🦷 Dental Clinic Management System – Backend (TypeScript)

A robust and scalable backend system for managing a dental clinic using:

• TypeScript
• Express.js
• PostgreSQL
• Sequelize ORM (with TypeScript support)
• Clean, modular architecture

Ideal for managing patients, appointments, treatments, inventory, and users in a dental clinic environment.

🧱 Project Goal

Build a solid backend system to manage typical operations of a dental clinic, including:

• User registration and authentication
• Patient management
• Appointment scheduling and tracking
• Treatment history
• Inventory control
• Invoicing

🗂️ Main Entities

| Entity | Description |
| User | System users: admin, dentist, receptionist |
| Patient | Personal data of patients |
| Appointment | Scheduled medical appointments |
| Treatment | Available dental treatment types |
| PatientTreatment | History of treatments performed per patient |
| ConsultingRoom | Rooms or offices where appointments are held |
| Invoice | Invoices generated from treatments |
| Product | Medical supplies used |
| InventoryMovement | Record of inventory entries and exits |\

🔧 Technologies Used

• Backend: Node.js + Express
• Language: TypeScript
• Database: PostgreSQL
• ORM: sequelize-typescript
• Authentication: JWT
• Utilities: cors, morgan, dotenv, bcryptjs

🚀 How to Run the Project

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/franklinbl/api-dental-system.git
   cd api-dental-system
   npm install

2. Create .env file based on .env.example:

   DB_HOST=localhost
   DB_PORT=5432
   DB_USER=postgres
   DB_PASSWORD=your_password
   DB_NAME=dental-system
   JWT_SECRET=mysecretpassword
   PORT=3000
   

3. Start the server in development mode:

   npm run dev

4. Visit http://localhost:3000 to verify that the server is running.