The Prescription section lets you write, store and print prescriptions for the patient. Every prescription is kept on the record so you always have a complete medication history — what was prescribed, on what date, and by which doctor. This page covers writing a prescription from scratch, the exact meaning of every field in the prescription form, and how to save your most-used medicine combinations as reusable prescription templates so you never have to type the same regimen twice.
What you can do on the Prescription tab
- Review past prescriptions — the list shows each prescription’s ID, Date, prescribing Doctor and Remarks, newest first.
- Write a new prescription — click Add to open the prescription form and build a medicine list line by line.
- View, edit or delete a prescription using the icons on each row.
- Print or share the prescription to hand or send to the patient.
- Create and reuse prescription templates — save a set of medicines once and apply it to any patient in a single click. See Prescription templates below.
How to write a prescription, step by step
- Open the patient record and choose Prescription from the sidebar, then click Add. The prescription form opens as a pop-up.
- Confirm the Patient (shown read-only at the top for safety), choose the Doctor / Provider who is prescribing, and check the Date — it defaults to today.
- Add each medicine in the row at the bottom of the table:
- Medicine — start typing to search your clinic’s medicine list and pick the drug.
- Dosage — three boxes in morning–noon–night order. For example
1–0–1means one in the morning, none at noon, one at night. - Frequency — how often the dose repeats: Daily, Alternate Days, Weekly or Monthly.
- Duration — the number of days to continue (must be 1 or more).
- Instructions/Remarks — a per-medicine note such as “after food”.
Click the + button to add the medicine to the list, then repeat for the next one. Use the circular clear button to reset the row without adding it.
- Add a general Remark for the whole prescription if needed. You can type it, or use the microphone (speech-to-text) button to dictate it.
- Click Submit. The prescription is saved to the patient’s history, where you can then view, print or share it.
Prescription templates — write once, reuse forever
Most dentists prescribe the same handful of regimens again and again — a standard post-extraction combination, a root-canal antibiotic-and-painkiller course, and so on. A prescription template stores a named set of medicines (with their dosage, frequency, duration and remarks) so you can drop the whole regimen into any patient’s prescription in one click. Templates are saved per clinic: once you create one, every doctor and every user in that office can use it on any patient.
Create a template
- Open Add on the Prescription tab and build the medicine list exactly as you would for a normal prescription — add every medicine with its dosage, frequency, duration and remarks.
- In the bottom-left corner of the form, type a clear Template name — for example “Post-Extraction” or “RCT Course”.
- Click Add Template. The current medicine list (and the remark) is saved as a template and immediately becomes available to the whole clinic.
Tip: you can save a template while you are writing a real prescription — adding the template does not submit the prescription. Build the list once, click Add Template to store it, then click Submit to also prescribe it for the patient in front of you.
Apply a saved template
- Open Add to start a new prescription for the patient.
- Open the “– Saved Templates –” dropdown at the top right of the form and choose the template you want.
- The medicine list — and the remark — fill in automatically. Adjust anything that is patient-specific (for example a different duration), choose the Doctor / Provider, then click Submit.
Because a template only supplies the starting point, you are always free to add, remove or edit medicines before submitting — the patient’s saved prescription reflects what you submit, not the template itself.
