In every walk of life, apps are making people’s lives better just as they are enhancing professionals’ productivity and efficiency. This is the case even in the world of dentistry where dentists are relying on useful apps that are focused on oral and dental health. Instead of busy dentists wasting time searching for apps that are useful to them from a never-ending list, here are some mobile applications that are different for the various aspects of your professional life.
If you are in search for the Best Apps For Dentists, choose from among these. All the apps mentioned here are supported by iOS, though some may operate on Android and Blackberry too.
dCStory: Patient Education
Patient education tools play a critical role in sending difficult to understand clinical information to patients in an easy-to-understand style. This app provides several options of treatment plans and educational counseling with the help of high-definition 3D images.
Patients can see more than 200 complex dental procedures, X-rays and photos. This app also gives you the opportunity to write out or sketch extra data on the image itself with the help of a stylus. This data can be printed or mailed online to the patient for viewing and reading at home.
DDS GP (Dental Demo Suite General Practice): Patient Education:
Dental Demo Suite GP (DDS GP) is the most wide-ranging app for patient education. With this app, patients can see numerous dental problems and their treatments. Stock images are part of this app, but patient images can also be uploaded into an image library. With each image, particular points relating to a dental condition can be marked for discussion. This app is available on Blackberry, Android and iOS platforms.
Canvas, Note Taker HD, GoodNotes, Penultimate: Patient Forms/Clinical Note Taking:
Using this app, patient history forms and your clinical notes can be entered and saved on laptops or PCs which are synced with mobile phones. Here, you can also get predesigned forms for dental history in app form and data entry with barcode scanning.
Apart from Canvas, other apps like Note Taker HD, GoodNotes and Penultimate have provision for notes to be taken freehand directly onto a tablet phone and saved on it as a digital file. Here, PDF files can also be uploaded and interpreted for you and your patients to understand and record as required documentation.
Box: Data Access & Management:
This cloud-based app lets users create and share folders and files safely from a computer or mobile. At your practice, this app can be used as a back up to manage your documents in digital format and put them all together in one online platform. These documents could be patient history forms or consent forms for operations that can be saved when completed and exchanged through a good online file sharing medium and later accessed even at reception or any other location.
This gives you and your staff the advantage of working on these forms and documents at a location away from the practice. It also provides data encryption facilities and is capable of handling several file types such as, docx, .pdf and .xls.
ePocrates Rx:
This app is a free online clinical reference library whose scope extends to being a guide for drugs, provider of information for formulations and a checker of drug interactions. It also provides free updates on medical news and is easy to download and use.
It is available in several versions, particularly those that deal in data on diagnosis of the disease, images, alternative medicine, diagnostic tests, insurance and a medical dictionary whose price ranges from $99 to $199 annually. With this app, you can easily access vast chunks of information relating to drugs for adults and children and their dosages, contraindications and interactions. It always presents updated information and is easily accessible.
Dental Expert:
If you have patients who want to know just what you are going to do for them and why, perhaps you, as a dentist, should invest in the app Dental Expert. This app is one great resource that provides such information to your patients.
From this app, your patients can get not just general information, but also handy tips on practicing good dental habits. It also gives you options on what kind of dental care you should take, should you have a few teeth missing or damaged. It also explains the hallowed procedure, root canal treatment.
Once your patients are knowledgeable about their oral health, they will come in to your office for a checkup undaunted, which will help you to serve them better and instill confidence in them while in the dentist’s chair.
MyDentist:
Provided by Dental Anywhere, this app is perhaps the best in the realm of patient communication. Using this app, patients can explain their problems to you by sending you text, diagrams and photos. When you receive their messages, you can send them succinct instructions, particularly in times of emergency. With this mode of communication, you can fix appointments with your patients, among other things.
Medscape Mobile:
If you want a ready reckoner for clinical referencing, this one is the best. By using this app, you can check on the correct dosages to prescribe your patients, besides also looking up drug interactions, if any. It also keeps updating news in the dental world. Medscape Mobile is free to use and is available on all platforms such as iOS, Android and Blackberry.
Dental Manager:
With this app, you can calculate your costs and set up a treatment plan for patients, by downloading this onto your Smartphone. You can also track your patients and have their detailed notes and contact details. Using this app’s cost assessment tool and treatment planning tool, you can discuss with your patients and arrive at the best solution for an improvement in their oral health. Sharing information between co-workers is another facility offered here.
Summary
No matter what aspects of a dentist’s life take up all his time and energy, there’s always an energetic and productive app waiting to be used, just to make his life easy, and himself more relevant and useful to his patients.
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