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Clinical

The chart is the centre of gravity

Every clinical feature hangs off the chart and the visit it belongs to. Nothing floats.

A close-up of the Dora Dental chart: every tooth drawn with its own roots and canals, a root canal on the three canals of an upper molar, a three-unit bridge with its pontic on the upper left, an implant with its crown on the lower right, and crowns and fillings. — Every root, canal and apex drawn. Bridges and implants are charted as the pieces of work they are.

A chart drawn from the anatomy: Every tooth is drawn with its real roots, and every root with its own canal and apex. Mark a tooth surface by surface and root by root, visit by visit, with every previous state one click away. Baby teeth and mixed dentition are there from the start, not a separate mode you have to remember to switch into.
Tooth numbering that matches your training: FDI, Universal or Palmer, chosen once in your settings. Every chart, plan, note and printout follows it. Nobody has to convert in their head.
Chart modes for the job in hand: The same odontogram in a tooth view, a periodontal view and an examination view, so each record sits where the clinician expects to find it.
Root canals that show what was treated: A root canal is charted on the canals you actually treated, and a pulpotomy on the pulp chamber alone. Whoever opens the chart next sees exactly what was done, not just a coloured tooth.
Bridges, implants and dentures, drawn whole: A bridge is drawn as one piece across the teeth it spans, abutments and pontic together. An implant shows its fixture and the crown on it. A denture covers the teeth it replaces. Each is recorded, priced and planned as the single piece of work it is.
Fast entry: Pin the treatments you reach for most and they stay at the top of the list, beside the ones your practice uses most often. A routine filling takes a couple of clicks.
Treatment plans that survive contact with reality: Phase a plan, price it, get it accepted, then work through it from the plan worklist beside the chart. Items move to done, revised or declined as treatment actually happens, and the estimate and the invoice stay attached to the plan item they came from.
Notes with a real history: Notes keep their earlier versions. You can see what a note said before it was edited, and who changed it, which is what a clinical record is supposed to mean. Note templates save the typing.
Prescriptions and referral letters: Written from the patient and the visit, in your practice’s language, with your registration details where the regulator expects to find them.
Documents: Consent forms, lab orders and scanned paperwork, filed against the patient and the visit, and easy to pull up mid-appointment.

Specialty records

Each record shows what the clinician entered.

Endodontics and sensibility

The canals treated, working lengths and sensibility test results, as the clinician records them.

The Dora Dental endodontic record on a tooth of a fictional patient, listing each canal that was treated. — An endodontic record: the canals treated, as the clinician recorded them.

Implants

The implant and its materials on the record, and an implant register that exports to CSV.

The Dora Dental implant record and the implant register for a fictional practice, with the implant and its materials listed. — The implant record, and the register that exports to CSV.

Periodontics

Probing depths, bleeding and recession entered by the clinician, shown beside the previous exam.

The Dora Dental periodontal chart for a fictional patient: probing depths, bleeding and recession entered by the clinician, shown beside the previous exam. — The periodontal chart, with the previous exam beside it. Everything on it was entered by the clinician.

Examination

Extraoral, intraoral and soft-tissue findings, recorded as they are entered.

Radiographs and photographs: Two-dimensional images from your X-ray units, filed to the patient with a preview you can zoom and pan, and the original to download.
Sedation and orthodontics: Sedation records and orthodontic records, kept with the visit they belong to.

Consent

Consent and acceptance, signed where the patient is

Send a consent form or a treatment-plan acceptance to be signed on a tablet in the surgery, on this device or from a link, and keep the signed copy with the record.

On a tablet, on this device or by a link: The patient signs in the surgery, or from a link sent by WhatsApp or email. The practice sends the request and sees which ones are still waiting.
Witness and interpreter options: Record who witnessed a signature and who interpreted, on the same form.
Countersign and export: The practice countersigns, and the signed document is exported as a PDF and filed against the patient.
Treatment-plan acceptance: A patient’s acceptance of a treatment plan is signed and recorded against the plan it belongs to.

Front desk

The day, before it happens

Scheduling a dental practice means juggling chairs, clinicians, equipment and time. Dora Dental treats it that way, and makes it quick.

The Dora Dental week view: Monday to Friday side by side, every appointment placed by time and coloured by treatment, with today’s column highlighted. — The week at a glance, so you can see the gaps before a patient asks for one.

A calendar that knows about your chairs: Book a chair and a clinician together, see the whole practice day as one grid, and stop double-booking the only chair with the scanner beside it.
Rotas and availability: Who works where and when, with holidays and exceptions. The calendar will not offer a slot that does not exist.
Forms filled in before the appointment: Send the medical history and consent forms ahead of time. What the patient submits lands on their record instead of in an inbox.
Your own questionnaires: Build the forms you actually use, from recall questions to post-op checks, and attach them to the appointment types that need them.
Check-in at a glance: Arrived, running late, in the chair, finished, visible to the whole team at once. The Agenda, the day as a work queue, is the front desk’s home screen.
A recall list: See who is due back, send recall reminders, and respect a patient’s opt-out.
Online booking and a waiting list: Online booking is a module you switch on. The waiting list holds the patients who would take an earlier slot.
Reminders that come back to you: Email and WhatsApp reminders with an allowance on every plan, and confirmations that land straight back in the calendar.

