Curve Dental has appointed Nat Harrison as senior vice president of marketing. The Alpharetta, Georgia, company sells AI-powered, cloud-native dental practice management software. Harrison joins as Curve backs its platform with a $200 million R&D commitment to expand native AI and integrated capabilities. The software serves more than 6,000 practice locations in the US and Canada. Harrison was most recently vice president of B2B marketing at Mindbody. Before that, he led acquisition and retention marketing for Wayfair Professional, helping scale Wayfair's B2B business beyond $2 billion in revenue. He has also founded technology ventures and worked as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. "Nat combines entrepreneurial thinking with the discipline to build at scale," said chief executive officer Dave Cormack.

7 reasons why Practice by Numbers is a strong integration choice for Curve Dental. Already using Curve Dental? Explore seven reasons Practice by Numbers could be a valuable addition to your practice management setup... If Curve Dental is at the center of your practice operations, choosing the right tools to work alongside it is just as important as the system itself. The goal isn't to replace what's already working, but to make better use of the information and workflows your practice relies on every day. That is where Practice by Numbers (PbN) comes in. By integrating with Curve Dental, PbN helps practices turn existing information into clearer insights and more actionable decisions. * Practice by Numbers works alongside Curve Dental and adds an analytics and intelligence layer. * PbN turns PMS data into actionable insights: Connected patient, appointment, ledger, and financial data powers KPIs and reporting in PbN. * Revenue IQ connects performance data with patient-level follow-up, recall, treatment, and revenue workflows. * Huddle brings together today's appointments, yesterday's performance, production, collections, patient priorities, and doctor and hygiene information. * Tasks help teams assign ownership and follow through, while Patient Notes and Task Notes can be written back to Curve Dental. * Patients, appointments, and ledger entries sync incrementally every 60 minutes, with other data refreshed through the daily full sync. * PbN clearly documents what Curve Dental's API supports and where certain data remains available only in Curve Dental. PbN integrates with Curve Dental and adds a performance and operations layer around the practice's existing data. Instead of treating reports as a month-end exercise, the team can use connected information to monitor performance, find revenue opportunities, prepare for the day, and assign follow-up work. Here are seven reasons PbN is a compelling choice for a dental practice looking to get more from Curve Dental. 1. PbN helps you get more from Curve Dental with an analytics layer. Curve Dental remains the place where the team manages core practice activity. PbN works alongside it. That distinction matters because a useful integration should strengthen the practice's existing workflow, not force an unnecessary system change. PbN receives core information from Curve Dental, including patient data, appointments, and ledger activity. That connected data powers the PbN experience while the practice continues to use Curve Dental for its established PMS workflows. For a practice evaluating dental analytics software, this reduces the strategic question to a practical one: can the new platform turn PMS data into better action? With PbN, the answer is yes. PbN adds analytics, patient-level visibility, revenue workflows, huddle reporting, and task management around the data coming from Curve Dental. 2. It converts financial activity into a clearer operating view. Production, adjustments, collections, accounts receivable, and patient balances are not merely accounting outputs. Together, they show where the practice is performing well and where attention is needed. PbN uses financial information from Curve Dental for reporting and KPIs. The integration supports the core financial visibility a practice needs to review production, adjustments, and collections. PbN's Practice IQ then gives leaders and teams a more focused way to monitor performance rather than manually assembling a story from separate reports. When validating the numbers, PbN's guidance maps the relevant Curve Hero Financial Reports to the corresponding PbN metrics: Production Summary for production, Adjustment Summary for adjustments, Collection Summary for collections, and Responsible Party Aging Summary for accounts receivable. 3. It connects reporting to revenue action. A dashboard is useful only if it changes what someone does next. Data | Insight | Action Revenue IQ in PbN helps teams move from "Here is the number" to "Here are the patients and opportunities behind it." Practices can use connected data to support recall, treatment follow-up, patient tracking, and revenue-related workflows. Instead of ending the conversation at a percentage or dollar amount, the team can identify the follow-up activity required. This is a central reason PbN is a strong fit for Curve Dental users: it brings analytics and execution closer together. 4. It gives the morning huddle better inputs. A productive morning huddle should take minutes, not require someone to spend the first part of the morning building a report. PbN Huddle is supported for Curve Dental practices. With the core integration active, the team can use connected information to prepare for the day, review priorities, and focus attention on the patients or performance areas that require action. The result is a more consistent daily huddle where your team reviews today's appointments, yesterday's performance, production, collections, patient priorities, and doctor and hygiene information before aligning on what needs attention and taking action. 5. It supports task ownership inside the same performance layer. The gap between insight and outcome is usually ownership. Everyone can notice an overdue opportunity; results improve when one person is responsible for the next step. Tasks are part of the core PbN functionality available with the Curve Dental integration. Patient Notes and Task Notes created in PbN can also be written back to the patient's Notes section in Curve Dental. They appear as untagged notes, allowing each office to categorize them according to its own workflow. That writeback capability helps reduce duplicate documentation while maintaining control over how notes are organized in Curve Dental. 6. It uses a predictable sync schedule. For Curve Dental, PbN runs an incremental sync every 60 minutes for patients, appointments, and ledger entries. A full sync runs once daily at midnight in the practice's PMS time zone for other data. This schedule gives teams a clear expectation for when updates will appear. Appointment or ledger changes will typically be visible after the next hourly incremental sync, while information outside that incremental set refreshes through the daily full sync. PbN also recommends running the AR Daily Sync each morning before comparing financial results. That sync updates production, adjustments, collections, accounts receivable, and patient balances for the prior day. 7. It is transparent about api-based data depth. Good integration decisions require clarity, not vague promises. PbN documents the areas where Curve Dental's currently available API data affects what can be displayed. For example, remaining insurance benefits, payment-method detail, referral-source data, documents, recall types, and certain clinical details are not currently exposed through the Curve Dental API. Core KPIs, production, collections, Revenue IQ, patient syncing, and practice reporting continue to function. This transparency is valuable during evaluation. A practice can assess the integration based on what it needs today, understand the few areas that remain in Curve Dental, and configure workflows accordingly. A practical 3-step evaluation. Before choosing any Curve Dental integration, ask three questions: 1. Does it turn core PMS data into understandable performance signals? 2. Can the team move from those signals to patient-level or task-level action? 3. Are sync behavior and data availability explained clearly enough to set realistic expectations? PbN answers all three. It adds Practice IQ, Revenue IQ, Huddle, Tasks, patient tracking, and reporting around the information already generated in Curve Dental. The takeaway for Curve Dental practices. The best Curve Dental integration is not necessarily the one with the most features. It's the one that gives your team actionable visibility and tools within what the integration supports. It helps your team see what is happening, decide what matters, and take action while keeping the PMS workflow it already trusts in place. Practice by Numbers gives Curve Dental practices that operating layer. It adds clearer analytics and revenue workflows, supports day-to-day accountability, and helps your team put the information already available to work. With clear documentation of how the integration works, your team can understand what it supports and use it with confidence alongside Curve Dental. Frequently Asked Questions Do I need to replace Curve Dental to use Practice by Numbers? No. Practice by Numbers works alongside Curve Dental, allowing your team to continue using its existing practice management system. How can I decide whether Practice by Numbers is right for my Curve Dental practice? What should I look for when choosing software to complement Curve Dental?