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