Research guides: Dentistry Mobile Apps: Professional Practice

Apps for Patient Care and Communication with Patients

ADA CDT Code Check
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“The ADA's handy, searchable app contains the most up-to-date CDT Codes, including 15 new dental procedure codes, 5 revised procedure codes, and 4 deleted codes. CDT Codes clearly document a service to a patient and consider the latest clinical advances make for easier coding and faster reimbursement.
Features include:
• A complete listing of 2018 and 2019 CDT Codes including category of service, subcategory, procedure code, nomenclature, and descriptor
• A list of new, revised and deleted codes with tracked changes so you can see exactly what was changed
• Codes searchable by three categories: code number, keyword and category of service
• A “favorites” section for storing frequently used codes”
BoneBox
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“BoneBox™ - Dental Lite is the pocket-sized version of our BoneBox ™ - Dental app. This real-time 3D medical education and patient communication tool, featuring incredibly detailed anatomical models of the human dental anatomy. It is a member of a series of apps developed by a team of anatomists, certified medical illustrators, animators, and programmers using actual human CT imaging data, and the most accurate 3D modeling technology available.
The BoneBox™- Dental Lite is appropriate for use by secondary students, undergraduate and graduate students, and medical professionals.
Interaction with BoneBox™ - Dental Lite utilizes true real-time 3D so the user can place the highly realistic detailed dental anatomy in any position and zoom in to explore all of the anatomical structures. By using the interactive quizzing feature the user will be tested on their knowledge of the human dental anatomy. The user is presented with a random tooth and given 4 multiple choice answers to pick from.”
Dental Manager
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A free app that allows you to develop and send treatment plans directly to your patients' smartphones
DentalNavigator
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"DentalNavigator is an interactive application, which can be used by dentists to explain different methods of treatment to patients [...] Special features are the interactive 3D animations in real time, which can be controlled via the touch-sensitive display. The human skull is 360° rotatable and scaleable via the innovative zoom function of the iPad in order to have a closer look at the condyles and the movement of the mandible [...] DentalNavigator is built modularly and current topics such as checking occlusion, implantology and interactive jaw movement are implemented [...] Within each module high quality 3D animated videos explain various applications as well as products."
In-app purchases available for expanded content. Also available for iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dentalnavi/id448139514?mt=8
Dental Patient Education Lite
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"This is an animation based patient education app for dental professionals to effectively communicate dental conditions and treatment to their patients. This app also offers an anatomical reference tool that can also be used to inform patients, as well as being a useful reference guide.
"The app's animations cover a variety of conditions and treatments in the areas of Prosthodontics, Endodontics, Orthodontics, Periodontics, Oral Surgery, Diagnostics and Prevention. The app also allows users to peel down layers of the jaw to reveal muscles, blood vessels and facial nerves, as well as view each type of tooth individually – with cross sections and superior and inferior views."
A paid version of this app is also available for iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dental-patient-education/id587323410?mt=8
And for Mac computers: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dental-patient-education/id598233865?mt=12
Straumann Patient Education App
"This free app provides a convenient way to communicate the benefits of dental implants and describe treatment options and procedures, and allows dental professionals to customize the learning experience for each patient. It contains patient-friendly information, videos and animated graphics to help dental professionals inform their patients on dental implants solutions."
*The app is free to download, but you must be a registered Straumann customer to access the full content.
"Features include:
-Patient-friendly procedure animations
-Treatment option videos
-Interactive drawing tools
-E-mail and print options for sharing
-Edit and customize options to personalize education
-Full archive for storing custom presentations"

Apps for Office Management

If you purchase or subscribe to equipment, software, or any other materials for your dental office, check to see if the manufacturer offers an app, to enable easy ordering or reordering, or to complement use of the items.

Dental CrossCode™
"Introducing CrossCode™ Online. The renowned desktop program that has helped thousands of dental offices bill medical insurance will now be available without having to download a single byte! CrossCode Online can be instantly accessed on any computer with an internet connection. Now it is even easier to find the right codes, right when you need them! Doing a TMJ case and you want to bill the panorex to the patient’s medical? No problem, with CrossCode Online you can easily find the code you are looking for, including a fee-range and code description. "
Dental CT View
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"DentalCTView is the world's first Dental CT and CBCT Viewer compatible with iPhones, iPads and iPods. Now you can view your Dental CT/CBCT scans on the go! DentalCTView allows you to preview dental computed tomography (CT) or cone beam CT (CBCT) scans on your iOS device. It provides an easily accessible resource for previewing dental CT or CBCT over the internet in a secure and rapid way."
Dental Experts
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"Dental Professionals can use the Dental Experts app to view available shifts and work when they want, where they want, as often as they want. Dental Practices can use our online platform to easily request a clinician, view their profile, approve timecards, and pay invoices, all in one place."
Dentee
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“Dentee - is the most powerful Dental Clinic Management Software, born out of our deep expertise in dental care and passion for leveraging technology to take patient care to next level. Its custom built workflows and treatment plans bring extreme efficiency to your Dental Clinic and streamline patient-on-boarding / EMR Management
Dentee also has a super intuitive personal planner. This free nifty utility lets you view and manage all your appointments from one place. Book new appointments in less than five seconds.”
iDent
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"iDent provides your dental practice with the ability to create a dental technological assessment for your prosthetic cases, including shade maps, options, and notes. Prescriptions can be sent to your iDent equipped dental lab.
"iDent also serves as a communication tool to monitor production and delivery of prosthetics based on personal preference; including but not limited to fixed, removable, implant and repair procedures. You now have a real time experienced technical consultant chair-side."
Denticon
"Denticon is a powerful, web-based dental practice management software application, which can be configured to the needs of any type of dental practice. Sometimes known as web-based or ASP dental practice management software, Denticon's use of internet technology opens the door to 21st century tools and services that are unavailable with traditional dental practice management software. Explore and see how Denticon, and other dental software from Planet DDS, will fit your individual situation."
*Free app, but requires a Denticon account.
RadioVisionInterface
"Connect to your RadioVision database anywhere you have internet access. Great for patient education in the office, or consulting with colleagues offsite."
*This is a free app, but may require purchase of the RadioVision software.
Shade Selector
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"The IPS e.max Shade Selection Wheel from Ivoclar Vivadent helps you to select the suitable block / ingot on the basis of the desired tooth shade and the determined stump shade."

Pharmaceutical Resources

Dental Drugs & Anesthesia
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“Dental Drugs App is a must to have application for dental professionals. It's a quick reference for prescribing medications. It also helps with calculating maximum anesthetic dosages or recalling common treatment protocols in practice.
Features:
- Very simple design for quick reference and anesthetics calculation.
- Access to 100 most common prescribed drugs with their relevant dose, dispensary, instructions and precautions.
- Local dental anesthetics calculator (in both pounds and kilograms for 1.8 and 2.2 ml cartridge).
- No internet required to run the app thus makes it fast and handy.
- App is made by a dentist and is optimized for dentists and dental students.
- Email medication info & instructions to your patients.
- Quick search index to medications.
This app is optimized for use in USA and Canada but still can be useful world wide.”
Epocrates
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Epocrates is a free app that provides you with the information you need to make point-of-care decisions, especially concerning drug prescription and dosage.
Note: A paid subscription to Epocrates+ unlocks additional features.

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