Why Odontra
Odontra is built around what happens when a patient walks in — and around how Indian clinics actually work: WhatsApp, UPI, three languages, and a doctor who often does several jobs at once.
Ten things to ask
We have not compared every product, so we will not claim to be the only one. Each answer below is about what Odontra does today — and every one can be shown live in a demo.
One guided visit
The front desk marks a patient arrived, the doctor sees “Here now” and starts the visit, and a bar follows the doctor across every screen: history, examination, X-ray, plan, consent, treatment, prescription, payment, next visit, finish. One big button for the next step; the small jobs open as pop-ups.
See the visit guide
Safety before work
Before treatment the doctor reads the allergies, conditions and medicines back to the patient and confirms them. Consent is checked for the procedure being done — a root canal is not covered by an old extraction form — and the missing form opens straight away.
See the safety checks
Next visit before they leave
The next visit is one tap — a week, a month, six months — with only open times offered and the reason filled from the work still to do. The patient is told on WhatsApp if they agreed to messages.
See how it books
Documents on WhatsApp
Finishing a visit can send the prescription, the receipt and the care sheet for what was done — as PDFs on WhatsApp, in one tap, to patients who agreed to messages.
See the messages
WhatsApp that works for you
Seven automatic messages — reminders, six-month recall, review requests, post-op check-ins, birthdays, payment reminders and aligner changes — each with its own switch, sent from the clinic’s own WhatsApp number in English, Hindi or Gujarati, only in clinic hours. Nothing goes out until the doctor switches it on.
See all seven
Voice charting in your language
Dictate in English, Hindi or Gujarati. Odontra drafts each finding, you tick what is right, and the chart and plan follow. It never suggests treatment, and names and phone numbers are removed before dictation reaches the AI.
See voice charting
Made for orthodontics too
An aligner course is set once — how many, when the first went in, days per aligner — and every change day is worked out, with a WhatsApp reminder. Braces patients can be grouped into a batch, and one tap gives the whole batch its appointments, one after another on free chairs.
See aligners and batches
A patient app under your name
Patients open the clinic’s own address on their phone, sign in with a WhatsApp code, and book, see plans, prescriptions and bills, view the X-rays you choose to share, and join a video consultation when you offer one. It carries your clinic’s name and logo — not ours.
See the patient app
UPI and money you can trust
A UPI link and QR on the bill, part-payments with a clear balance, patients who can report a UPI payment from their phone for you to confirm, and a payment taken back is recorded with who, when and why. Coins from referrals are used at the bill.
See billing
Your own private system
Every clinic gets its own private system: its own database, address, name and logo, with roles for each person, an activity trail, daily restore points and a full export in open formats. Nothing is shared with another clinic.
See how it is protectedStraight talk
We do not name other products and we do not say a rival cannot do something we have not checked. Take this page to any demo you book — ours or anyone else’s — and ask to see each of the ten. The answers will tell you more than any comparison table.
A walkthrough with your own schedule, chairs and treatments — and then a live demo clinic you can try yourself.
