# DPMS

**DPMS:** DPMS is an abbreviation trade press uses alongside DSO for dental practice management services companies, the firms that run the business side of affiliated practices; the same letters are also used for dental practice management software.

DPMS is an abbreviation trade press uses alongside DSO for dental practice management services companies, the firms that run the business side of affiliated practices; the same letters are also used for dental practice management software.

In the services sense, DPMS overlaps with DSO and MSO. In the software sense, a practice management system is the scheduling, charting and billing platform a practice runs on, and its data, such as collections vs. production and active patients, is central to due diligence.

Source: DDSIntel glossary, https://ddsintel.com/glossary/dpms

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