5 of the Best Dental Apps

It’s common for dentists to quickly check their smartphones in-between patients, whether to text friends or family, look up amusing photos of cats, or something else along similar lines. However, smartphones and tablets can also prove potent tools for helping with dental responsibilities. You could be surprised by how many promising dental apps you find once you start looking through the iOS App Store, Google Play or Windows Store – and here are five that we would especially recommend.

DDS GP

The DDS GP app might be very pricey for a mobile app – but, as would have applied to your smartphone when you originally shelled out a lot of money for it, you should definitely find yourself using it a lot. The app is basically intended for enabling dental professionals to more easily show conditions and treatments to patients. It comes with over 200 unique demonstrations, and you can tap and drag to show the severity of conditions including decay, periodontal disease and cracks.

CBCT

For a dental professional today, knowing how to read CBCT scans is vital. The CBCT app provides a number of generously-labelled sample scans, and looking at these can help you to discern how to read CBCT scans that you come across as part of your work. One particularly strong endorsement is that thoroughly experienced dentist Joshua Austin recommends the CBCT app while admitting to having not personally been trained to read CBCT scans at dental school.

Lexicomp

Traditionally, many dentists have, every year or two, purchased Lexicomp’s Drug Information Handbook for Dentistry to ensure that, whenever the need arises, they can quickly look up medications – whether those be medications to be prescribed for patients, or medications that patients are already taking. However, getting a Lexicomp subscription and downloading this app ensures that a much more up-to-date resource – Lexicomp actually updates its databases daily – can be at hand.

Dentistry IQ News & Resources

If you’ve got an iPhone or iPad running iOS 9, you’ll probably be familiar with Apple’s News app, which allows users to collate stories from a range of sources for a highly customised news-reading experience. The app Dentistry IQ News & Resources is in a similar vein, except more obviously suited to dental professionals who want to keep up to date with what’s going on in their sector. Dentistry IQ, Dental Economics and Apex360 are among the outlets that you can read and save content from.

Microsoft OneNote

As a dentist, you can find a good note-taking app a godsend for promptly entering and saving patient history forms and clinical notes on your smartphone. Though there’s a good range of feature-rich note-taking apps to choose from, we are pretty keen on Microsoft OneNote. This is largely because OneNote is available across a huge range of platforms, both mobile platforms like iOS and Android and computer operating systems like Windows and OS X – while all notes taken can be saved straight to the cloud. You could also find it useful for keeping track of what dental supplies to buy.