How to Add Existing Conditions or Diseases on the Hard Tissue Chart or Dental Chart

Related Training
Using the Hard Tissue Chart Recorded Class

Use Current Mode to chart a patient's current anatomy, conditions, or existing restoration work. Entries are applied to the graphical tooth chart (Odontogram) and recorded in the clinical history/notes in the side panel. Notes can be added to each finding as needed.

For more information, see Hard Tissue Chart or Dental Chart Visual Markup Legend. 

To add existing conditions or diseases:

1. From the Patient tab, select Clinical > Hard Tissue Chart (US) or Dental Chart (UK).
2. For Mode, select Current.
3. Click the tooth number and select existing conditions/diseases for an entire tooth.  
   
4. Click the tooth diagram and select the tooth surface or root.
5. Select existing conditions/diseases.
6. Click the tooth surface diagram and select on the surface to select existing conditions/diseases.  Pre-existing conditions or diseases are charted in grey; work performed outside of the office is charted in green.  

Note: Conditions or existing restorations are expired from the visual chart whenever procedures are completed to remove them from the affected teeth. For example, a charted filling entry is removed when a crown is placed on that tooth. Conditions that are not removed by the current work are still displayed. While conditions may no longer be visible on the Odontogram, they are retained in the patient's Clinical History record, and all clinical events remain documented.

Untreated Decayed Teeth on NHS Claims

For UK practices, you can enable a setting to automatically populate the number of untreated decayed teeth on NHS Claims at the time of treatment plan completion. This setting must be enabled from Administration > Practice Settings > NHS Settings. Simply select Yes next to Automatically Fill Untreated Decayed Teeth On NHS Claims and save the settings to enable.

The number of Untreated Decayed Teeth auto populates at the time of Course of Treatment completion and is based on the number of teeth with decay on any anatomy (i.e., without a subsequent procedure posted to fix the decay).

The number of untreated decayed teeth is displayed under the Clinical Data Set / DMF section of an NHS claim. You can manually override this number during claim submission if needed. See How to Update an NHS Claim for more information.