Important Announcement about LocalMed Services
Effective November 15th, 2025, LocalMed will be retired and we will be moving all online scheduling functionality into our unified Dental Intelligence platform within our Engagement module. With Engagement, you’ll get everything you love about LocalMed, plus powerful new tools such as:
Your next steps:
Already using Engagement? You should have received communication on how to schedule a transition session with our Online Scheduling Transition team. Need assistance? Contact Support.
Not on Engagement yet? To continue scheduling online after November 15, learn more about Dental Intelligence Online Scheduling and schedule time with an Account Manager.
Blockouts
When you add Blockouts in Open Dental, the days / times these are added to will NOT show as available to patients who are attempting to schedule through LocalMed
Note: Adding "!!" immediately after the name of a blockout (not in the notes) tells LocalMed to ignore that the block is there.
Examples of blockouts are shown below. The purple, red, and yellow blocks are blockouts:
Create a Blockout / Scheduling Block in Open Dental
Right click in the schedule and select Add Blockout
Here, you can configure the blockout time, type, and operatory the blockout goes in
Click OK and it will produce a blockout similar to this one:
Blockout Cut-Copy-Paste
Refer to the OpenDental article to learn more about this topic.