Adding treatment by using explosion codes

In Easy Dental, you can create explosion codes in posting procedures. A single explosion code is made up of several individual procedure codes that are typically scheduled, recommended, or completed at the same time. Instead of posting each code separately, you enter only the explosion code, and each of the individual codes posts.

Explosion codes are set up in Reports. Click Setting up Easy Dental for more information.

To add treatment by using an explosion code

1.   Select a patient.

2.   If necessary, change the patient's provider.

Note: By default, all treatments posted in the Chart are assigned to the patient’s primary provider.

3.   If the treatment requires a tooth number, click the appropriate tooth in the graphic chart.

4.   In the Chart toolbar, click Explosion Codes.

The Select Explosion Code dialog box appears.

 

5.   Select the explosion code that you want, and then click OK.

Note: You cannot select more than one explosion code from the Select Explosion Code dialog box at a time. If the procedure requires additional information, such as surfaces or quadrants, the Surface Selection dialog box appears.

6.   Select the appropriate treatment areas, click Add, and then click OK.  

Note: The procedure codes are updated automatically to reflect your surface selections.

For example, if you click the Amalgam-1 surf. prim/perm procedure button and then enter three surfaces, Easy Dental posts the three surface codes to Chart and Accounts.

7.   Click the appropriate status for the procedure being entered:

·        Existing – To enter existing work performed by a provider within your practice.

·        Tx Plan (Treatment Plan) – To enter recommended treatment for a patient.

·        Complete – To enter completed work and conditions for a patient.

·        + (Auto-State) – To enter treatment and quickly assign several procedures the same status. After you click Auto-State (+), the next procedure status button that you select remains selected until you select one of the other three procedure status buttons. If the button has a minus sign (-), auto-state is enabled.

Notes:

·        If you use a charting symbol in conjunction with the posted procedure, the procedure is added to the graphic chart and the progress notes.

·        All completed work posted in the Chart automatically posts to Accounts, and the appropriate charges are listed on the patient’s account.