Trusted from single surgeries to national dental groups
Note Dr writes the dentist's prescription you worked to, the care you gave within scope and anything you referred back, ready to approve.
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Note Dr listens to the appointment as it happens. While you restore, advise and reassure, it writes the record in the background, so a nervous child gets you, not the top of your head over a keyboard.
Prescription on record
The dentist's treatment plan and prescription you worked to, named in the note before you start.
Scope held and shown
The care you delivered within dental therapy scope, and anything beyond it referred back to the dentist.
Consent before treatment
What the patient or, for a child, the parent agreed to, recorded the moment it is given.
A reviewed Note Dr record captures more of what a record needs to stand up to scrutiny, findings, treatment to the prescription, 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 was treated to the plan, or what the patient consented to, answered in seconds from their own record.
Walk into the recall already knowing the story, without trawling the notes.
When a presentation calls for it, Note Dr surfaces the published guidance a dental therapist works to, the GDC Scope of Practice, Delivering Better Oral Health and the SDCEP paediatric guidance, with the source alongside. It never tells you how to treat your patient; that judgement stays with you, within your scope.
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Why dental therapists trust Note Dr with a record that stands up to scrutiny.
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It shows the prescription I worked to
My note now names the dentist's treatment plan before I lay a finger on the tooth, then the restoration I placed to it. The transcription is spot on even with a wriggly child in the chair. I review and approve in seconds, and the authority for what I did is never in doubt.
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My records keep up with my list
On a busy paediatric list the notes used to pile up. Now each restoration is drafted before the child is out of the chair, and I just check it over and approve.
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The child gets me, not a keyboard
I'm not turning to a screen between every tooth any more. A nervous child gets me, and a full record of the treatment is still written. It has genuinely changed how my appointments feel.
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What I referred back is always logged
When I find something beyond my scope, the note records exactly what I sent back to the dentist and why. If anyone ever asks where my scope ended, the answer is already written, not reconstructed afterwards.
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Parental consent, captured every time
It logs the options I explained to the parent and the consent they gave before I started, without me thinking about it, so for every child the agreement is there in black and white.
Every recording and record is protected by strong, independently assessed security and encryption.
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For the first time my notes prove the whole chain: the dentist's prescription, the treatment I did to it within scope, and what I referred back. If anyone questioned my authority for a single appointment, the record would settle it.
Joanna RDental therapist
Yes — a dental therapist can use an AI scribe to draft clinical notes, provided you review and approve every note before it enters the patient record. From the appointment it drafts the examination findings, the prescription you worked to, the treatment given within scope and the consent taken, ready for you to approve. Responsibility for the record stays with you as the registrant.
Note Dr helps you keep complete, contemporaneous records mapped to the GDC Scope of Practice for dental therapists. Every note stays within therapy scope, shows the prescription you worked to and flags anything beyond it, and you review and approve each one before it reaches the patient record.
You are — under GDC standards the registrant who treats the patient is responsible for the record, however it was drafted. Note Dr writes the draft from the appointment; you check it against what happened, amend anything that needs it and approve it before it becomes part of the record. Nothing is filed on your behalf, and the note carries your review, not the software's.
Note Dr names the dentist's prescription and treatment plan in your note before treatment, then records the care you delivered against it. The link between the plan and what you did is captured contemporaneously, so your record shows you acted on the dentist's authority, not your own initiative.
You document a direct access appointment by recording your own assessment, the care you gave within dental therapy scope and any referral to a dentist for treatment beyond it, so the note stands complete without a prescription behind it. Note Dr drafts these from the appointment as it happens and presents the record for you to review and approve before it is filed.
When you find something outside dental therapy scope, Note Dr records what you identified, that you stopped within your remit and exactly what you referred back to the dentist. The boundary of your scope and the reason for the referral are documented at the time, not reconstructed later.
Yes — Note Dr works alongside whatever practice management system your surgery runs. It drafts the note from the appointment; once you have reviewed and approved it, you copy the finished record straight into your usual system, so the practice keeps one source of truth. There is nothing to install into the practice system and no integration for your principal or practice manager to sign off.