Dolphin Management API
Dolphin Management has an API that replaced its retired SDK, but there is no public API documentation and no developer portal. Partners are enrolled by Dolphin staff and approved per practice inside AnywhereDolphin, leaving customers no self serve route to their own data.
Frequently asked questions
Dolphin Management scores F on Supergood's API Report Card. Dolphin Management has an API that replaced its retired SDK, but there is no public API documentation and no developer portal. Partners are enrolled by Dolphin staff and approved per practice inside AnywhereDolphin, leaving customers no self serve route to their own data.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
Dolphin Management is the orthodontic practice management system from Dolphin Imaging and Management Solutions, a Patterson Dental subsidiary in Chatsworth, California.
Orthodontic, oral and maxillofacial surgery and pediatric dental specialists worldwide, with particular strength in imaging heavy and multi location practices. Front desk staff schedule from templates and track patients through the office with the GPS view, treatment coordinators present proposals and fee quotes, clinicians chart on treatment cards and pull up Dolphin Imaging records and ceph analyses, and billing staff file claims through DentalXChange or CDAnet and post payments from Patterson Pay, OrthoBanc or Vanco.
No current practice count is published; Patterson reported about $13 million in annual revenue when it bought Dolphin in 2009 (https://orthodonticproductsonline.com/industry-news/company-news/patterson-acquires-dolphin-2009-01-12-05/), Tracxn lists 81 employees in 2026 (https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dolphin-imaging/__8xwfcK9PLu2hZAA0JZEb1n1TXQ471QEfPZi1wK8fWRc), and third party comparisons describe Dolphin as the standard in residency programs and one of the three dominant orthodontic platforms (https://orthia.io/blog/cloud9-vs-dolphin-vs-ortho2).
Dolphin Management stores patient demographics and households, referral sources, the multi office schedule and in office patient flow, treatment cards and clinical notes, proposals, contracts, payment plans and aging ledgers, insurance claims and remittances, and letters and questionnaires, all in a SQL Server database that also links to the cephalometric, photographic and 3D records in Dolphin Imaging.
Dolphin was founded in 1988 as an imaging company and added practice management later; Patterson acquired both LLCs in January 2009.
Weave reports a 500 server error from an API routing exception in early Dolphin 11.3 builds, fixed only by upgrading workstations to 11.4. Weave documents 404 'No listeners connected' errors whenever the on premise Dolphin environment drops its connection to the AnywhereDolphin cloud, requiring Dolphin Support to reset it. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Ortho2, Cloud 9 (Planet DDS), topsOrtho, Carestream Dental (Sensei), Greyfinch. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Not that we could find. As of October 2026 there is no official Dolphin Management MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. Dolphin Management doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.