Charting - how to chart dental issues PDF

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Dental charting Why do we need to record this? Forms a record of baseline information: - Teeth present - Restorations present - Cavities present - Teeth to be extracted Useful to aid with treatment planning and case discussion Medical legal requirement can be used to provide evidence in - Forensic dentistry - Disciplinary / litigation cases Charts are drawn as if we are face to face with our patient Zsigmondy-palmer notation Permanent teeth are numbered from 1-8 in each quadrant Deciduous teeth are lettered from A-E in each quadrant (capital letters) This is the preferred system of tooth notation in the UK FDI notation Quadrant symbol is replaced by a number. First number is the quadrant and the second number is the individual tooth. Moves in clockwise action starting in the upper right. Most common mistakes - Charting left and right sides the wrong way round - Not being aware of which surface is labial/buccal and which are palatal/lingual What are we likely to see? Caries – may be obvious as a cavity or seen as a shadow, teeth must be clean and dry Cavities – these are recorded as a simple outline Restorations – recorders as an outline that has been filled in to form a solid shape - A restoration that needs replacing is recorded as a solid shape surrounded by an outline...