reading this. That's not a threat.
That's your opening.
Enzo Sison
Founder, Prism
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