Sample note:
Crown preparation
Zirconia crown prep on #30, scan, temporary, shade. Transcript on the left, the note as it appears in CareNotes on the right.
Dentist working with an assistant; digital scan rather than impression. No procedure type selected, so the Tx section is narrative only. Names, dates, and identifying details are fictional; the encounter is a composite written for illustration.
What was said
Excerpt. Speech-to-text ran on the phone; this text is all that left the device.
Dentist: Today's the crown prep on the lower right first molar, number thirty. The crack we talked about runs down the distal, so we're covering the whole tooth.
Patient: It hasn't been hurting, just sometimes when I bite on something hard. I noticed it most on the Portland trip last month.
Dentist: That fits. Health history the same? Good. Topical on. Two carpules of two percent lidocaine with epi, block, and half a carpule of Septocaine buccal.
Dentist: Pre-op scan for the temp, done. Starting the prep. Shade, let's look, A3. A3 it is. Zirconia, full coverage.
Dentist: Reduction looks good, occlusal clearance's about one and a half, two millimeters. Chamfer margin all the way around, margins are supragingival on the buccal, slightly sub on the lingual.
Dentist: Cord in, double zero, with hemostatic, no epi. Give that a few minutes. Scanning now. Scan's clean, bite registration captured.
Dentist: Temp out of Luxatemp, trimmed, checking the bite. Cementing with temp cement. Flossed, excess removed.
Dentist: You're numb for a few hours. Soft on that side, floss gently and pull the floss out to the side, not up, so the temp stays. See you in two weeks for the real one.
What CareNotes wrote
The generated note in the CareNotes note viewer, before the clinician's edits and signature. It is interactive.
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How the pills work
No procedure type was selected for this visit, so the Tx section is the AI's narrative alone. When a built-in procedure is selected, CareNotes adds a one-line structured sentence with tappable choices; see the composite, root canal, or extraction sample.
How it lands in the chart
On the free tier the clinician copies this note from the app or carenotes.ai/notes and pastes it into the patient's chart in any practice management system. On Premium the same note is uploaded into the chart in Open Dental, Dentrix Ascend, Eaglesoft, or Curve after the clinician taps Ready to Upload. Headings, order, and wording follow the office's own template; the Progress Note template above is the default.
What to look for
Tooth numbers and surfaces are carried from speech into the note. Anesthetic, carpule count, and technique are written out. Materials and shades are named. The medical history review, consent line, post-operative instructions, and next visit are present even when they were said in passing. Personal details the patient mentioned go to Side Note so the doctor remembers them next time. Anything not said is not invented; if a dose or a step is missing from the recording, the clinician adds it on review.
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