At times, it may be necessary to change a patient’s dentition to accurately reflect their primary or permanent teeth.
Watch this video to learn how to change dentition in the Patient Chart. (Duration 0:20)
Additional Tips
- The following options can be selected to change a patient’s dentition:
- Change All – changes all teeth to the opposite dentition of what they currently are — primary to permanent or permanent to primary.
- Change All to Permanent – changes all teeth to permanent dentition.
- Change All to Primary – changes all teeth to primary dentition.
- Change Selected – only changes the selected teeth to the opposite dentition of what they currently are.
- To learn more about changing dentition, read Changing Patient Dentition in Dentrix Help.
Check Your Knowledge
If you have access to Dentrix, check your knowledge with this exercise.
- Switch to the Dentrix demo database.
(Skip this step if you are using the Dentrix Learning Edition software.) - Change Matthew Little’s entire dentition to permanent.