Dental Startup IT in Metro Atlanta: Opening a New Office in Cumming, Woodstock, Lawrenceville or McDonough
You spent your associate years in a Decatur practice; now your name is on a lease for a suite off GA-400 in Cumming. The contractor wants the data drop locations by Friday, and the drawings show operatories and a sterilization room but no equipment closet.
If you also want Legend Networking's service page for practices that are already open, it is the one for Atlanta dental IT services. This page is about the months between a signed lease and the first patient, for dentists opening a new dental office near Atlanta. Established offices across the region are covered in our Atlanta dental IT guide, and the full national build sequence lives in the national dental startup IT setup guide. What follows adds the parts a national checklist leaves out: which counties the new suites are going into, what a finished opening north of the city looked like, the record decisions to make before the first chart, what to do with computers someone else left behind, and how the office should behave on the first day the power blinks.
Dental startup IT in metro Atlanta is settled before the contractor closes the walls. Choose the practice software and imaging, decide where years of charts and X-rays will live, and agree who owns every account. Those three choices fix the cabling, the closet and the budget for a new office; everything after them is installation.
- Settle the practice software, imaging and account ownership before the contractor closes the walls; those choices fix the cabling, the closet and the budget.
- Since 2020, Forsyth, Cherokee, Dawson and Henry have grown fastest and Gwinnett added the most people (Census Vintage 2025).
- Make record decisions while the chart count is zero: where each part of the record lives, how it is exported, and whose name is on every account.
- Log, wipe or replace any inherited computer or network gear before it touches your network.
- Startup work is custom quoted; Legend's ongoing support after opening is "Starting at $360 per month".
In this guide
- Where are new dental offices opening around Atlanta, from Cumming and Woodstock to McDonough?
- What did a finished dental office opening in Roswell look like?
- When do the technology decisions for a new Atlanta-area dental office have to land?
- Which record decisions should a new Alpharetta or Johns Creek practice make before the first patient?
- Should a new office in Marietta or Lawrenceville reuse computers from a previous practice?
- What should a new McDonough or Peachtree City office be able to do on day one if the power or internet drops?
- Which dental software and imaging should a new Atlanta office plan in from the start?
- What does dental startup IT cost in metro Atlanta?
- What to ask your IT provider about opening a dental office near Atlanta
- Sources
- Frequently asked questions
- The bottom line
Where are new dental offices opening around Atlanta, from Cumming and Woodstock to McDonough?
Since 2020, growth has been fastest in the northern ring (Forsyth, Cherokee, Dawson) and in Henry to the south, while Gwinnett added the most people. The county does not change what new dental practice technology must do; it changes the questions about the suite itself: a new shell or an older space, which carriers reach it, and who controls the building.
The table uses the U.S. Census Bureau's county estimates. The right-hand column is not a finding about any county; it is the question that county's pattern of growth tends to raise when a dentist walks a suite there. Check each one against your own address.
| County | Growth since the April 2020 base | Growth in the latest year (to July 2025) | Population, July 2025 | Places | Question to settle about the suite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forsyth | 12.5%, or 31,520 more people | 1.44%, or 4,008 more people | 282,805 | Cumming | If the suite is a new shell with nothing above the ceiling, who builds the pathway from the building's telecom entry to your closet, and is it on the drawings? |
| Cherokee | 12.2%, or 32,658 more people | 1.78%, or 5,243 more people | 299,273 | Woodstock, Canton | Which wired carriers will confirm service at this exact address in writing before your opening date is set in the lease? |
| Henry | 10.1%, or 24,236 more people | 1.90%, or 4,950 more people | 264,922 | McDonough, Stockbridge | Where does the closet sit relative to exterior walls, roof drains and anything that could leak in a heavy storm? |
| Gwinnett | 6.3%, or 60,714 more people | 0.82%, or 8,235 more people | 1,018,099 | Lawrenceville, Duluth, Suwanee | In a retail or office center, does the previous tenant's cabling stay, and will anyone test and label it before you rely on it? |
| Fulton | 3.0%, or 32,232 more people | 0.76%, or 8,323 more people | 1,098,791 | Roswell, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Sandy Springs | If the space was a medical or dental office before, what was left in the walls, the ceiling and the closet, and who owns it now? |
| Cobb | 3.6%, or 27,257 more people | 0.57%, or 4,466 more people | 793,345 | Marietta, Kennesaw, Smyrna | Which electric utility serves the building, and who on your team calls them about service at the suite? |
| Dawson | 32.0% | 4.18% | 35,365 | north of Forsyth | In a county this size, how many wired carriers actually reach the site, and is a second path realistic? |
| Fayette | 5.0%, or 5,963 more people | 0.32%, or 405 more people | 125,156 | Peachtree City, Fayetteville | Can installers and equipment deliveries get after-hours access to the building in the final weeks before opening? |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates, county totals file co-est2025-alldata and release CB26-56 (March 26, 2026); estimates base April 1, 2020, and July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025; pulled 2026-10-23. Dawson's percentages are from the same file.
