Sample note:
Root canal treatment
Endodontic treatment on #14, three canals, working lengths, obturation. Transcript on the left, the note as it appears in CareNotes on the right.
General dentist completing single-visit endodontic treatment. Procedure type set to RCT. 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: We're doing the root canal on the upper left first molar, number fourteen. The test last week showed that nerve's not responding and you had the lingering cold sensitivity before, so irreversible pulpitis is the diagnosis. Any change in your medical history? Any antibiotics?
Patient: Nope, same as before. Just trying to get this done before I start the new job Monday.
Dentist: We'll have you out of here. Topical, then two carpules of lidocaine with epi buccal and a half on the palate. Let's test it, cold on fourteen. Nothing. Good. Dam on.
Dentist: Access through the occlusal, through the existing composite. Found MB, DB, and palatal. Looking for MB two. Not finding a second MB, orifice looks single.
Dentist: Working lengths with the apex locator, confirm with a radiograph. MB nineteen and a half, DB twenty, palatal twenty-one and a half. Reference cusp tips.
Dentist: Rotary files to thirty-five oh four in all three. Irrigating with sodium hypochlorite throughout, EDTA at the end, dry with paper points.
Dentist: Obturating with gutta percha and bioceramic sealer, warm vertical. Final film looks good, fills to length, no extrusion.
Dentist: Cotton and Cavit for now. You need a crown on this tooth, we talked about that, let's book it. Ibuprofen tonight, expect some soreness biting for a few days.
What CareNotes wrote
The generated note in the CareNotes note viewer, before the clinician's edits and signature. It is interactive.
Marcus L.
How the pills work
Procedure type was set to RCT before recording, so the Tx section ends with the built-in RCT sentence. Each bracketed value is a pill: the value heard in the recording fills it, and tapping it opens the full option list (tooth number, anesthetic, technique, materials). A pill with a star is this doctor's saved default; starring a choice in the picker makes it the starting value next time the same procedure is selected. An empty dashed pill, like Rx here, is a blank the doctor can fill or leave. The words around the pills are editable prose.
How it lands in the chart
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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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