The Treatment Planner toolbars

The Treatment Planner lets you choose from three different toolbars while you are working in the Treatment Planner:

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

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

·        The Treatment Planner toolbar displays the buttons specific to the Treatment Planner module.

To display or remove a toolbar

In the 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

Button

Name

Description

Patient Chart

Enter existing, recommended, and completed treatment or conditions.  

Family File

Store and display important patient information, such as the patient’s name, address, phone number, medical alerts, birth date, insurance coverage, employer, and referral information.

Ledger

Enter payments, file claims, print statements, set up financial agreements, and more.

Appointment Book

Manage your patient appointments electronically.

Office Manager

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

DentriXlink

Link 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

Combine data from your Dentrix database with the word processing abilities of Microsoft Word to create a letter for a single patient.

Quick Labels

Print a variety of labels for the selected patient.

Continuing Care

Monitor your patients’ pending dental care and communicate information and reminders with groups of patients.

Send Message

Create and send an e-mail message to patients in your Dentrix database.

Questionnaires

Electronically gather and store the same patient information that is included on new patient forms, health history updates, and other paper forms.

Health History

Assign medical conditions and allergies to a selected patient. If you haven't assigned a medical condition or allergy to the selected patient, the icon is white.

Prescriptions

Create prescriptions and accurately track medicines prescribed to your patients.

Office Journal

Record past events and create reminders of future events.

Document Center

Scan, capture, and import many types of documents, such as patient letters, EOBs (explanation of benefits), and referral letters or images, such as patient pictures and X-rays. You can attach these documents to patients, providers, insurance carriers, and referral sources.

Treatment Manager

Access vital patient information, including treatment-planned work, balance, payment information, Office Journal entries, insurance information, and so forth.

Lab Case Manager

Link directly to the Appointment Book and create a case for the patient, ship it to the lab, and track its progress.

DDX

From a menu, select New DDX Lab Case Prescription or View DDX Lab Case List.

eDex

Manage and 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

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

Resource Center

Open the Dentrix Canada Resource Center.

Patient Information toolbar

Button

Name

Description

Select Patient

Click to select a patient.

Patient Alerts

Displays any patient alerts for the selected patient.

Patient Picture

Opens the Dentrix Patient Picture window, where you can save and edit a full-colour patient picture.

Patient Referrals

Displays any patient referrals.

More Information

Displays the More Information dialog box for the selected patient.

Treatment Planner toolbar

Button

Name

Description

Refresh

Click to refresh the data on other computers if your practice has a computer network.

Update Treatment Plan Fees

Click to update treatment plan fees manually to reflect any fee schedule changes.

Primary Dental Insurance Notes

Click to view a primary dental insurance note.

Secondary Dental Insurance Notes

Click to view a secondary dental insurance note.

 

Insurance Benefits

Click to view a summary of the patient's insurance benefits.

Print

Click to define options for and then print a Treatment Case, a Patient Treatment Case, or a Treatment Planner Report.

Treatment Planner View

Click to choose from five different Treatment Planner views.

Copy Case Detail to Clipboard

Click to copy the selected Case Detail information to the Windows Clipboard, where you can paste it into other programs by pressing Ctrl+V on the keyboard.

Presenter

Click to start the Dentrix Presenter module.

Other Appointments

Click to display the Family Appointment List dialog box in the Appointment Book with other appointments for family members.