Text messages, in Great Britain: For practices in Great Britain, four service messages by text to UK mobile numbers: appointment reminders, appointment confirmations, recall reminders and signature requests. Patient preference, opt-outs and quiet hours are respected, and it is never used for marketing.
NHS England: Contracts, courses of treatment and FP17 claims for NHS dentistry in England. See the NHS page

A card open over the Dora Dental calendar for a patient running fifteen minutes late: the date and time, the dentist, the chair, the treatment, the patient’s age and phone number, and buttons to view the details, mark them late or check them in. — Rest the pointer on an appointment and the details come to you. Mark a patient late or check them in from the card itself.

The Dora Dental calendar on a phone with a card risen from the bottom of the screen for a patient who has arrived: time, dentist, chair, treatment, age and phone, with a button to view the details and one to start the visit. — On a phone, one tap opens the same card. Once the patient is here, start the visit from it.

An appointment being dragged to a new time on the Dora Dental calendar: a dashed outline at 3:00 PM where it will go, the original faded at 4:00 PM, and a bar along the bottom confirming the slot is free, with Undo and Move it here buttons. — Drag an appointment to move it. Nothing changes until you confirm, so a slip of the mouse never reschedules a patient.

A Dora Dental appointment, opened: the time, dentist, chair, treatment and clinical note on the left; on the right the patient’s age, phone and email and their appointments past and future, with today’s marked, and buttons to open the visit or the patient’s chart. — Every appointment opens onto the whole picture: the patient, their history with the practice and the next visit already booked.

Lab and safety

Cases at the lab, and kit you can trace

Know where every lab case is, and keep the sterilisation records on screen instead of in a logbook.

The Dora Dental lab cases board for a fictional practice, with each case at its stage. — Every lab case, and the stage it is at.

Lab cases with stages: Each case moves through stages with its laboratory and its due date, and the calendar shows a reminder when one is overdue.
Sterilisation and instrument traceability: Record your equipment, each cycle and the periodic tests, print pouch labels, and link a load to the visits it was used in. It fills the logbook. It never decides that a cycle passed.

Money

One ledger, from estimate to settled

The commercial side of a practice is a chain. Break any link and reconciling it becomes somebody’s Sunday.

Estimates the patient can actually read: Priced from the treatment plan, with the patient’s acceptance recorded against the plan.
Invoicing and payments: Part payments, deposits and refunds, and a running balance that is always the same number the front desk quotes.
Two currencies, properly: Quote in dollars, collect in local currency, and keep the rate you used on the transaction. A year later the books still reconcile, which is the entire point.
Memberships: Membership plans for patients, set up by the practice owner and kept with the rest of the money.

Running the practice

Grown-up controls without an IT department

Everything a practice manager needs to run the place, and everything you will want the day somebody asks a question about a record.

The Dora Dental modules page: a practice switches on only the modules it uses. — Modules: switch on what your practice uses.

Roles that match a dental team: Practice owner, dentist and receptionist. A receptionist sees the patient’s details, not the clinical record. Set it once and it holds everywhere.
Modules you switch on: Seventeen modules, with defaults for your country. Switch on what your practice uses and the rest stays out of the way.
Several sites, one set of books: Switch between practices and keep each patient’s records where they belong.
A complete history of who did what: Every change signed and dated, right down to who looked at which x-ray. Your practice manager can search it themselves, on screen, without raising a ticket with us.
Nothing disappears: See what a record looked like at any point and what changed, for notes, treatment plan items and clinical data alike.
Your data is yours: Export everything, and what you export can be imported again. A patient’s full record can be exported as a PDF whenever you want it.
Two-factor sign-in: Available to every user with an authenticator app, on every plan, at no extra cost.

Services

We help you move in

Changing practice systems is a project, not a download. Dora Software Ltd, the company behind Dora Dental, does the work with you: setting the practice up, bringing your records across and connecting your X-ray equipment.

Getting started

We set Dora Dental up with you: your chairs, your team and their roles, your opening hours, your treatment list and prices, your forms. Then we train the people who will use it, so the first real day is not the first time anyone has seen it.

Your practice configured with you
Training for clinicians and the front desk
Support through your first weeks

Bringing your data across

We move your patients, their appointments and their clinical history from the system you use today. Whether you are coming from Dentally, SOE, R4, Pearl, Open Dental, a spreadsheet or another practice management system, we will bring your records across.

Dentally, SOE, R4 and Pearl
Open Dental
Spreadsheets and any other system

Installing the Dora Bridge

The Dora Bridge connects the X-ray units in your surgery to Dora Dental, so radiographs arrive in the patient record instead of a folder on one computer. We install it at your practice and connect it to your equipment.

Installed on a computer at your practice
Connected to your X-ray units
Images filed to the right patient, or waiting for you to file

These services are offered by Dora Software Ltd.

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