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Dental Charting: Why Chart?

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Probing 103 to demonstrate 8mm deep pocket on bucco-caudal aspect   Probing 103 to demonstrate 8mm deep pocket on bucco-caudal aspect

 

Probing 103 to demonstrate 8mm deep pocket on bucco-caudal aspect

The first step in basic dental procedures is to chart your patient.

Why Do You Need to Chart Your Dental Cases?

  • Charting is essential to record the presence of health and/or disease in a form that can be used now and later.

  • At its very simplest form, it is necessary for medico-legal protection reasons to know what teeth and pathology was present before treatment was started.

  • The success, or otherwise, of treatments is impossible to gauge over time without gathering the proper information at initial treatment.

  • It is a good clinical habit to develop. The client is often impressed by the time taken to gather information that they can easily understand and use themselves to play their part in the maintenance of the oral cavity.

  • Many different charts exist in the vet dental literature. Use one that suits your purposes.

 

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