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

To manually change the Hidden status of a procedure, click the item’s Detail button in the ledger section of the chart. The Procedure Details screen will open. Select the Hide status desired and click OK.

Conditions also have a Hide Status. The Hide types for conditions are Never Hide, Always Hide, and Hide as of this Date. Unlike procedures there is no Hide Automatically choice. That is because, unlike procedures, conditions have a Resolution Date and an Auto Resolve function. Despite this, the program allows you to hide conditions if you wish. Hiding a condition does takes it off the chart but is not the same as being resolved. For example, a Periapical Radiolucency that has been resolved has actually changed, meaning that bone has actually regenerated and the condition has returned to normal. Hiding a condition says nothing about the condition being corrected, it merely takes it off the chart.

Chart Date Settings
The Diamond Dental Clinical Chart is Dynamic because as you change the chart’s date, the chart will change to reproduce conditions for that date.
The chart's date is accessed via the Chart Settings tab in the lower left corner of the chart screen. To change the date you may click inside the date field and retype the date, or click the drop down arrow to the right of the date field to open a calendar control, or use the up and down buttons to adjust a day at a time or a week at a time. After modifying the date, no change takes place on the chart until you click the Apply button. After clicking Apply, the chart will reform itself to comply with the new date setting.

To continue with the example we have been using, assume you posted an MOD amalgam for tooth 19 on June 10, 2005. Then you posted a crown for that same tooth on February 5, 2006. If you are looking at the chart on February 17, 2006, you will see only the crown on tooth 19. The amalgam would have been Auto Hidden. Now if you set the chart date to a date prior to the crown, say February 3, 2006 and click Apply, you will see the crown disappear (because it didn’t exist until February 5) and the amalgam would once again reappear.

The Pre-Existing checkbox will filter the chart to display only those items (conditions or procedures) that have been entered using the special Pre-Existing date value. The Set Today’s Date button will quickly bring you back to today’s date.

Selecting Displayed Dentition: Permanent, Primary, or Mixed
When you open the Clinical Chart for the first time for a particular patient, the default is to display the 32 teeth of the permanent dentition. If you prefer to view the primary teeth, click the Show Primary button located on the Tooth Settings tab. This will display the 20 primary teeth. You can also click the Show Mixed button to show a mixed dentition. This button, by default, will display the 20 primary teeth and 12 unerupted permanent molars. The symbol for unerupted is an oval surrounding the tooth, but the tooth is not seen. You can flip back and forth among the three dentitions by clicking the Show Permanent, Show Primary or Show Mixed buttons. If you exit the charting program with the permanent dentition displayed, then the next time you access this patient, the permanent dentition chart will be the one that comes up. Likewise, if you leave the charting program with the primary teeth displayed, the primary teeth will come up the next time the patient’s chart is opened, and the same is true for the mixed dentition.