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Carelinq Dental vs Dentrix
Henry Schein One’s installed practice-management system for Windows, with Dentrix Imaging. (Dentrix Ascend, its cloud product, is a separate system.) Carelinq Dental is practice management and imaging in one app, on Windows, Mac, iPad and Android tablets.
What changes
Not tied to Windows
Dentrix desktop needs Windows workstations. Carelinq Dental runs the same interface on Windows, Mac, iPad and Android tablets, against one server.
An interface made for today
Carelinq keeps the depth a busy office needs, with dense ledgers and schedules, in a calmer interface designed screen by screen.
Answers about the practice, not just the X-ray
Radiograph AI reads images. The Carelinq Assistant answers questions about production, collections, recall and unscheduled treatment from your own data.
Side by side
| Feature | Carelinq Dental | DentrixHenry Schein One |
|---|---|---|
| Full app on Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Full app on Mac | Yes | No Windows workstations required |
| Full app on iPad | Yes | Unconfirmed |
| Full app on Android tablets | Yes | Unconfirmed |
| Practice management (schedule, chart, billing) | Yes | Yes |
| Imaging in the same app, no bridge | Yes The Imaging module, by exam, tooth and modality | Yes Dentrix Imaging |
| DICOM import and export | Yes Files, multi-frame and DICOMDIR discs | Unconfirmed |
| CBCT and 3D volume viewing | Yes Axial, sagittal, coronal and 3D | Yes Vendor: 2D, 3D and CBCT devices |
| Intraoral scans (STL, PLY, OBJ) | Yes Orbit, zoom and measure | Unconfirmed |
| Assistant that answers questions from your practice data | Yes The Carelinq Assistant | No We went looking and came back empty-handed. Detect AI reads radiographs; no practice-data assistant found |
| AI conversations encrypted and never used for training | Yes Runs on your hardware or Carelinq-hosted models | No At least not that we know of. |
| Imaging included, no second license | Yes | Yes Vendor: no extra fees in the US |
Dentrix details from Henry Schein One’s published material, checked October 2026. Where a “No” comes with a note like “not that we could find”, we found no published evidence of the feature. Product names belong to their owners.
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