The Dentist Group’s Story
San Francisco-based Dr. Joshua Berd, DDS, has been a dentist since 2010 and opened his own practice, The Dentist Group, in July 2016. Inspired by the technological advances he saw happening within his own city, Dr. Berd looked to create a dental practice that incorporated everything he loved about technology and office administration.
Having practiced within other offices before opening his own, Dr. Berd’s biggest challenge was going from a “grass roots” type of system, where he did many of the manual, daily tasks necessary to run a business, to finding the right technology that could take on these tasks and create efficiency and consistency within his practice and most importantly, for his patients.
After much research and due diligence, Dr. Berd found Curve Hero by Curve Dental, a cloud-based dental software platform for storing patient records, digital x-rays, and accounts – and specifically designed for managing a dental practice from anywhere, whether it be the office, home, or beach.
“I feel like dental practice software
is just like another person in your practice. It has to be a good fit. It has to perform well, and you also have to enjoy working with it. Curve is very intuitive and user friendly, and looks nice too, which is important, as you don’t want to look at cumbersome software all day. Curve provides useful online tools, such as training manuals, videos and tutorials, all within the Curve app. You don’t have to look through a big book or thumb through a manual, pay for software support, or worry about servers. For those reasons I chose Curve, but perhaps the biggest advantage is having a software platform that is cloud-based.”
Dr. Josh Berd, DDS, The Dentist Group
This design was the perfect fit for Dr. Berd’s modern practice. While Dr. Berd was working out of one location and setting up his new practice, having cloud-based capabilities allowed him the flexibility and convenience to run his business, review reports, adjust patient records and manage billing and collections from wherever he was. Additionally, he incurred no up-front costs when setting up his new office that are associated with purchasing servers.
Dr. Berd, through a colleague’s unfortunate experience, also saw the true value of using Curve Dental’s platform, and what it would be like if his business was not cloud-based. Two of his colleagues had opened up a new practice and their building had a fire. Water damage caused by the sprinkler system destroyed the new office, forcing the dentists to close and search for a temporary space while repairing their practice.
“I offered my colleagues the use of my office temporarily, and one of the things I suggested to them was to consider cloud-based dental software because these kinds of things, although rare, do happen. Had they been using Curve Dental to manage their practice, all they would need to do is come right into my office, log in through the website and you are right there,” said Dr. Berd.