Dental Software Versus Special Dental Formats
Parallel with the development of the dental software many software products, that are not originally created as medical or dental software were adjusted to work for dental purposes. In many cases these adjustments were successful. For example patient database software in many dental offices were replaced by software products for general database management, such as Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, the legally free distributed Open Office variations of the above. Access and Excel files, structured according to the need of the patient management(defining fields as Patient Name, Ambulatory Number, Diagnose, etc.) in many cases are sufficient to represent functional, secure, powerful and intuitive for usage patients database, powerful concurrence of the expensive dental patient management software products. The disability of the text processing software to write the numbers of the dental teeth graphically(and thus unable to write and print dental patient reports) was overcame by the creation of dental fonts, that can be used in Microsoft Word and legally free text processing software products, such as Open Office Write and Abi Word. Readily made forms for dental patient report writing and printing appeared to be sufficient for the generation(by the dental practitioner, not automatically) dental patient records and their printing. Dental schedules management software can in a high degree be replaced with standard schedule management software projects, created for schedule management for general purposes, some of which can legally be downloaded for free. For processing of dental images were used many software products for genetral image processing, such as Adobe Photoshop, Irfwan View and others. Processing dental images with software products for general pictures processing proved to be powerful, easy to use, reliable, and much cheaper(in some cases free). Dental treatment planning software was "replaced" with legally scanned and legally purchased via internet books over the treatment topic, opened with ebooks opening software and shortcuts, designed to open the book on specific pages. For calculating hard to be calculated dental bills were used specially adjusted Microsoft Excel Sheets, instead of Dental Biling Softare. Many dentists are successful in receiving computer aided dental education without the usage of software for this purpose, by finding and purchasing ebooks, lectures from the websites of medical universities, browsing the Medline MEDLINE and other medical and dental databases, using usual email clients for communication via email and materials interchange via email, using internet explorer and other web browsers for participating in dental forums, and using e-learning, that do not require the purchasing of software. So far now the only type of dental software, for which special formats are not effective enough is the diagnostics helping software.
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