Dental IT Support In Detroit, Michigan
Michigan holds dentists to a ten-year record retention rule — the longest in our service area. Detroit practices get dental-only engineers who build backups around that requirement, not around a generic template.
How We Actually Cover Detroit
Detroit is about three hours from our Richfield office via the Turnpike and I-75. It is a remote-first market for us, with on-site visits scheduled for buildouts, hardware and projects — we say that plainly rather than implying a Michigan presence we do not have.
The reason Michigan practices work with us anyway usually comes down to retention. Michigan requires a dentist to keep a treatment record for at least ten years after the last service, which is longer than Ohio or Pennsylvania and long enough that the requirement stops being about storage and starts being about whether a decade-old record is still readable. That is an IT problem, and it is one most generalist providers have never thought about.
Detroit From Our Office
What Makes Detroit Different
University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry
Detroit Mercy’s dental school sits on the Corktown campus and runs 190 clinical operatories, seeing roughly 18,500 patients and more than 120,000 procedures a year — an operation larger than most hospital dental departments. Michigan’s other dental school, the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, is about 43 miles away in Ann Arbor, making the Detroit metro unusual in having one dental school in the city proper and a second within an hour.
dental.udmercy.edu · dent.umich.edu
Detroit District Dental Society
Established in 1895, the Detroit District Dental Society serves Wayne and Monroe counties as the local component of the Michigan Dental Association and the ADA.
detroitdentalsociety.org
Michigan’s ten-year rule changes the IT brief
MCL 333.16644 requires a dentist to retain a treatment record for at least ten years after the last service. The seven-year figure that circulates comes from MCL 333.16213, the general health-professional rule, which yields to the longer dentist-specific statute — the Michigan Dental Association confirms ten. Ten years spans practice management migrations, imaging format changes, and vendor acquisitions, so retention here has to be designed for restorability rather than storage alone.
MCL § 333.16644 · Michigan Dental Association
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