Trusted from single surgeries to national dental groups
Note Dr drafts the periodontal charting, the prevention advice and the consent from your chairside appointment, all within hygiene scope, ready to approve.
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Note Dr listens to the appointment as it happens. While you chart, debride and advise, it writes the record in the background, so your patient gets you, not the top of your head over a keyboard.
Charting on record
Your six-point pockets, BPE, bleeding and plaque scores, logged exactly as you call them out.
Prevention evidenced
The oral hygiene instruction, fluoride and habit advice you gave, written down at the time you gave it.
Scope and referral
What you treated within hygiene scope, and the clear referral back to the dentist for anything beyond it.
A reviewed Note Dr record captures more of what a record needs to stand up to scrutiny, charting, prevention advice, consent, where published audits show conventional dental records routinely fall short.
Audits referenced: Cole & McMichael (Primary Dental Care, 2009), Hayes et al (Dental Update, 2017) and, on radiograph evaluation under IR(ME)R, a hospital audit (Kiu et al, Clinical Radiology, 2010).
Ask what was found last time, what advice was given, or what the patient consented to, answered in seconds from their own record.
Walk into the maintenance visit already knowing the story, without trawling the notes.
For periodontal care and prevention, Note Dr surfaces the relevant published guidance and its source, the BSP periodontal treatment guidance and Delivering Better Oral Health among them, so the standard you work to is to hand. It never tells you how to treat your patient; that judgement stays with you, within your scope.
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Why dental hygienists trust Note Dr with a record that stands up to scrutiny.
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Finally on top of my notes
A few weeks in and my admin has dropped right off. It captures the six-point charting, the indices, the OHI I give, the lot, and the transcription is spot on even with the ultrasonic running. I review and approve in seconds and I've never felt more on top of my records.
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My charting writes itself
Pocket charting used to eat into every changeover. Now the record is drafted before the patient is out of the chair and I just check it over.
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My patients get my full attention
I'm not turning to a keyboard between every sextant any more. The patient gets me, and the note is still written. It has genuinely changed how my appointments feel.
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Direct access, properly recorded
With direct access patients I need my scope and any referral back to the dentist documented clearly. Note Dr captures all of it, contemporaneously, every time.
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Prevention advice, every time
It logs the oral hygiene instruction and the prevention I deliver without me thinking about it, so the advice I gave is always there in black and white.
Every recording and record is protected by strong, independently assessed security and encryption.
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My notes have never been this thorough: the charting, the prevention I delivered, the consent, and exactly where I referred back to the dentist. The whole story of the appointment is there, in scope and written at the time.
Megan WDental hygienist
Yes — dental hygienists can use an ambient AI scribe to draft their clinical notes, provided the registrant checks and approves every record. Note Dr listens to the appointment, drafts the six-point charting, oral hygiene instruction, consent and any referral back to the dentist, and waits for your review. You stay responsible for the record; the scribe just does the writing.
A dental hygienist's notes should record the reason for attendance, an updated medical history, the periodontal assessment — BPE or six-point charting with plaque and bleeding scores — the oral hygiene instruction and prevention delivered, consent, treatment completed and the recall or referral back to the dentist. Note Dr drafts these contemporaneously for you to check and approve.
Yes — Note Dr is built for hygienists who work without a nurse to write for them. Your hands stay on the instruments: call out pockets, bleeding points and the advice you give as you go, and the draft note is waiting when the patient leaves the chair. There is nothing to type mid-appointment and no dictation to do afterwards; you simply review and approve.
Responsibility for the record always sits with you as the registrant, whoever or whatever drafts it. The GDC expects notes to be contemporaneous, clear, complete and concise; Note Dr supports that by drafting the record during the appointment itself, then holding it for you to check, amend and approve. It documents the consultation — it does not diagnose, treat or replace your clinical judgement.
Yes. It records the self-referred patient's reason for attending, your assessment within hygiene scope, the limits you explained and any onward referral back to a dentist. Everything stays inside DCP scope of practice, and you review and approve the note before it is saved.
Yes. Note Dr drafts six-point pocket charting and BPE, plaque and bleeding scores, root surface debridement entries and your oral hygiene instruction, all structured to your own templates. You check and approve each record before it reaches the patient's notes.
Yes. Note Dr sits alongside your practice software. You paste or export the finished hygiene note straight into SOE Exact, Carestream R4, Dentally or whichever system holds the patient record, so there is nothing to rip out and no integration project.