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The Modern, All-in-One Alternative to Curve.
Switching from Curve? Gnathos adds Anna, the AI treatment coordinator, an AI morning brief, Retention Radar risk scores, insurance card photos that fill in the plan, timesheets, predictive inventory and much more, all in one login.
Lakeside Dental StudioTuesday · production through yesterday
Live✦
Morning huddle"12 patients expected today. 9% of slots booked over the next 3 days. $18,183 in open balances across 37 accounts. 288 patients are 6+ months overdue."
Total recoverable
$128,617
$116,241Unscheduled treatment
$1,860Lapsed recall
$10,516Open balances
Compare Gnathos with
Every Gnathos Feature, Side by Side with Curve.
Gnathos's 85 features across ten areas, and how Curve handles each.
Gnathos84 of 85 Included1 through partners
CurveIncludes 36 of Gnathos's 85 Features24 partial · 7 paid add-on or third party · 18 not found
| Feature | Gnathos | Curve |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule & Front Desk | ||
| Day, week and month schedule by operatory and provider | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| ASAP list: cancellations refilled automatically | ✓ | ◐Smart Fill texts matching patients when staff trigger it |
| Smart waitlist ranked by pending treatment value | ✓ | ◐Smart Fill targets pending treatment by procedure code; no value ranking found |
| Online booking with live availability | ✓ | ✓Curve GRO |
| Self-reschedule link for patients | ✓ | —Online booking can't change or cancel appointments |
| Check-in board: arrived, seated, done, live for the team | ✓ | ◐Appointment statuses |
| One-click counters: treatment due, x-rays due, recall overdue, insurance unverified | ✓ | ◐Lists and dashboards |
| Production goals shown on the schedule | ✓ | ◐Scheduled production shown on the schedule; no goal setting |
| Patient search with PHI hidden until hovered | ✓ | ✓Privacy mode hides patient names; hover to reveal |
| Clinical | ||
| Tooth chart with conditions, planned work and history | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| Perio charting | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| Voice perio charting | ✓ | $Perio+ (Curve Care+) monthly add-on, or Bola AI |
| Dictated note becomes a structured clinical note (AI) | ✓ | $Notes+ (Curve Care+), a monthly add-on |
| Note templates, typed or dictated from any page | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Sign and lock restricted to providers | ✓ | ◐Notes lock by role permission; no e-signature |
| Treatment plans with versions and acceptance tracking | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Patient-facing estimates with e-signature | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Treatment plan sender: plan, notes and quote by text, email or print | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Plan, visit notes and payment options by text, email or print |
| Plan Optimizer: sequencing across insurance years and benefits | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Treatment acceptance prediction per plan | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Imaging viewer opens from the chart | ✓Efficiency plan; cloud DICOM viewer built in | ✓Imaging built in |
| AI findings on x-rays | ◐Efficiency plan; Pearl and Overjet findings open in the chart; AI reads billed by the partner | $Partner integrations |
| E-prescribing with controlled substances (EPCS) | ✓Efficiency plan, through an e-prescribing partner | $ePrescribe add-on |
| Lab case tracking with a schedule alert when a case is not back | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Manual lab tags on appointments; no auto alert found |
| Medical alerts and allergies on every patient | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Patient Records & Portal | ||
| Full profile: demographics, insurance, plans, recall, history, activity log | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| Ledger with charges, payments, adjustments and statements | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| Documents and forms stored per patient | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Pre-visit intake forms by link | ✓ | ✓Curve forms |
| Patient portal: book, pay, sign, message, view records | ✓ | ◐Book, pay, sign and text by link; no chart access |
| Insurance card scanned from a photo | ✓Efficiency plan | —Card image scanned and saved; no plan fill-in found |
| Family linking with an unscheduled-family view | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Insurance & Claims | ||
| Real-time insurance eligibility | ✓Through a clearinghouse | ✓Basic checks included; code-level Eligibility+ is a paid add-on |
| Week-ahead verification page | ✓Efficiency plan | $Eligibility+ add-on checks automatically before visits |
| Claims built from completed procedures, reviewed before submission | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| AI claim scrubber: likely rejections and missing attachments flagged | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Basic claim validation |
| Electronic claims with attachments | ✓Through a clearinghouse; attachments on the Efficiency plan | ✓Unlimited eClaims with integrated attachments |
| ERAs post automatically | ✓Efficiency plan | $ERAs included; auto-posting is a paid service |
| Automatic claim status checks | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Statuses update automatically from clearinghouse and payer |
| Denied-claim alerts with the reason | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Claim reports |
| Payer portal link on every claim row | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Money | ||
