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Carelinq Dental vs Eaglesoft
Patterson Dental’s server-based practice-management system with Advanced Imaging, installed on an office server. Carelinq Dental is practice management and imaging in one app, on Windows, Mac, iPad and Android tablets.
What changes
Every device does the whole job
Eaglesoft Mobile is described as primarily view-only. On Carelinq Dental the iPad and Android tablet apps are the full workstation, including the schedule, chart and imaging.
One server, any location
Eaglesoft requires a physical server in the office. Carelinq runs on one server for the whole practice, in the office or hosted, and every device connects to it.
An assistant that knows the practice
Ask about production, collections or unscheduled treatment and get the answer, a chart or a CSV, from your own data.
Side by side
| Feature | Carelinq Dental | EaglesoftPatterson Dental |
|---|---|---|
| Full app on Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Full app on Mac | Yes | Unconfirmed |
| Full app on iPad | Yes | Limited Eaglesoft Mobile, “primarily view-only” |
| Full app on Android tablets | Yes | Limited Eaglesoft Mobile, “primarily view-only” |
| Practice management (schedule, chart, billing) | Yes | Yes |
| Imaging in the same app, no bridge | Yes The Imaging module, by exam, tooth and modality | Yes Advanced 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 Dolphin 3D tools |
| Intraoral scans (STL, PLY, OBJ) | Yes Orbit, zoom and measure | Unconfirmed |
| Assistant that answers questions from your practice data | Yes The Carelinq Assistant | No Nothing in their published material. Radiograph AI through Pearl |
| AI conversations encrypted and never used for training | Yes Runs on your hardware or Carelinq-hosted models | No We searched. It didn’t turn up. |
| Imaging included, no second license | Yes | Yes Vendor: no added fees |
Eaglesoft details from Patterson Dental’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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