Dental Charting

Chart a Tooth, Not a Note

Q: Does the chart use FDI or Universal numbering?

FDI two-digit notation — quadrant then position, so an upper right first molar is 16. The chart is laid out the way you look at a seated patient, with the patient's right on your left.

Q: Can I chart children's teeth?

Yes. Switch the same chart to primary dentition and you get quadrants 5 to 8 with five positions each. History follows the tooth, so a primary molar and the permanent one that replaces it stay distinguishable.

Q: Can I move records in from the software we use now?

Charting starts fresh, and past treatment can be back-filled into a patient's history so the file is complete from the first appointment. Tell us what you are moving from and we will go through it with you.

A real FDI chart inside every patient file. Mark the tooth, mark the surface, and see what you did to it last time — without typing it into a comment box.

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This is the chart your practice uses, not a picture of one. Click any tooth, then click the surfaces you treated.

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How It Works

Open a patient and their chart is already there, numbered FDI, adult or primary dentition

Tap a tooth, then tap the surfaces you treated — mesial, occlusal, distal, buccal, lingual

Every visit adds to that tooth's history, so the next appointment starts with what you know

Key Benefits

A standards-based FDI chart, not a free-text field pretending to be one

Per-surface marking, because a filling on the occlusal is not a filling on the mesial

Primary dentition for children, with the same chart and the same history

Per-tooth history — see every treatment that tooth has had, and when

Charting lives inside the patient record, alongside notes, files and consents

Works on a phone at the chair, not only on a desktop in the back office

In detail

The chart is anatomy, not a grid

An incisor is drawn as an incisor and a molar as a molar, because a clinician reads a chart by shape long before reading numbers. Upper teeth bite downward and lower teeth bite upward, so the two arches face each other the way they do in a mouth.

Mesial always faces the midline

That is what the word means, so the surface cannot be a fixed left or right. It swaps sides depending on which half of the mouth the tooth is in. Getting it backwards mislabels half a chart, so we check it against the anatomy rather than by eye.

The chart never mirrors

Stylon runs in Hebrew and Arabic, and the whole interface flips right-to-left. The dental chart does not. Anatomy is not text: the viewer's left is the patient's right in every language, and a mirrored chart would mislabel all thirty-two teeth.

Charting is part of the record, not a separate app

The chart sits in the same patient file as your notes, uploaded X-rays, signed consents and treatment plan. A plan item can point at a specific tooth, so "crown on 26" is a scheduled piece of work rather than a sentence someone has to re-read.

What's included

FDI two-digit notation: Quadrant and position, laid out as you see a seated patient.
Five surfaces per tooth: Mesial, occlusal, distal, buccal and lingual, with anterior teeth correctly showing four.
Adult and primary dentition: The same chart and the same history for paediatric patients.
Per-tooth history: Every treatment that tooth has had, dated, across all its visits.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the chart use FDI or Universal numbering?

Can I chart children's teeth?

Can I move records in from the software we use now?

How to Use: Dental Charting

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