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Dental Care

12 guides on Dental Care in Ventrecs. Each guide says who it is written for and lists the steps in order. Start with “Set up dental care”.

Set up dental careDental care adds one dental chart to each patient, a treatment-planning workspace, dental recalls and dental chairs. It reuses the patient, appointment, consent, billing… Open and read the dental chartEvery patient has one dental chart for life. It shows the teeth as they are now, built from signed findings, and it keeps the history. The chart is a view of the… Chart conditions, existing work and treatmentThe toolbox above the odontogram turns a click on a tooth into a record. Pick a tool, then select a surface and a tooth. Nothing on the chart is final until it is signed… Record and sign a dental assessmentAn assessment is one dated examination: its findings, its notes and its recall. Findings are written into the assessment as drafts and become part of the chart when a… Build and approve a treatment planA treatment plan is a proposal: the items you recommend, in the order of the visits, with an estimate. A plan or an accepted estimate is never treatment that has been… Present a plan and quote it through SalesWhen dental quotations are installed, presenting a plan creates a quotation in Sales: one line for each plan item, at the quoted price, for the patient's contact. The… Record and sign a dental procedureA signed procedure is the only record that completes treatment. It states who did what, to which tooth and surface, with what anaesthesia and materials, and what the… Record a periodontal examA periodontal exam records six sites on every tooth: probing depth, recession, bleeding, plaque and suppuration, and for each tooth the mobility and furcation. It needs… Manage recalls, chairs and dental appointmentsDental care uses the normal appointment, and adds the chair and the assistant. A recall reminds the clinic that a patient is due back. Order work from a dental laboratoryA lab case is the order for something a dental laboratory makes: a crown, bridge, veneer, implant crown, denture, retainer or guard. It is separate from the clinical… Set up dental laboratory orderingLaboratory ordering needs the dental laboratory module and Purchase. Set up the laboratory as a vendor, give its service a price, say which procedures are lab work, and… Maintain the procedure catalogue, care panels and country profilesThe dental director keeps the lists the dentists choose from. Under Dental → Configuration there are Country Profiles, the Procedure Catalogue, Care Panels, Finding…