When conducting an exam for some patients, you may discover that many or all of their teeth share the same probing depths or bleeding points, and that it would be more efficient to enter these values to more than one tooth at the same time. For example, rather than applying bleeding points tooth-by-tooth in a mouth with poor health, it could be efficient to apply bleeding points to all of the teeth and then remove them from sites where they do not apply.
Dentrix offers an easy way to select multiple teeth and enter the same probing depth and bleeding measurements to all of the teeth at once.
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.
- Select multiple teeth, and then add bleeding points to the left and right sites.
- Enter a probing depth of 2 in the center site.
- Press Escape to exit multi-select mode.