Three readings matter for a startup. First, the latest year does not repeat the five-year story: from July 2024 to July 2025, Henry (+1.90%) and Cherokee (+1.78%) grew faster than Forsyth (+1.44%), so a southern suite in McDonough or Stockbridge is not a bet against the trend. Second, the large counties still add the most people: Gwinnett had the largest gain since 2020. Third, the metro as a whole, the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell area, added 61,953 people in the latest year, the third-largest numeric gain of any U.S. metro in the Census release.
Two other numbers frame who is opening these offices. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated about 1,710 general dentists employed in the Atlanta metro in May 2025, a count of people employed, not of practices. And the state's dental school is not in Atlanta: the Dental College of Georgia, which Augusta University describes as "the state of Georgia's sole dental college", is in Augusta, not in the metro where these suites are being built.
None of this tells you which county to choose. It tells you which questions to bring to the walk-through. A Cumming shell and a Sandy Springs second-generation suite can need very different cabling work, and the lease is the last point at which you can ask the landlord to carry some of it.
What did a finished dental office opening in Roswell look like?
FLOSS Dental in Roswell, a Fulton County suburb north of Atlanta, is Legend's one documented Georgia project. A July 2026 update on Legend's /work page marks the practice's completed installation and opening, with photos of the team, the imaging room and the finished interior, and files it under technology installation.
You can see the page at FLOSS Dental in Roswell. It is a useful reference for one reason: it shows the end state a startup is working toward, an imaging room and a team in a finished office, in a suburb that sits inside the growth pattern the table above describes.
It is just as important to say what the page does not tell you. It does not list the systems installed, the software the practice chose, the build schedule or the cost, so this article does not either. Nothing here should be read as a claim about what FLOSS Dental runs today or who supports it. If you want to know how an Alpharetta or Johns Creek opening was sequenced, ask the IT provider you are interviewing to walk you through one of their own openings, with the documents they can show.
What Legend can state about startups in general is limited to its published facts. Legend Networking has completed 1,500+ dental startup buildouts, has "Served over 3,500 practices since 2004", and has 22+ years in dental IT (since 2004). On Google the company shows a 4.8 rating · 173 Google reviews. Legend is headquartered in Dallas.
For a dentist in Cumming or McDonough, the practical lesson from FLOSS is not a feature list. It is that an opening is a finished room with working imaging and a team ready to see patients, and every decision in the rest of this page is measured against that day.
When do the technology decisions for a new Atlanta-area dental office have to land?
Each technology decision has to be made before the construction stage that would make it expensive to change. Software and imaging choices belong before the drawings are final, cabling before the walls close, and accounts, backups and testing before the first patient. The calendar is your contractor's; the order below is the part you control.
The table maps the stages of a typical tenant finish-out to the technology question that must be answered by then. It deliberately gives no durations: permit, construction and carrier timelines vary by jurisdiction, landlord and address, and your contractor's schedule is the only one to plan around.
