The dental protocol in Animana allows you to create a patient’s dental record. You can map all the patient’s teeth, and add a diagnosis, treatment and gum assessment per tooth. This article explains how to use the dental protocol.

Step-by-step instructions

1. Open the patient file.
2. At the top, select Dental CA. Depending on your settings, you will find this option either in the row of blue action buttons or in the “More actions” drop-down menu at the top left of the file.
3. Enter the date the dental examination took place.
4. In the field “bite” you can enter any information regarding the patient’s bite characteristics.
5. Enter comments regarding the general dental state for the patient in the field “diagnosis” .
   
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   Tip: the diagnosis text will be shown on the patient file history row.
6. Enter additional information in the field “explanation”.
7. The bottom-half of the screen allows you to track individual teeth information. Using the global dental formula standard, click on the correct dental number to add notes to that individual tooth.
8. A pop-up screen will open, displaying the dental number. Select a “diagnosis” from the first drop-down menu. The options are: missing, perio, caries, trauma, RL (resorptive laesion), malocclusion, or other.
9. Select a “treatment” for this tooth from the second drop-down menu. The options are: extraction, perio, restorative, endo, surgery, or ortho.
10. Select the state of the “gums” for this tooth from the third drop-down menu. The options are: gingivitis 1, gingivitis 2, gingivitis 3, abcess.
11. Enter additional information for this tooth in the field “explanation”. Explanations entered here will be show on the dental overview screen.
12. Click Save or Save and next if you want to continue adding information for the next tooth.

As you can see, each tooth is split into three colour-coded sections; the top for diagnosis, the middle for treatment, and the lower for gums. The key to the colour-coding is shown on screen.