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API authentication tied to a user: how do we keep a sync from breaking when that user is deleted?

  • September 16, 2026
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Hi,

We're running a sync against the Dentally API and hit a problem we'd like your advice on.

We were authenticating with a personal access token. The user that token belonged to was deleted, and our sync stopped working.

We looked at using application tokens instead, but /oauth/token/info shows a user_id, so those appear to be tied to a specific user as well.

Two questions:

  1. If the user who authorised an application is deleted, is that application token also invalidated?
  2. Is there a way to authenticate that isn't tied to an individual user, so the sync doesn't break when someone leaves the practice?

Thanks