Dental dictation or an AI scribe?

Start with how you want to capture the appointment. Speak a focused summary, or work from a broader conversation. Both workflows need your review.

Dental dictation

You choose what to say.

Speak the findings and details you want in the record, during the appointment or as a summary afterwards.

  1. Speak selected details
  2. Transcribe or structure
  3. Review the draft
What goes in
A deliberate summary of the relevant facts.
What you check
Check wording, tooth numbers and any details you left out.

Consider it when you prefer to guide the note as you go.

Ambient AI scribing

The conversation becomes the input.

Capture a broader consultation conversation. The software selects information and organises it into a draft.

  1. Capture the conversation
  2. Select and summarise
  3. Review the draft
What goes in
A broader recording with more context to interpret.
What you check
Check what was selected, omitted or misunderstood.

Consider it when you prefer to review a summary after the conversation.

Product names overlap. Dictation tools can use AI too; check what each product actually records, generates and transfers into your practice software.

In ToothNotes

Your template. Your voice. Your final review.

Start with a reusable template, type or capture voice details, then edit the assembled note. Connect your phone to the desktop recording workflow when it suits you. Copy the finished note into your PMS once you’ve checked it.

See the ToothNotes walkthrough

Try it against your working day.

Use the same fictional appointment to compare the workflows from capture to finished note.

  1. Your language

    Try dental terminology, tooth numbers and uncertain findings using fictional details.

  2. Your structure

    Check whether the draft fits the way you document an appointment.

  3. Your whole workflow

    Include the time spent correcting, reviewing and transferring the note into your PMS.

  4. Your data

    Read the recording, hosting and retention information before using patient data.

Try your workflow in ToothNotes.

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