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Auto Resolve (conditions only)
The Diamond Dental Clinical Chart has an intelligent feature called Auto Resolve. For most chartable conditions, it will set the Resolution Date automatically. If you chart mesial caries for tooth 19 on June 10, and then in the regular posting program, you post an MOD amalgam for that same tooth on June 15, the program is intelligent enough to know that an MOD amalgam will resolve mesial caries that was previously observed on the same tooth.

Manually Setting the Resolution Date (conditions only)
You can manually designate a Resolution date of an existing condition or indicate that it is unresolved. To do this, click on the Details button for that condition. This is seen in the chart ledger section of the chart, on the far right of the line item in question. When you click it, the Conditions Detail screen will appear. Click the Settings button to bring up the External Charting Entry screen. It will be populated with the data from the line item you clicked. You may change anything about the line item, including the Resolution Date if it is a condition.

Hide Status
Only conditions have a resolution status. Unresolved conditions display on the chart and Resolved conditions do not display. Procedures, such as extractions, crowns, and root canals, do not have a resolution status. What controls procedures from displaying or not displaying on the chart is its Hide status. Just as conditions have an Auto Resolve feature to intelligently prevent conditions that should not display from displaying, procedures have an Auto Hide feature. For example, if an MOD amalgam is posted on tooth 19, and then at a later date a crown is posted on that same tooth, the amalgam’s Hide status will automatically be changed from Hide Automatically (which means it is not currently hidden) to Hide as of this Date. The date being the date the crown was posted.  This prevents the crown and the amalgam from displaying simultaneously, which would be wrong. The Auto Hide feature has the intelligence to know that certain procedures will replace other procedures. There are four Hide Status types for procedures:

1. Hide Automatically:This procedure is not hidden, but if the program determines another procedure has replaced it, its status will be changed to Hide as of this Date, with the date being the date of the overriding procedure.
2. Never Hide: This choice prevents the Auto Hide function from hiding this procedure. When a procedure’s status is Never Hide, you will see its abbreviation in the abbreviation box, and you will see it displayed in the chart ledger. You may or may not see the procedure’s symbol on the chart. For example, if you have an MOD amalgam on a certain tooth, and at a later date post a crown on that tooth, the charting program will Auto Hide the amalgam. Its symbol, abbreviation, and ledger line will be hidden. If you then manually change the amalgam’s status to Never Hide, the abbreviation and ledger line will once again display, but the symbol will not show because the crown’s graphic is covering it up.
3. Always Hide: This forces the procedure to be hidden despite the setting of the chart date.
4. Hide as of this Date: When a procedure is automatically hidden, the status is changed to Hide as of this Date, with the date being the date of the overriding procedure. You can also manually set the status to Hide as of this Date and the date can be set to whatever date you choose.