Open Dental stays your chart and your system of record. This connects through Open Dental’s published API and adds voice charting on top of it — it is not a replacement chart, not a data migration, and not a conversion.
Existing restorations, findings and treatment, in the order they occur to you. Surfaces are understood however they come out — “MOD”, “em oh dee”, “mesial occlusal distal” all land on the same three surfaces. Anything it cannot place on a specific tooth is handed back to be said again rather than guessed at.
Every finding is listed with its tooth, surfaces and procedure code. Any row can be edited — tooth, surfaces, material, status — and the procedure code is worked out from those fields rather than typed, so it stays correct. You can leave it on approval, or let it write as you go.
Each finding becomes a procedure on the patient’s chart through the API, attributed to the provider by ProvNum, with your own words kept on the row. Planned treatment comes back sequenced — urgent work first, adjacent teeth grouped into one visit, endo before the buildup before the crown.
Nothing to install. If Open Dental is already connected for clinical notes or eligibility, charting runs on the same connection — there is no second integration and no separate credential.
No. It writes down what you said. It does not read radiographs, propose treatment, or rank what a patient needs — the findings are yours and the wording on the chart is yours.
They are charted as Conditions, using the condition codes your office already has — the Watch and Existing Caries codes you configured in Open Dental, so a watch shows on the graphical tooth chart the way it does when you chart it by hand. We read your code list rather than inventing one. If a finding does not match a code you actually have, it goes in the progress note instead of being filed under a code that means something else.
Nothing is added twice. A finding already on the chart is recognised and skipped, whether it was charted a minute ago or last year. If you plan a crown on a tooth where you had already planned a filling, the crown replaces the plan rather than sitting beside it — the reverse never happens automatically, because a smaller restoration proposed over a bigger one is usually a misheard tooth.
Another office, unless you say otherwise. Silence never means your office placed it. Say “we did fourteen ourselves” and that tooth alone is charted as your work.
Yes, and that is the point of it. Say the same things while dictating a note and one recording produces both the note and the chart entries. A hygienist recording a note and a doctor calling out an exam over the top both land where they should.
Not yet, in full. Open Dental’s API is the one that can express the whole charting vocabulary, so it is the only one this is offered on today. Dentrix Ascend can take planned treatment but has no way to record an existing restoration, and CareStack has no procedure-write endpoint at all — on both, findings go to the progress note instead. We would rather say that than sell you a chart write that quietly does not happen.
You already say all of this out loud during an exam. This is the part where somebody writes it down.
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Walk the chart the way you would out loud — “one’s missing, two MO composite, three has a PFM crown, four DO composite but there’s recurrent decay so let’s plan a DO composite.” Existing restorations and planned treatment are written into Open Dental through the API as procedures on the right tooth with the right status — existing work as Existing-Other, planned work as Treatment Planned.
在您的手机上填写真实的 Intake Dental 表单——亲身体验患者所看到的内容。
