Dental Charting Flashcards
Condition: Abrasion
Dental Charting : outline area in green
Notation/Comment: abr (green)
Condition: Amalgam (alloy) restoration
Dental Charting: outline restoration and color in solid blue
Notation/Comment: none charting indicates materials
Condition: Anomalies
Dental Charting: specify anomaly, tooth, & surface
Notation/Comment: black pen in comments
Attachments for Invisalign
Note in comments
I.e Invisalign buttons # 11&23 facial
Attrition
Outline area(s) in green
Attr (green)
Bonding
Outline the restoration in blue and fill with blue dots (if tooth is colored)
Bond (blue)
Braces
(Orthodontics)
Note in comments:
(I.e. full ortho, ortho on max, ortho bands on #18, 31, etc)
Bridge
X over root(s) of the missing tooth (teeth) in blue, draw a vertical line through the perio chart in blue. Bracket teeth at the apex in blue. Draw crown portion of restorations as it appears.
FPD (blue)
Reason for extraction noted only if not due to caries
Buccoversion
BV (blue)
Caries
Color in approximate area in solid red
Incipient Caries
Outline approximate area in red
Inc (red)
Questionable Caries
Outline approximate area in red
? (Red)
Recurrent/Seconday Carie’s
Color in approximate area in red
rc (red)
Chipped Tooth
Outline the area or draw fracture line in red
Fx (green)
Composite Restoration
Outline restoration in blue, fill with blue dots
None: charting indicates material
Congenitally missing tooth
Draw a vertical blue line through perio chart
Cong (blue)
Crowding
Bracket spices of teeth involved in blue
Crowd (blue)
Crowns: Gold, Metal
Outline shape of restoration in blue . Fill area with diagonal blue line ///.
None: charting indicates materials
Crowns: tooth colored Crown
(Porcelain, jacket crown, ceramic, zirconium, lithium, disilicate)
Outline shape of restoration in blue. Fill area with blue dots
None: charting indicates material
Crowns: Stainless Steel
Outline restoration in blue, color in solid blue.
SSC (blue)
Crowns: Temporary Crown
Outline in blue
Temp (blue)
Decalcification
Outline approximate area in red
Decal (blue)
Defective Restoration:
(Restoration has partially or completely fallen out or is loose, with decay)
Outline area in red
Def (red)
Denture (Full Removable)
Use diagonal blue line through missing teeth and perio chart.
Note at right of arch
U/D (blue) = maxillary
L/D (blue) = mandibular
Indicate reason for missing teeth other than Caries
Denture (Partial Removal)
Vertical line through missing teeth & perio chart in blue. Bracket teeth involved in blue.
P/ (blue) = maxillary
/P (blue) = mandibular
Indicate reason for missing if not Caries
Denture Removable
Nesbit partial denture
Vertical line through missing teeth & perio chart in blue. Bracket teeth involved in blue.
/P = maxillary (blue)
P/ = mandibular (blue)
Indicate reason for missing if not due to caries
Diastema
Two vertical line between affected teeth in blue
Width of diastema in mm (blue) apical to vertical lines.
3mm ll
ll 2mm
(Maxillary) (mandibular)
Enamel pearl/ Projection
Draw line to area
Ep (blue)
Erosion
Outline area in green
Ero (green)
If several teeth involved, can bracket and note or write under comments with description (severity)
Extraction
- only note reason for ext if NOT due to Caries (in blue at apex)
Examples: perio, imp, crowd, trauma, fix
Extraction: Complete removal not restored
Vertical line through the tooth and perio chart in blue
Extraction: tooth removed and replaced with a FPD
X over the root(s) of the toooth in blue, draw a blue vertical line through the perio chart and draw restoration as it appears.
Extraction: Tooth removed and replaced with an implant
Draw a screw over the roots in blue and draw crown restoration as it appears
Implant (blue)
Extraction: tooth removed and replaced with a Nesbit RPD.
Vertical line through dental & perio chart of missing tooth in blue. Bracket teeth involved at Apices.
