Open Dental Forum

I'm doing the trial version of OD and have a couple of questions:

Can you get the original chart after treatment is finished. If a patient comes as a new patient with at lot of decay, can that decay be charted (hopefully in red) as you would on a paper chart? As treatment proceed, you fill in treatment on a separate chart. You now have a chart of the original condition of his mount and one with the restored condition. Can this be done on a computer?

Does OD lock a case note at the end of the day so that it can not be changed, only added to under a different date? I ask this about the chart and cases notes' integrity in a law court.

Complicated questions. Here's my first stab at them:

OD is generally designed so that you enter the TP procedures in red and each one has a diagnosis such as caries. So the caries itself is not charted separately as a condition, but is rather part of the justification for the procedures on the TP. And of course, you always have access to the archived TP that shows all the procedures that were originally planned. So the overall answer to your question is yes. It can do those things, but in a slightly different way than you described.

ALL notes are locked the moment they are created. Yet at the same time, the user is given the illusion of being able to change the notes at any time. The entire change history of the procedure note is tracked and nobody can ever change it, even with admin privileges.