| Build stage | What the contractor is doing | What the technology plan must have settled by the end of it | What a late answer usually means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lease negotiation | Nothing yet; the landlord's work letter is being written | Who pays for the telecom pathway, conduit and closet; whether you get after-hours access; which carriers serve the address | The cost of reaching your suite falls to you after signing |
| Design drawings | Architect places rooms, casework and fixtures | Practice software (cloud or server), imaging brands and sensor models, where the closet goes, how many operatories are wired now versus later | Rooms sized without the equipment that has to live in them |
| Walls open (rough-in) | Framing, electrical, plumbing, low-voltage pathways | Every drop location, the closet's power and ventilation, the cabling contractor's test plan | Opening finished drywall to add cable |
| Walls closed, finishes | Drywall, paint, flooring, ceilings | Cable labeled and tested; equipment ordered against the imaging vendor's site requirements | Equipment arrives to a room that is not ready for it |
| Systems installed | Final fixtures; the space is mostly quiet | Workstations, imaging, phones, internet, Microsoft 365 and practice software installed; admin accounts created in the practice's name | Accounts owned by whoever happened to set them up |
| Final weeks | Punch list, inspections, deliveries | Backup running and a restore tested; staff logins and training on the real system; the outage plan on paper | Opening day becomes the first test of everything |
| First month open | Contractor has left | Ongoing support in place; the first restore check after real patient data exists; the open-items list closed | Small faults become habits nobody reports |
Startup work is custom quoted, because two suites in the same shopping center can need very different work. If you are comparing providers for the build itself, dental startup IT services from Legend describes the commercial side, and the national guide linked above runs the full step-by-step order.
Who hands what to whom
A startup has more parties than a working office, and most technology delays happen between them rather than inside any one of them. Use this as a roles list, not a schedule.
| Party | What they usually hand over | What the technology plan needs from them |
|---|---|---|
| Landlord | Work letter, building telecom entry, rules for roof and riser access | Where the carriers come in, whether conduit reaches the suite, after-hours access for installers |
| General contractor | The schedule and the drawings | A date by which drops must be marked, and a walk-through before drywall |
| Low-voltage or cabling contractor | Cable runs, labels and test results | A labeled drawing and test results the practice keeps |
| Equipment dealer | Chairs, delivery units, sometimes imaging | Site requirements for each imaging device, delivered early enough to wire for them |
| Software and imaging vendors | Licenses, installation and training | Workstation and server requirements in writing, and who installs what |
| Carrier (internet and phones) | Circuit, modem or router, phone numbers | A confirmed install date and the name of the person who will chase it |
| Electric utility | Service to the building | Who calls about service at the suite, and the outage number saved where staff can find it |
| Attorney and accountant | Lease, entity, purchase agreements | Answers on record ownership, record keeping and any equipment you take over |
| IT provider | Network, workstations, accounts, backup, support | Every item above, gathered into one plan with dates |
Which record decisions should a new Alpharetta or Johns Creek practice make before the first patient?
Settle four things while the chart count is still zero: which system holds each part of the record, how a chart stays readable years after the patient stops coming, how a full copy goes out when a patient or another dentist asks for it, and whose name is on the accounts. Ask your attorney how long each record has to be kept.
A startup has an advantage here that an established office does not: nothing has been created yet, so the plan can be right from the first chart instead of retrofitted. How long Georgia expects you to keep records, and what the state expects if data is ever exposed, are questions for your attorney or compliance advisor. The technology plan's job is simpler: whatever you buy in the next few months has to keep records readable, restorable and exportable for longer than the life of the hardware it runs on.
Records decisions before the first chart
| ☐ | Decision | Why it matters | Who signs it off before opening |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☐ | Name the system that will hold the treatment record (practice software) and the one that will hold images (imaging software), and write both down | Everyone knows where the record lives on day one | Dentist-owner |
| ☐ | Confirm the backup covers both systems, including the imaging store, and keeps a copy offsite | A backup that skips the imaging store skips half the chart | IT provider, checked by the owner |
| ☐ | Decide how a record will still be readable if you change software in year four or year eight: export format, who holds it, where it is kept | Old images have to open after the software that made them is gone | Dentist-owner with the IT provider |
| ☐ | Run a test export before opening: one test patient's complete record, images included, delivered as you would send it to another provider | The first real request should not be the first try | Office manager |
| ☐ | Create every administrator account (practice software, imaging, Microsoft 365, domain, backup console, carrier portals) in the practice's name, with the owner holding the recovery details | The practice, not a contractor, controls its own systems | Dentist-owner |
| ☐ | If sterilization logs will be digital, decide where they live and confirm they are in the backup | Logs kept on one laptop are lost with the laptop | Clinical lead |
| ☐ | Start a device log for anything used or inherited: what it held, how it was cleared, by whom | See the next section | Office manager |
| ☐ | Write down who can restore data, and test one restore after real patient data exists | A restore nobody has tried is a hope, not a plan | IT provider and owner |
| ☐ | Save the electric utility's outage number and the carrier's repair number where every staff member can find them | See the outage section | Office manager |
| ☐ | Ask your attorney or compliance advisor how long you must keep each kind of record, and give the answer to your IT provider | The retention setting in the backup should match their answer | Dentist-owner |
The table is a planning tool, not a compliance program. It gives an Atlanta-area startup a written record of decisions made before opening, which is the record you will want when someone asks in year three where the imaging from opening week lives.
