Dentrix Imaging comes with several default imaging procedures. However, you can create, edit, and delete custom imaging procedures. A custom imaging procedure will be available to every user who has rights to acquire images.
Note: Custom and favorite imaging procedures are location specific.
To create a custom imaging procedure
1. Open the Patient Chart and select a patient.
All images pertaining to the selected patient appear in the Imaging panel.
2. In the Imaging toolbar, click the Launch Dentrix Imaging button.
The Dentrix Imaging window appears.
3. Click the Acquire Images tab.
The Imaging Procedures tabs appear.
Note: The Favorites tab is selected by default.
4. Click the Custom tab.
Any existing custom imaging procedures are listed. Also, at the bottom of the list, there is an option for creating an imaging procedure.
5. Click Create Custom Procedure.
The options to set up the imaging procedure become available.
Notes:
· Filter Procedures By – From the list, click Location (default), Organization, or User.
· Mirrored Exam view or Military View – Usually, X-rays are oriented as if you were looking at a patient from the front (right side to left side). In the Mirrored Exam view, X-rays are oriented as if you are looking at the patient from behind (left side to right side). To achieve this, templates must be mirrored on the x-axis and images must also be mirrored.
· A check box to the left of the Set Order button indicates whether a custom template is mirrored. This check box is only available for intraoral X-ray and camera custom templates.
6. In the Procedure Name box, enter a name of up to eleven characters for the imaging procedure.
7. In the Code box, enter a valid procedure code or a multi-code.
The specified code will be posted to a patient’s record when this imaging procedure is used to acquire images. However, if the code is invalid, an error message will appear during acquisition, and the code will not be posted.
8. Add image placeholders to the template as needed (the order you add them in determines the default acquisition order):
a. Click Add Horizontal or Add Vertical.
b. Drag the placeholder to the desired spot on the template.
c. If needed, click the Rotate button to switch the orientation of the placeholder.
d. Click the Edit button to assign tooth numbers to the placeholder.
e. Repeat steps a-d as needed to add other placeholders.
Note: To remove a placeholder, with that placeholder selected, click Remove Placeholder.
9. To
view or change the default acquisition order, click the Add/Edit icon
.
The Edit Acquisition Sequence dialog box appears.
To change the default sequence, do the following:
a. Click each placeholder in the order that you want to acquire the images.
Note: To undo order assignments, click Undo.
b. Type a new name for the sequence, and then click Save As (New sequence).
c. When you have assigned an order to every placeholder, click Finish.