Open Dental
Open Dental is dental practice management software with an openly documented public REST API. The API is hosted at Open Dental headquarters (base https://api.opendental.com/api/v1) and lets approved third-party developers read and write practice data - patients, appointments, providers, procedures, insurance claims, payments, ledger adjustments, fee schedules, recalls, documents, medications and prescriptions, referrals, and clinical sheets - on behalf of Open Dental customers. Requests authenticate with a per-application Developer Key and a per-customer Customer Key sent together in an Authorization ODFHIR {DeveloperKey}/{CustomerKey} header. The public spec documents 130+ resource groups with GET/POST/PUT/DELETE operations. Open Dental also runs a local API Service option that talks to the on-premises Open Dental program without routing through Open Dental's servers, and a separate FHIR interface.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Open Dental the way a machine reads it — 20 machine-readable artifacts across 13 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Open Dental scores 37.9/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Open Dental
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Open Dental. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 13
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Open Dental Accounts & Ledger API
MODELED. Adjustments and payment splits on the patient ledger.
Open Dental Appointments API
CONFIRMED. Scheduling, slots, and WebSched.
Open Dental Claims API
CONFIRMED. Insurance claims and claim workflow.
Open Dental Documents API
MODELED. Files and images attached to a patient.
Open Dental Fees & Fee Schedules API
MODELED. Procedure fees and fee schedules.
Open Dental Medications & Prescriptions API
MODELED. Medication catalog, patient meds, and prescriptions.
Open Dental Patients API
CONFIRMED. Patient demographic records.
Open Dental Payments API
CONFIRMED. Patient payments, refunds, and split reallocation.
Open Dental Procedures API
CONFIRMED. ProcedureLogs, insurance history, and group notes.
Open Dental Providers API
CONFIRMED. Dentists, hygienists, and billing entities.
Open Dental Recalls API
MODELED. Hygiene / continuing-care recalls.
Open Dental Referrals API
MODELED. Referral sources and attachments.
Open Dental Sheets API
MODELED. Configurable clinical and administrative forms.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Open Dental API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Opendental Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Opendental Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Open Dental — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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