P/ (max) or /P (man) at apices (blue)
Extraction: several teeth removed and replaced with a RPD.
Vertical line through dental & perio chart of missing teeth in blue.
P/ ( max) /P (man) at Right of arch
Reason for extraction noted only if not due to caries
Extraction: Fixed Partial Denture (FPD)
Aka bridge
X over root(s) of the missing tooth (teeth) in blue, draw a vertical line through the perio chart in blue. Bracket teeth at apex in blue. Draw crown portion over restorations as it appears.
FPD (blue) reason for extraction noted only if not due to Caries
Fluorosis
Note in comments with severity (mild, moderate, severe) and distribution (localized, generalized)
Fracture
(Chipped restoration/tooth, no obvious Caries)
Outline area or draw fracture line in red
Fx (green)
Fusion
Bracket fused teeth at apex (green)
Fused (green) at apex
Gingival Margin
Draw in gingival margin as it appears in red when it is not located at the CEJ
(I.e recession, gingival enlargement)
Gold: (FGC, gold foil, gold inlay, gold onlay)
Outline restoration in blue as it appears, draw diagonal lines in blue ///
Hypocalcification
If localized, circle area in blue
Hypocal (blue) if localized
Note in comments if generalized
Impacted tooth, unerupted
(Tooth fully impacted)
Circle tooth in red
Impacted, partially
(Tooth also partially erupted)
Circle tooth in red
Pe (blue)
Implant, endosseous
Draw a screw over root(s) in blue
Implant (blue) , write reason for ext at apex if NOT due to caries
Infraversion
IV (blue)
Inlay
Draw restoration as it appears (follow charting for crowns)
Inlay (blue)
Labioversion
LaV (blue)
Lingual Bar Retainer
Draw as it appears in blue
Linguoversion
LiV (blue)
Microdont
Micro (blue)
Mixed Dentition
D over the deciduous tooth # (blue)
In comments: mixed dentition
Onlay
Draw restoration as it appears (following charting for crowns)
Onlay (blue)
Orthodontic Bands
Note in comments
Overhanging margin
Oh (red), bracket to surface (blue)
Partially Erupted Tooth
Pe (blue)
Peg Lateral Incisor
Peg (blue)
Put and Fissure Sealants
Outline sealant in green
P&f (green)
Porcelain restoration
Outline restoration / crown in blue, fill with blue dots
None charting indicates material
Removable partial denture
(See denture)
Retainer (fixed orthodontic retainer)
Draw as it appears in blue
Root amputation/root resection
Draw a blue X over the extracted root(s). Blue vertical line in perio chart over extracted root
Root Canal Treatment
* confirm with radiographs
Draw a line in the filled root canal in blue
None/ charting indicates RCT
Root Fragment (piece of residual root present after extraction)
Outline fragment in red vertical line through tooth & perio chart in blue if not restored. Vertical line through perio chart in blue, X over root(s) in blue with restoration drawn as it appears.
Rf (red)
Space Maintainer
If covers full arch -S/M at the side of perio chart in blue
If only several teeth are involved, bracket teeth in blue and write S/M at apex in blue .
Splint
Draw as it appears in blue
Bracket teeth at apices in blue
Splint(blue)
Supernumery
Draw in tooth (in blue) as it appears
Add charting as needed -Caries, impaction, restoration
Add tooth # ie #55 in blue (See ADA list)
Write note as needed - BV, ue, Pe
Supraversion
Sv (blue)
Temporary Restoration
Outline the restoration as it appears in blue
Temp (blue)
Tilt
Mesial or Distal
Draw an aarow at the apex in blue to indicate direction of tilt/drift.
—> (blue)
<— (blue)
Torsoversion
TV (blue)
Unerupted Tooth
ue (blue)
Veneer (porcelain)
Outline restoration as it appears in blue, fill with blue dots
(Usually full facial aspect & incisal 1/3 on lingual aspect)
Veener (blue)
Wear Faucet
Outline area in green
Wf (green) at apex
Furcation
In red at the indicated furcation
Mobility