Should a new office in Marietta or Lawrenceville reuse computers from a previous practice?
Only once each device is accounted for and cleared. A used computer still holds the last owner's patients until someone wipes it properly, and network gear left in a ceiling may still carry someone else's settings. Put every inherited device in a log, and clear or replace it, before it touches your network.
Inherited equipment turns up in more ways than a first-time owner expects. A Sandy Springs or Duluth suite that was a medical office may still have a switch in the ceiling and a rack in a closet. A dentist buying a retiring colleague's practice in Marietta may be offered the workstations, the sensor computers and the server as part of the sale. Each of those devices can hold patient information that belongs to someone else's practice.
Who is responsible for the data on a seller's drives, and when that responsibility passes, belongs in the purchase agreement and with your attorney. For the technology plan, the useful habit is a short log. It costs nothing, it protects the practice that came before you, and it is the evidence you want if a question comes up later.
Wipe-and-handover log for inherited equipment
| What to record | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Device type, make and serial number | Ties every later step to one physical machine |
| Whose records it held, and whether the previous owner kept a copy | The previous owner may still need that data; clearing the only copy is a problem for them and for you |
| Method used: physically destroyed, erased with a named tool, or encrypted and the key discarded | Shows the data was made unreadable, not just deleted |
| Who performed it, and the date | One accountable name, not "the IT person" |
| Where the cleared device went: reused, sold, recycled | You know where every machine ended up |
| Signature or written confirmation from the previous owner where data belonged to them | Shows the handover was agreed, not assumed |
A practical rule follows from the log: if nobody can tell you what a device held or how it was cleared, treat it as untrusted. A sensible default is to replace inherited network gear (switches, routers, wireless access points) unless someone can vouch for it, and to reuse inherited workstations only after a full wipe and a fresh operating system install. Imaging sensors and their computers deserve their own conversation with the imaging vendor, because the software, drivers and calibration matter as much as the data.
The same thinking applies to used equipment bought from a reseller. Ask where it came from and whether it was cleared, and put the answer in the same log.
What should a new McDonough or Peachtree City office be able to do on day one if the power or internet drops?
On opening day the office should keep seeing patients through a short power blink, keep its records safe through a longer outage, and know who calls whom when the internet circuit fails. That takes a battery on the closet and key workstations, a tested offsite copy, call forwarding agreed with the carrier, and a one-page plan on the wall.
Startups tend to plan the opening for a sunny Tuesday. Metro Atlanta's weather does not cooperate with that plan. Summer thunderstorms bring down trees on power lines, winter ice can close roads, tropical rain reaches north Georgia some autumns, and tornado warnings come with little notice. A server, a switch or an imaging computer that loses power for a moment can corrupt data or take minutes to come back. A battery unit (UPS) on the closet equipment and the workstations that matter is how the office rides through those moments and shuts down cleanly if the outage lasts.
| What drops | What the office should still be able to do | What has to exist before opening |
|---|---|---|
| A momentary power blink | Keep the server, network and imaging computers running without a restart | UPS units on closet equipment and key workstations, sized for clean shutdown |
| A longer power outage | Shut systems down cleanly, protect the data, tell patients | UPS with automatic shutdown set up; the outage number saved; a staff call list |
| The internet circuit fails | Keep working on local systems or a backup connection; keep the phones answered | A decision on a second connection; call forwarding agreed with the carrier; cloud software access tested from a phone hotspot |
| Equipment in the closet fails | Restore the data to working hardware | A tested offsite copy and a named person who can start the restore |
| Severe weather warning during clinic hours | Get people safe first, then shut down in order | A one-page plan by the front desk that says who does what |
Two points sit outside the table. First, call forwarding is a question for your carrier, not a setting you can assume: ask before opening how calls reach a mobile phone if the office line or internet is down. Second, an offsite copy only counts once a restore has been tested; whoever provides yours, see a restore with your own data before you rely on it. Once you are open, rain, ice and tornado warnings each get their own playbook in the Atlanta dental office storm and power plan; the service behind the offsite copy is described under dental backup and recovery.
