'Visual Charting'

Why do you Chart the way you do?

The answer usually comes down to the way you were taught in school - which is fair. However, how long ago were you in dental school? Did they have a computer chair-side in your operatory? Probably not. Even if a computer was in the dental lab, it was probably used minimally and simply mimicked paper systems. Since computers and software have come a long way in the last few years and digital photography and radiography are becoming the norm in a modern dental office, we believe that the way you think about how you chart a patient should be revisited.

Considering that:

A picture is worth...                         a thousand words!