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The Document Center toolbars

You can choose from several different toolbars while you are working in the Document Center:

·        The Dentrix Modules toolbar displays buttons for each of the Dentrix modules.

·        The Patient Information toolbar displays buttons specific to patient information.

·        The Acquire toolbar displays buttons used to acquire a variety of documents from devices such as scanners and digital cameras. You can also import documents from files stored on your computer or attach an image or text as a document using the Clipboard.

·        The Document toolbar displays buttons to print, send, export, view, sign, modify, or delete documents.

·        The Unfiled Documents toolbar displays buttons to acquire documents from devices, import documents, capture screen images, combine documents, and delete documents.

·        The View toolbar displays buttons to view documents by patient, family, provider or staff,employers, insurance carriers, and referral sources. You can also apply filters to view documents acquired within a certain date range and assigned to a certain document type.

·        The Preview toolbar displays buttons that you can use in the Document Preview pane to page through a multi-page document.

·        The Modify Document toolbar displays buttons you can use to adjust and save the image document.

To display or remove a toolbar

In Treatment Planner, click View, point to Toolbars, and then click the toolbar that you want to display or remove. A check mark next to a toolbar name indicates that the toolbar is being displayed.  

Dentrix Modules toolbar

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Name

Description

Patient Chart

Click to enter patient treatment and conditions, document and track patient care, enter periodontal treatment information, and explain and demonstrate proposed treatment to patients.

Family File

Click to store and display important patient information, such as the patient’s name, address, phone number, health history, birth date, insurance coverage, employer, and referral information.

Ledger

Click to enter payments, file claims, print statements, set up financial agreements, and more.

Appointment Book

Click to easily manage your patient appointments.

Office Manager

Click to use several tools and reports to evaluate and improve the management processes of your practice.

DXWeb

The DXWeb toolbar works in conjunction with eCentral to provide you with the tools necessary to connect your Dentrix software to the internet.

DentriXlink

 

Click to provide links to supported third-party X-ray and imaging systems you've installed on your computer; if none are installed, clicking this button displays a list of third-party digital X-ray and imaging systems that you can use with Dentrix.

Quick Letters

Click to combine data from your Dentrix database with the word processing abilities of Microsoft Word to help you quickly create a letter for a single patient.

Quick Labels

Click to quickly print a variety of labels for the selected patient.

Continuing Care

Click to monitor your patients’ pending dental care and communicate information and reminders easily and effectively with groups of patients.

Send Message

Click to create and send e- mail messages to patients in your Dentrix database.

Questionnaires

Click to help your office go paperless by electronically gathering and storing the same patient information that is included on new patient forms, health history updates, and other paper forms used in your office. A red check mark in the icon indicates that the patient has filled out a questionnaire.

Health History

Click to assign medical conditions and allergies to selected patients and keep a record of their health and treatments.

Prescriptions

Click to quickly create prescriptions and accurately track medicines prescribed to your patients. If a prescription bottle appears in the icon, the patient has a prescription.

Office Journal

Click to keep a record of past events and to set reminders for future events.

Treatment Manager

Click to access vital patient information, including treatment-planned work, balance, payment information, Office Journal entries, insurance information, and so on.

eDex

Click to manage and quickly search lists of patients (active, inactive, or archived), employers, insurance carriers, labs, non-patients, providers, staff, referrals, and other contact you may want to remember. You can also create custom contacts and contact categories to filter the Contacts List or even locate a patient's next appointment.

Dentrix Marketplace

Click to open the Dentrix Marketplace website from which you can purchase many products to enhance and expand your Dentrix platform.

Patient Information toolbar

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Name

Description

Select Patient

Click to select a patient.

Patient Alerts

Click to display any patient alerts for the selected patient.

Patient Picture

Click to open Patient Picture.

Patient Referrals

Click to display any patient referrals.

More Information

Click to open the More Information dialog box for the selected patient.

