After you’ve entered perio exams, Dentrix offers several options to help you manage the exams. These include opening existing exams; saving, editing, and deleting exams; changing exam dates and providers; and printing exams and reports.
Watch this video to learn how to manage perio exams. (Duration 2:25)
Additional Tips
- Once you delete an exam, you cannot recover its information except by restoring a database backup.
- If you edit an exam and save it, you cannot retrieve the previous revision’s information.
- You cannot delete, edit, or change a perio exam’s date or provider if the exam has been moved into history with the “Move Perio Exams to History” function in the Dentrix Task Scheduler.
- To learn more about managing perio exams, read the topics under Managing Perio Exams 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 Dentrix Learning Edition software.)
- Open Brent Crosby’s perio chart and perform the following:
- Open a perio exam that is NOT in history.
- Make a few changes to the opened exam and save it, along with its current entries.
- Delete the old exam.
- Edit the new exam by changing some of its entries and save it.
- Change the date for the new exam to two business days before today.
- Change the provider to whomever you want.
- Create a new perio exam, make some entries (for practice), and save it.