Which dental software and imaging should a new Atlanta office plan in from the start?
Choose the practice management software and the imaging platform before the drawings are final, because they decide whether you need a server, where it sits and how each operatory is wired. Legend supports the IT environment of Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental and Archy, and of DEXIS, Vatech, Carestream, Planmeca/Romexis and Dolphin Imaging.
Read the lists as coverage, not advice: pick the software your clinical team wants and your business case supports, then let the technology plan follow the choice:
- A cloud practice platform such as Archy shifts the practice record off a server in the closet, but not the need for a reliable internet connection, a well-built network, secured workstations and a plan for the day the connection fails. Imaging often still needs local storage and processing.
- A server-based platform such as Dentrix, Eaglesoft or Open Dental installed on site needs a closet with power, ventilation, a battery and room for the server and backup equipment, and it puts the long-term record question squarely on the backup design.
- Imaging (intraoral sensors, panoramic and cone-beam units, intraoral cameras) has its own computer, driver and storage requirements, set by the imaging vendor. Ask for them in writing before the walls close.
- Microsoft 365 usually carries email, documents and the practice's identities. Create the tenant in the practice's name, with the owner holding the global administrator recovery details.
Who calls a software or imaging vendor when something breaks is something to settle in the agreement rather than assume. Our guide to dental software and imaging support in Atlanta shows which layer usually fails for each of those systems once you are open, and dental office network setup is worth reading before the cabling walk-through.
A short decision guide for the drawings stage:
- If the chosen practice software is cloud-hosted and imaging stores locally, plan a small closet for network, imaging storage and backup, with a battery.
- If the practice software runs on a server, plan the closet around the server, its backup and its battery, and confirm the closet's power and cooling with the contractor.
- If you are not sure yet, plan the closet as if a server will be there. An unused shelf is cheaper than a closet rebuilt after opening.
- Either way, ask each imaging vendor for its site requirements per device and give them to the contractor before rough-in.
What does dental startup IT cost in metro Atlanta?
Startup technology is custom quoted, because the suite, the equipment choices and the software decide the work. After opening, Legend's published figure for ongoing support is "Starting at $360 per month". Anyone who gives you a total for an Atlanta opening without seeing your drawings is guessing, so ask for a quote built on your suite.
Two suites in the same Gwinnett center can differ by a closet, a pathway and a dozen cable runs. What a startup can do is separate the costs into the parts that behave differently, and ask every provider to price each one on its own line:
| Cost type | When it lands | What drives it |
|---|---|---|
| Build-phase IT work (planning, network, installation) | Before opening | Suite condition, number of rooms wired, server or cloud, imaging count |
| Hardware (workstations, network equipment, battery units, server if any) | Ordered during finishes | Quantities and models chosen |
| Cabling | Walls open | Number of drops, pathway difficulty, what can be reused |
| Software licensing (practice, imaging, Microsoft 365) | Before installation | The vendors and seats chosen, usually billed by the vendor |
| Ongoing support | From opening | Legend: Starting at $360 per month |
| Backup | From opening | Storage needed and how long copies are kept |
For a fuller budgeting method, read how to budget for startup technology.
What happens after the ribbon is cut
The startup quote ends when the office opens; support does not. Legend runs a helpdesk staffed 24/7 at 1-800-794-1588 and 24/7 monitoring, with in-house engineers; no outsourced first-level triage. How a visit to your address is arranged once you are open is a question to ask any provider before you sign rather than an assumption to make. When the practice is open and running, Legend's page for a dental IT company in Atlanta covers ongoing support across the metro.
What to ask your IT provider about opening a dental office near Atlanta
Ask these before you sign a startup agreement, and keep the answers in writing. They are written for a suite in the counties around Atlanta, and they track the decisions above in the order you will meet them.
- Which of our decisions do you need before the architect's drawings are final, and what happens to the plan if we change software after that?
- Have you seen our suite, or a set of drawings for it, and what would you change about where the closet sits?
- Which carriers have confirmed service at our exact address in writing, and who is responsible for chasing the install date?
- What does our equipment do during the seconds the power blinks, and what shuts down first if it stays off?
- Where will our treatment records and our images live, and how will you show us they can still be read years after a patient's last visit?
