Software for orthodontists: every visit's photos in one chart

Open a patient's Gallery and tap Ortho Chart. Each row is a visit: press Add Row, pick the date, then fill the views you took that day from the camera or the phone's gallery. The columns are the standard intraoral and extraoral views: right and left lateral, front closed bite, front open bite, occlusal views, buccal corridors, and face and smile photos from the front and both sides. Each photo can carry a short comment, such as the wire or elastics you placed.

Read across a column and you see one view changing visit by visit; read down a row and you see one visit from every angle. Tap any photo to see it full size.

Photos are uploaded to your account, so this part needs an internet connection; the rest of the patient file works offline.

Print turns the chart into an A4 landscape page titled Orthodontic Progress Chart, with the patient's name, the visit dates down the side and the photos with their comments. It is useful for the patient's file or for explaining progress at a consultation.

On the paid plans Share copies a link to the chart. The person you send it to opens it inside FindClinica, under Tools, View Shared Chart, and sees the rows and photos without being able to change them. So it suits a referral to a colleague who also uses FindClinica; it doesn't open in an ordinary web browser.

The Video Creator in the phone's Tools turns a patient's photos into a short video: an ortho slideshow (at least four photos) or a before and after comparison (at least three pairs). Patients love seeing their own progress, and, with their permission, it makes good material for the clinic's social media.

Downloading a video needs a paid plan. On Pro the video carries a small FindClinica watermark; on Premium it doesn't. The Video Creator is only on the phone that owns the account, not on the desktop app.

FindClinica comes with an aftercare template for braces, Instructions for crooked teeth, written in English and Urdu: keeping the teeth and braces clean with a soft brush, floss or a water pick, and avoiding sticky or hard food such as chewing gum, chocolate and dates that can pull the brackets off. From the patient's file, Send Instructions sends it on WhatsApp as a link to a page the patient can read in Urdu or listen to. You can change the wording or write your own for retainers or aligners. More on aftercare instructions.

Braces are usually paid in parts: a first payment when the brackets go on, then something at each adjustment. In FindClinica the full fee goes on the treatment, and each visit's payment is added as a follow-up, so the patient's balance is always up to date. The Payments tab shows total charges, total paid and what is still owed.

Book the next adjustment from the phone or the reception computer. The patient gets an SMS confirmation, and on the paid plans a reminder shortly before the visit, which matters when visits are four or six weeks apart and easy to forget.

FindClinica isn't an orthodontic planning system. There is no cephalometric tracing, no bracket or wire log beyond the comments you add, no treatment plan builder and no X-ray viewer; X-rays can be kept in the gallery as images. If you need tracing and treatment simulation, use a dedicated tool for that and FindClinica for the records, photos, fees and appointments.