The Oasis PMS offers graphical charting of existing and proposed treatment.
Whilst it is possible to chart specific items through a menu of all ADA procedures, you can expedite more common or frequently used items through a series of "speed buttons" that are offered as a "toolbar" in the charting screen. Depending on screen mode (and resolution), you may see the toolbar when you open the charting screen, or you may have to select it from the menu in the charting screen. It will display as two panels of 50 buttons (with the last button (100) not used).
There are 99 speed buttons available and you Oasis installation will have come with a standard set of buttons. Clicking the "2" will display the second group of 50 buttons.
These instructions are for altering the characteristics of one of the standard buttons. We are going to target button 37 - the first of the blank buttons on the second row shown above.
Select Preferences, My Work, Charting Speed Buttons.
As you scroll down the list, you will see that 37 is not defined.
Click New at the top of the form to create a new speed button.
Enter button number 37. We will call the button "Fill" and give it button help of "This is a filling" and an item code 511 (single surface metallic filling). We will leave the Display Chart Icon blank. Click OK to save the new speed button.
Now when we load the charting screen, we have the following:
Now you can see the word "Fill" on button 37 and when you hover over it, you can see "37 - This is a filling" - but there is a picture icon displaying on the button as well. Why?
In the ICONS directory on the server, there are icons with specific names that Oasis uses for charting. They are:
CHARTSxx.ico The icons that appear on the actual chart
CHTSPDxx.ico The icons that appear on speed buttons
CHTSYMxx.ico The icons that appear on the "surface enhancements" tooth graphic.
In our case, there is a CHTSPD37.ico in the icons folder, and Oasis draws that icon on the speed button.
If you don't want the icon to appear on the button, you either need to delete it from the icons folder, or rename it to something else (if you want to keep it for some other purpose). The other alternative is to declare a charting icon to display rather than the speed button icon (using field #4 in the Charting Speed Button setup). For our exercise here, we will rename the icon.
Whenever you change icons, you need to re-start Oasis as the icons are loaded at startup.
With the picture re-named, we now have just the word "Fill" on the button.
Now comes the complicated bit. At the moment, the button can be used to add a 511 to a single surface on a tooth, but that is fairly limited. We would really like the button to be able to apply metallic fillings to multiple surfaces on a tooth - but there are five item codes involved - 511, 512, 513, 514 and 515. We really don't want to have 5 speed buttons for this purpose.
To get around this , Oasis uses "pseudo" codes - made up codes that can be used with speed buttons to do various things in the charting system. There is a pseudo code called METALLIC and we are going to change our Fill button (37) to use this pseudo code. At the same time we will look at what the pseudo code does and how it is configured.
Select Preferences, My Work, Charting Toolbox Item Codes and then select the Charting option.
This will open the following screen:
There's a lot to absorb in this screen. There are four main sections (and one of them - Item Codes to Surfaces Selected - does not show unless the Base Item Code on Surfaces Selected is ticked in the Toolbox Options section).