- How would we deliver a complete record, images included, to another provider, and can we test that before opening?
- If we keep any equipment from the previous tenant or the dentist we are buying from, who clears it, by which method, and who signs the log?
- Who will hold the administrator accounts for the practice software, imaging, Microsoft 365, our domain and the backup console on opening day, and how do they pass to us?
- Where does the offsite copy live, and when will we watch the first restore with our own data?
- Which parts of the startup quote are custom, which items are priced on their own, and what will we pay each month once we open?
- How is a visit to our address arranged once we are open, and what is handled remotely?
- Which of our software and imaging products do you support the IT environment for, and who calls the vendor when something breaks?
A provider who answers the first six well has probably done this before. The last six tell you how the relationship will feel after the contractor leaves.
Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau, release CB26-56, March 26, 2026, Vintage 2025 metro, micro and county estimates: census.gov (accessed 2026-10-23)
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county totals file co-est2025-alldata: census.gov file (accessed 2026-10-23)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, Dentists, General, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell MSA, May 2025: BLS data series (accessed 2026-10-23)
- Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University, About us: augusta.edu (accessed 2026-10-23)
Nothing on this page is legal advice. For record keeping and data rules, ask your attorney or compliance advisor.
Frequently asked questions
When should a new dental practice in Cumming bring in its IT provider?
Bring the IT provider in while the architect's drawings can still change, ideally before the lease's work letter is final. That is when the closet location, the telecom pathway and the operatory wiring are cheap to decide. In a new Cumming shell, waiting until the walls are closed turns each of those decisions into rework, and the opening date in the lease does not move to suit it.
Is Cumming, Woodstock or McDonough the faster-growing place to open a dental office?
By percentage from the April 2020 base to July 2025, Dawson (+32.0%), Forsyth (+12.5%), Cherokee (+12.2%) and Henry (+10.1%) led the counties in this guide, per Census Vintage 2025 estimates. Gwinnett added the most people (+60,714). In the latest year, Henry and Cherokee grew faster than Forsyth, so suites in McDonough and Woodstock are part of the same trend.
Is it safe to keep the computers the previous tenant left in our Duluth suite?
Not until each device is accounted for and cleared. A used computer can still hold another practice's patient data, and network gear can carry someone else's settings. Log each device, what it held, how it was cleared and by whom. Network gear nobody can vouch for is often cheaper to replace than to verify, and your attorney should cover data on a seller's drives in the purchase agreement.
Can a new dental practice in Woodstock open without a server in the closet?
Often, if the practice software is cloud-hosted, such as Archy. The office still needs a dependable internet connection, a well-built network, secured workstations and a plan for when the connection fails, and imaging frequently stores data locally. If the software decision is not final by the drawings stage, plan the closet as if a server will be there; an empty shelf costs less than a rebuilt closet.
How much does dental startup IT cost for a new office near Atlanta?
Startup work is custom quoted, because the suite, the equipment and the software choices decide the work. After opening day, Legend lists ongoing support as "Starting at $360 per month". Ask every provider to price build work, hardware, cabling, licensing and backup on separate lines for your actual suite, so two quotes for the same opening can be compared fairly.
Who should own the Microsoft 365 and software accounts for a new Johns Creek practice?
The practice should. Create every administrator account for the practice software, imaging, Microsoft 365, the domain and the backup console in the practice's name, with the owner holding the recovery details. Your IT provider can hold working access to administer them. If a contractor or vendor sets up an account in its own name during the build, ask for it to be moved before opening.
What did Legend do for FLOSS Dental in Roswell?
The July 2026 /work update records that Legend completed the installation and the practice opened in Roswell, north of Atlanta; its photos show the team, the imaging room and the finished space, under the heading technology installation. That page names no systems, so this guide names none either. It is Legend's one documented Georgia project so far.
What should be working before the first patient is seated at a new Atlanta-area office?
Practice software and imaging installed and tested on the real workstations; every administrator account created in the practice's name; a backup running with one restore tested; battery units on the closet and key workstations; the phone and internet failure plan agreed with the carrier; and a test export of one patient's complete record, images included, so the first real request is not the first try.
The bottom line
If your lease is signed or close to it, the cheapest time to get the technology right is now, before the drywall. We invite you to request a Free Dental IT Assessment and bring what you have: the lease's work letter, the latest drawings, and the list of practice software and imaging you are weighing.