| Card payments at the desk and online | ✓Through Payzli | ✓Curve Pay |
| Text-to-pay links | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Membership plans with auto-billing | ✓ | ✓Curve Memberships: automatic billing and renewal |
| Payment plans with consent and auto-charge | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Included |
| Financing partners recorded on the patient | ✓ | ◐Partner integrations |
| Loyalty points and rewards | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Daily financial check: collected, patient portion, insurance portion, deposit line | ✓ | ◐Daily reports |
| Card processing on the same bill as the software | ✓Payzli processing, on the Gnathos bill | ✓Curve Pay |
| Communication & Reputation | ||
| Two-way texting on your practice number | ✓ | ✓Curve GRO |
| Reminders, confirmations and recall campaigns | ✓ | ✓Curve GRO |
| Review requests sent the same way to every patient | ✓ | ✓Curve GRO |
| One inbox: text, email, chat and voicemail per patient | ✓ | ◐Curve GRO inbox |
| AI-drafted replies waiting for a person | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Incoming call opens the patient (call pop, click-to-call) | ✓Efficiency plan; works with your existing phone line | $Phone partners |
| Consent built in: STOP handling and frequency caps per patient | ✓ | ◐STOP handling standard; per-patient caps not found |
| Morning Huddle, Reports & AI | ||
| Morning huddle screen: yesterday, today, tomorrow | ✓ | ◐Dashboards |
| AI morning brief written from your own numbers | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Post the huddle to team chat in one click | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Standard reports: production, collections, AR aging, payer mix, utilization | ✓ | ✓Core feature |
| Ask Gnathos: plain-English questions answered from your data | ✓Efficiency plan | —Ask CurveAI answers software how-to questions, not questions about practice data |
| Daily AI insights | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Practice Health: benchmarks and overhead so owners see take-home | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Business analytics |
| Revenue Recovery | ||
| Dead-revenue ledger: dollars by category, ranked recovery queue | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Analytics; no ranked ledger |
| Automated recovery campaigns tracked in dollars | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Curve GRO campaigns; not tracked against a ledger |
| Anna: AI treatment coordinator drafting follow-ups from the chart | ✓Efficiency plan | —Curve GRO automates reminders; no AI coordinator found |
| Recall Outreach with one-click batches | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Curve GRO |
| Retention Radar: risk score per patient with reasons and a call script | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Payment recall on open balances with text-to-pay | ✓Efficiency plan | ✓Curve GRO payment reminders |
| Inactive patient reactivation | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Overdue-recare messages in Curve GRO; Legwork partner |
| Unscheduled treatment follow-ups | ✓Efficiency plan | ◐Curve GRO |
| Recovery mode: see your number on live data before you switch | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Team & Operations | ||
| Clock-in and timesheets; payroll export coming soon | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Tasks with due dates, self-added and assigned | ✓ | ✓Curve GRO Smart Action List |
| Team chat with patient tagging that opens the profile | ✓ | ◐Curve Chat for staff messaging; no patient tagging found |
| HR documents with expiry reminders | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Predictive inventory | ✓Efficiency plan | —Not found in published features |
| Roles and permissions; controls hidden, not greyed out | ✓ | ◐Roles and permissions |
| Audit log on every record access and change | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Migration, Security & Support | ||
| Live sync with your current system within minutes | ✓ | —Not found in published features |
| Migration and onboarding included, no setup fees | ✓ | ◐Data conversion is part of onboarding; implementation fees not published |
| Line-by-line reconciliation against your old system before go-live | ✓ | ◐Test conversion and sample checks before go-live; no line-by-line reconciliation found |
| Cloud-based, works from any device | ✓ | ✓Cloud-native |
| Encryption in transit and at rest | ✓ | ✓Included |
| Signed BAA available | ✓ | ✓Included |
✓ Included◐ Partial or basic$ Paid add-on or third party— Not found in published features
Competitor information comes from each vendor's public website, help center and documentation, checked September 25, 2026, with updates from October 27, 2026, and every cell says why it's marked the way it is. Add-ons and inclusions vary by plan and change often; if something here is out of date, email matt@carifyone.com and we'll correct it. Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, CareStack, Curve Dental and Archy are trademarks of their owners; Gnathos is not affiliated with them.
Switching from Curve, Plainly.
What You Keep
Every patient, appointment, procedure, plan, claim, ledger balance, note, perio chart and document. Reconciled line by line before go-live, so nothing is left behind.
What Changes
The whole practice runs in Gnathos, and your team learns one system.
How Long
Live sync within minutes of connecting, recovery mode from the first week, and a cutover that is scheduled and staffed once your numbers reconcile.
Ready to Make the Move?
Book a 15-minute demo and we'll map your migration from Curve on the call.