Dentistry, organized tooth by tooth
The Dental feature gives dental clinics a visual chart of the mouth and a clear record of what was found at every visit. It sits alongside the rest of the patient's file, so a dental history lives in the same place as everything else.
What it does
- Shows the upper and lower jaws as a chart you click: pick a tooth, set its condition, and record findings on any of its five surfaces.
- Draws each tooth as the kind of tooth it is — incisors, canines, premolars and molars each have their own shape and size — so the chart reads like a mouth rather than a grid of boxes.
- Zooms in on a single tooth when a surface needs precise work, keeping its neighbours in view so you never lose your place. The arrow keys then walk along the arch, bringing the view with them.
- Charts children as well as adults: the primary (baby) teeth are drawn inside the arch, and the chart opens on the right set for the patient's age — or on both, for a child who still has some of each. Switching the view never changes what is recorded.
- Colours every tooth and surface by what was recorded, so the state of the mouth reads at a glance.
- Puts the chart beside its legend and the tooth's own controls, so setting a condition never means scrolling away from the tooth.
- Carries the chart forward from the patient's last visit, so the dentist edits an up-to-date mouth instead of starting from a blank one — while each visit keeps its own snapshot.
- Opens the chart first on the appointment page, and leads the dashboard with today's chair list and which patients are still to be charted.
- Prints the chart on the exam PDF, surfaces and all.
- Stores it on the patient's record next to consultations, prescriptions and results.
Why it helps
For the clinic
A purpose-built dental workflow means less improvising with generic notes. The dashboard shows at a glance who has been seen and whose chart is still outstanding.
For dentists
The tooth chart shows the whole mouth at a glance, already carrying forward what was recorded last time, so the dentist picks up exactly where the previous visit left off. When a finding needs charting to a particular surface, the chart closes in on that tooth so the target is easy to hit.
For staff
The front desk sees the day's chair list in one place, with unfinished charts first.
For patients
A consistent record across visits, and a chart their dentist can show them — including for a child, whose baby teeth are recorded the same way and stay on file as the adult teeth come through.
Dental records are part of the protected patient file. Every tooth condition, surface finding and note is encrypted at rest with the clinic's own key, and is only visible to authorized clinical staff.
This is an optional feature your clinic can switch on when needed. Marking a clinic as a dental practice in the Platform Admin turns it on and puts the chart front and centre — and starts new patient registration from a shorter form, since dental intake happens at the chair rather than the front desk. Every field is still there to switch back on in Settings, and a clinic that has already chosen its own set keeps it.
A practice type is separate from whether the clinic is a group practice or a single dentist working alone, so an independent dentist is both. It can be changed back at any time; charts recorded while the clinic was dental stay on file either way.
Where the clinic also runs Imaging, a finding on a dental X-ray can be pinned to the same tooth and surface this chart uses, so the radiograph and the odontogram describe the mouth in one vocabulary.
Not included yet
Treatment planning (proposing a course of work and tracking each step to completion) and linking dental work to the clinic's services and prices for billing are not part of this feature today. Dental work is billed through the normal charges workflow.