Treatment Game Plan
PREGAME
Review appointments for the next week.
Complete Routers
Post it on the router and huddle discussion with any questions or concerns
Also, print sign treatment, and include consents to be signed the day of appointment. Paper clip these papers.
CHECKING INTO THE GAME
Confirm guardian, ID
Review tx
Consent to nitrous
Consent to treatment
Collect balance due
Signed nitrous, extraction, treatment plan is attached to the chart
Review Parent Attendance Policy (have them sign it)
Change INDICATOR to READY
GAMETIME
Verify set up with picture set up/lists
Change indicator to IN TX ROOM
Get chart
Call parent into check out area to review treatment. 7 and up ask parent to sit in lobby and we will call them if we need them. If they choose to sit the in car they can receive a vibrator at check out. Number written on the router.
Take patient to room
Set up patient with bib, glasses, nitrous if being used, size isolate.
Open X-rays and odontogram
If extraction or pulp and crown make sure we have PA. If not, take the PA Before setting indicator ready for doc
If waiting, introduce the items to the patient.
As soon as doc walks into the room, begin to place isolite or mouth prop.
Restoration
Initial procedures completed. Add any xrays. If patient is eligible for sealants and pano and we have consent for them then take them at treatment appointment.
Next visit is clear on router. If more treatment needed, then what teeth. If recall, what is the date of the appointment?
Clean room while patient is on oxygen or just sitting there.
If the parent is in the car, call the parent first. Then take the patient to check out to discuss tx completed, post op instructions, and proposed next visit or referrals.
If next visit is tx, Transfer patient to parent and parent to TC.
If next visit is recall, let parent know the date of the recall exam and walk them out.
TC will change INDICATOR to NEEDS ATTN
NEEDS ATTN
All procedures are initialed
Confirm all consents and referrals are scanned.
Notes are complete and correct.
Notes using the template. If no nitrous was used state no nitrous was used. If doing crowns tell the teeth # and size used in the allotted place. If giving pain medicine, What kind and how much based on what age?
Next visit is clear on router and in note.
END GAME
TC will turn it gray when billing is complete.
Lead assistant will review all NEEDS ATTN indicators. Once complete will change indicator to CHECK OUT.