View Clinical Chart screen. View Video, 10 min. 23 sec.

Selecting Teeth
To select a tooth, click on the tooth or its number. A yellow rectangle will appear around the tooth indicating it is selected. When you select a tooth, the chart ledger is filtered to display only the selected tooth’s line items. That is very useful in the case of this tooth selection of tooth 19 seen here. Looking at the tooth, it appears that it has an MODB resin filling. However, the abbreviation box shows “Resin” twice, so we know that it is not a single MODB restoration. When we look down at the chart ledger, which would now displaying only tooth 19’s items, we would see that there is a 1 surface buccal resin and a 3 surface MOD resin. Two separate fillings.

Selecting Multiple Teeth
To select multiple teeth, hold down the Shift key as you click the teeth. This will prevent previously selected teeth from becoming unselected.
You can also select multiple teeth using the Tooth Settings tab in the lower left of the chart. In the Selection section of  that tab several buttons can select or de-select several teeth at once. These buttons allow you to Select All, Upper, Lower, UL, UR, LL, or LR.  Clicking these buttons will select or de-select teeth in the associated area of the chart.

Charting External Items
External Items are items that appear on the chart, but were not entered using the regular Diamond Dental Posting program. External items will not appear on the patient’s Posting screen ledger. They are dental procedures that were performed on your patient by another dentist. External Items can also be dental Conditions that exist in the mouth. The Clinical Chart has its own posting screen to enter external procedures and conditions. To post them, click the Chart External Items button at the top of the chart. The External Charting Entry screen will appear. The sample screen here displays a condition selected. This screen is modeled after the familiar Charge Entry screen of the regular Diamond Dental posting program. Note that charting External Procedures and Conditions is optional. It should be used if you want the chart to reflect a more complete picture of the patient’s dental status.

Charting External Items: HotKeys
The External Charting Entry screen has 14 HotKeys (actually they are buttons) across the top, similar to the Diamond Dental Charge Entry screen. If you are entering this screen for the first time, the only HotKeys that are defined are the Conditions and the Show All HotKeys. These two keys are not changeable or definable. The Conditions button will open up a list of all the conditions that are chartable for your selection. The Show All button will open up your regular procedure list, but filtered to display only chartable procedures. For example, radiographs and prophylaxis are not included because these procedures do not appear on the chart, but crowns, extractions, amalgams and other chartable procedures are included. The remaining 12 HotKeys are not defined, and will remain undefined until you define them. The remaining HotKeys are used to access procedures only. Conditions are accessed only through the Conditions HotKey. To customize the remaining HotKeys, click the HotKey Settings button on the External Charting Entry screen. This will open the HotKey Settings screen for you to customize your own HotKeys.