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Some patients cannot consent for themselves. Note Dr writes the capacity assessment and best-interests reasoning as you work, ready to approve.
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Note Dr listens as the appointment unfolds, the patient, the carer and your own findings, and writes the record in the background. So a patient who needs your patience gets you, not the top of your head over a keyboard.
Capacity assessed, decision by decision
Why the patient could or could not weigh this specific choice today, in the words you used, never assumed from a diagnosis.
Best interests, fully reasoned
Who you consulted, the patient's own wishes and the least-restrictive option, recorded as the decision is made, not reconstructed later.
Consent or its lawful basis
Accessible consent where capacity is present, or the documented best-interests basis where it is not, so every treatment has a solid footing.
A reviewed Note Dr record captures more of what a record needs to stand up to scrutiny, capacity, best interests and consent, where published audits show conventional records routinely fall short.
Audits referenced: Cole & McMichael (Primary Dental Care, 2009), Hayes et al (Dental Update, 2017) and, on radiograph evaluation under IR(ME)R, a hospital audit (Kiu et al, Clinical Radiology, 2010).
Ask how capacity was assessed last time, who was consulted, or what was agreed in the patient's best interests, answered in seconds from their own record.
Walk into the review already knowing the story, without trawling the notes.
Special care work leans on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the SDCEP conscious-sedation standards and the Accessible Information Standard, so when a presentation calls for it, Note Dr surfaces the relevant published guidance and its source at the chairside. It never tells you how to treat your patient; that judgement stays with you.
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Why special care dentists trust Note Dr with a record that stands up to scrutiny.
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My capacity assessments are bulletproof
The capacity assessment used to be the hardest part to write up properly. Now it captures the decision, what the patient understood, what they couldn't weigh and the conclusion, in my own words, while I'm still with them. I edit and approve in seconds and nothing is left vague.
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Best interests, written as I decide
Every best-interests decision now records who I consulted and why, the carer, the care home, the GP, at the moment I make it. When records are reviewed, the reasoning reads exactly as it should rather than being reconstructed later.
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My patients get my full patience
A patient who needs breaks and a stop signal doesn't want me typing. Now I can go at their pace, use pictures and reassure them, and the assessment is still written in full. It has genuinely changed how my appointments feel.
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Sedation visits, fully documented
The whole sedation visit is captured as I go: the checks, the titration, the monitoring, the procedure and any clinical holding with assent. The record is finished before recovery is over, and it's the most complete it has ever been.
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Consent I'd be happy to defend
It records accessible consent where the patient has capacity, and the best-interests basis where they don't, without me thinking about it. The lawful basis for every treatment is always there in black and white.
Every recording and record is protected by strong, independently assessed security and encryption.
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When a patient cannot consent for themselves, the record is everything. Note Dr writes the capacity assessment and the best-interests reasoning as I work, so the lawful basis for the care is set down in full while I give the patient my attention.
Dr Hamish TSpecial care dentist
Note Dr structures the best-interests record as you make the decision: the patient's own wishes and feelings, the people consulted such as carers, the care home and an IMCA where required, the options weighed and the least-restrictive choice. The lawful reasoning is set down in full, for you to review and approve.
Yes. As you assess capacity, Note Dr records the specific decision, whether the patient could understand, retain, weigh and communicate it with accessible support, and your conclusion that they have or lack capacity for this choice today. It never infers incapacity from a diagnosis, which the Mental Capacity Act forbids.
Note Dr records the lawful basis for treatment either way. Where capacity is present, it captures accessible consent in the patient's terms. Where it is absent, it documents the best-interests decision, who was consulted and the least-restrictive option, so no treatment ever proceeds without a solid footing in the notes.
Yes. Note Dr drafts the records these visits demand: setting, access and portable equipment for domiciliary care, titration, monitoring and recovery for conscious sedation, and pre-assessment, fasting and recovery for treatment under general anaesthesia, each structured the way your service documents.
Note Dr is built for special care dentistry, not a general chairside scribe. It drafts the capacity assessment, best-interests reasoning, reasonable adjustments and the Accessible Information record, and the notes domiciliary, conscious sedation and general-anaesthesia visits demand, in the language your service uses. You review and approve every note before it enters the record.
Yes. Note Dr attributes the conversation between you, the patient and the carer or support worker, so the carer's history as the person who knows the patient stays separate from the patient's own words and assent. In special care work the accompanying person is often the main historian, so the record shows who said what — and you review every attribution before you approve the note.
Yes. Where clinical holding is used, Note Dr drafts the least-restrictive rationale, who assisted, the patient's assent throughout and that the holding was proportionate to the treatment, documented separately from the procedure itself. Protective stabilisation is a decision that needs its own record in special care dentistry, and you review and approve the wording before it enters the notes.