Periodontal Charting Australia

[Temika]

Anintegral part of any patient examination is the assessment of periodontal status. Visual cues, such as the appearance of the gingiva, can often lead to a false sense that the patient is in health. Without some examination of the amount of pocketing that is present under the gingival margin, no true assessment of periodontal health can be made. Periodontal probing is an essential part of this assessment. However, the recording of all this information is not only time consuming, but it also requires adequately designed forms. Future information sheets will outline the CPITN and full periodontal charting techniques for screening and complete assessment purposes.

The problem of recording probing depths on a repeated basis is that often on the treatment card there is insufficient room to do such a recording along with a restorative charting, or there is no form available to record this information separately.

Various approaches have been developed, depending on the size of your records and your system of storage. One of the most compact and adaptable forms is the use of a Rubber Stamp, (either self inking or used with an ink pad). A stamp of the design such as the one illustrated in the Kit can fit on 8x5 cards, and is stamped onto the patient's record whenever a periodontal examination is undertaken. In this way, the recording of the periodontal examination, diagnosis and treatment is not separate from the rest of the patient's dental record, giving a good overview of the order of treatment.

Many practices throughout Australia already use, or would like to start using, a separate card or sheet of paper to record the periodontal examination. Included in the Kit are examples of both four site or six site periodontal recording forms which can be folded to slip into an envelope storage system. The four probing sites per tooth forms allow for adequate recording for many patients. However, because periodontitis is such a site specific disease, there is a benefit in recording six sites per tooth and we would therefore encourage practices to use these forms especially for those patients who will be requiring on- going advanced periodontal care.

The example forms have the advantage of being a "prompt" to the operator with regard to notations of- Probing depths Calculus 3. Bleeding 4. Recession 5. Mobility/furcation involvement 6. Radiographic findings '7. Diagnosis 8. Prognosis 9. Treatment planning You may like to adapt one of these forms to suit your individual recording style, or you may wish to contact the Dental Practice Education Research Unit at the University of Adelaide, and we will advise you on the printing and delivery of a form which suits your practice.

To better prepare patients, we are detailing a price range for various procedures. Please understand that this is for guidance purposes only and that every case is different. We will always provide a full and detailed quote for therapy at the end of a consultation.

Our initial consultations are $295 and involve a 40-minute appointment with one of our periodontists. The price includes consultation fees, any x-rays required, and periodontal charting. The patient will have the opportunity to discuss their diagnosis and treatment plan in length with the periodontist who will be performing their treatment.

For implant therapy, the price varies from $2,100 for a straightforward, simple implant, up to $4,800 for complex two-stage implants involving simultaneous grafting. When referring patients to us for implants, please let us know if you have a preferred implant system and we will do everything we can to accommodate this.

Stage grafting can vary from $1,500 for a simple case, through to $3,500 for treatment requiring a sinus lift. The price will depend heavily on the number of materials and the time needed to complete the procedure.

With regards to mucogingival surgery, prices vary anywhere from $500 through to $800 per tooth. The cost primarily depends on the number of teeth being grafted to re-establish soft tissue contouring and whether we are using connective tissue or other alternative products.

We understand that this is quite a wide price range; however, as you can appreciate, every patient is an individual. We hope this helps, but if you do have specific requests and you can provide more details regarding the case, please free to contact our reception, and they will do their best to provide you with a narrower estimate.

In general, you should receive a higher rebate with a specialist. However, if your dentist is a preferred provider, then this will have an impact. Being a preferred provider is a purely economic agreement where the dentist agrees to limit his prices in return for patients receiving a higher rebate which should lead to more new patients.

Discussion about fees should be in a manner appropriate to the professional relationship and should include discussion about the cost of all required services and general agreement about the level of treatment to be provided

ADSTRA Dental Software is a dental practice management solution that meets and exceeds ISO-level & HIPPA regulations, and can be deployed on the cloud, or on-premise for dental practices of all sizes and specialties.

Advanced periodontal readings can be recorded and tracked within ADSTRA Dental Software including: pockets, recessions, keratinized tissue, bleeding, suppuration, calculus, and plaque, with the ability to compare indexes over time.

ADSTRA Dental Software offers core dental treatment and administration features on a cloud-based solution, including appointment scheduling, care planning, insurance, prescriptions, and more.

At-a-glance patient information displaying treatment plans, clinical notes, and more along side with odontogrammes and images - all on one screen.

ADSTRA Dental Software offers restorative, endodontic, and periodontal charting capabilities - supporting exam comparisons and the full range of tooth condition mapping.

ADSTRA Imaging adds direct connectivity with many dental imaging devices, providing image enhancement tools including filters, annotations, shape drawing and optimizations.

ADSTRA Confirmations allows for your practice to send text message appointment confirmations, reminders, follow-ups, and Covid screening forms - and even allow your patients to confirm their appointments from their mobile devices.

Thank you so much for your positive review! ADSTRA dental software has been used in thousands of dental practices (and government agencies) for over 20 years, and we are continuously striving to improve our products and features; this includes the Treatment Plan feature. We have made many improvements to this over the years and believe that you would benefit from a training session on the new features.

One of the many benefits to being an ADSTRA customer is that you have access to unlimited training for existing staff, new staff, and new features. We'd be happy to schedule a training session for you with one of our Technical Support Specialists to show you in-depth the details of the Treatment Planning feature.

X-rays and imaging are an issue. Taking the x-rays/images are not the issue, but uploading them and attaching to charts is a process. There is a lot of room for user-errors and sometimes x-rays/images go missing.

This software was lacking some features that other dental software had. They also only have customer support via phone. Nobody can go to the office and teach the dental team. They do it via telephone with everyone.

Thank you for your review! ADSTRA dental software has been used in thousands of dental practices (and government agencies) for over 20 years, and we are continuously striving to improve our products and features.

ADSTRA technical support is provided by telephone and via Internet, and with over 80% of calls answered immediately, 90% of calls answered within the hour, and 95% of calls resolved in the same day - it continuously exceeds the industry-standard for technical support.

Our remote interactive training sessions allow easy scheduling of multiple one-on-one training sessions, without the need to close the dental practice, thus not interfering with the practice generating revenue.

One of the many benefits to being an ADSTRA customer is that you have access to unlimited training for new staff and new features in which our technical support staff show in-depth the details of the many advanced features available in the software. Please give us a call at 1.800.450.0220 to schedule

New features are continuously developed to ensure that our software is at the fore-front of dental software for modern dental practices and suggestions from all users are continuously considered and implemented.

I'm not a huge fan of the modules, having to switch back and forth. I wish you could open up a patient and be able to access everything from one spot. We use alot of lab fees but in the treatment log there is only a spot for fees, not just lab fees. I wish this could be set up like on a dental claim form with two columns for dentist fees and another for lab fees. Some of our codes can go together but I have to separate them with a separate lab code for this.

As you may have noticed already, ADSTRA has made many improvements over the years - including introducing ADSTRA Clinical. ADSTRA Clinical provides quick access to the patient information required when providing dental care - all on one screen.

Included in all ADSTRA subscription plans is unlimited training and technical support, so we'd be happy to arrange a training session to ensure that you're utilizing the software to optimize the flow of your practice. Please give us a call at 1.800.450.0220 to arrange this.

While it is true that dentists are sued far more often than dental hygienists, the fact remains that dental hygienists are subject to liability. Knowing the top liability risks is an important factor in practicing competently and providing high-quality patient care.

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