Acquire toolbar

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Name

Description

From Device

Click to acquire a document from a device, such as a scanner or digital camera.

Import from File

Click to import a file on disk.

Paste from Clipboard

Click to copy the most recent contents of the Windows Clipboard to the Document Center using the closest supported file type.

Screen Capture

Click to select an area of your computer screen and capture it. You can capture and save the image in the Document Center and then attach it automatically to an insurance claim.

Import from Patient Picture

Click to search for an associated patient picture and import it.

Auto Directory File Acquire

Click to designate a folder to automatically save scanned documents to regardless of the type of device you used to scan the document.

Unfiled Documents

Click to acquire large documents and images and add them to the Document Center as unfiled documents. You can use this feature to acquire single documents but is intended to acquire batches of documents to be completed later. This feature is helpful for importing multi-page picture documents.

Documents toolbar

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Name

Description

Refresh

Click to refresh the list in the Document Center view.

Print Documents

Click to print documents.

Send Documents

Click to send documents electronically.

Export Documents

Click to export documents as files.

Document Information

Click to make changes to document information (as long as the document has not been signed.)

Modifying Document Attachments

Click to make changes to document attachments.

Sign Documents

Click to apply signatures to a document for patients, providers, and staff.

Use the Modify Document toolbar

Click to display the modify document toolbar with several tools that allow you to modify a document in the Document Center.

Delete Selected Document

Click to delete selected documents.

Unfiled Documents toolbar

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Name

Description

From Device

Click to acquire a document from a device, such as a scanner or digital camera.

Import from File

Click to import a file on disk.

Paste from Clipboard

Click to copy the most recent contents of the Windows Clipboard into the Document Center using the closest supported file type.

Screen Capture

Click to select an area of your computer screen and capture it. You can capture and save the image in the Document Center and then attach it automatically to an insurance claim.

Document Information

Click to open the Document Information dialog box.

Combine Documents

Click to combine two or more documents in a single document.

Delete

Click to delete selected documents.

Show Preview

Click to open a preview pane and see a preview of the selected document.

Refresh

Click to refresh the Unfiled Documents list.

Attach To

Click to attach the selected document to the selected patient.

 

View toolbar

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Name

Description

Expand List

Click to expand the list view to include details.

Collapse List

Click to collapse the list view to show only dates.

By Single

Click to display the documents for a single patient.

By Family

Click to display the documents for an entire family.

By Range

Click to display the documents within a specified range.

Filters

Click to specify filters for the documents that will appear.

Show Preview

Click to toggle between displaying and hiding the Document Preview pane.

By Patient

Click to display documents by patient.

By Provider or Staff

Click to display documents by provider and staff member.

Preview toolbar

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Name

Description

Previous Page

Click to display the previous page.

Next Page

Click to display the next page.

Full Screen

Click to display the page using the full screen.

Zoom Out

Click to zoom out on the image.

Zoom In

Click to zoom in on the image.

Modify Document toolbar

You can alter the appearance of image documents from the Document Preview pane using the Modify Document toolbar. Only image documents can be altered using the Modify Document toolbar. To display the image document, click the Show Preview button on the View toolbar.

To modify an image document

From the Document Center, in the Edit menu, click Modify Document.

The Modify Document toolbar appears in the Document Preview pane.

 

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Name

Description

Copy To Clipboard

Click to insert a copy of the current information in the Windows Clipboard.

Add Page

Click to add a page to the current document.

Delete Page

Click to delete the current page.

Adjust Image

Click to adjust the color, light, contrast, and saturation of the document or image.

Crop Image

Click to crop the image.

Invert Colors

Click to invert the image colors.

Convert to Grayscale

Click to convert the image to gray scale.

Remove Spots

Click to remove random spots on the image.

Rotate Image

Click to rotate the selected image.

Orientation

Click to specify whether the image is of the Right Side of Mouth, Left side of Mouth, or the Entire Mouth.

Undo

Click to undo the last change you made.

Undo All

Click to return the image to its last saved state.