Charting that explains the treatment plan

When the patient sees what you saw, the plan explains itself. That is why the chart is drawn like an X-ray.

Most patients cannot read an X-ray. They nod, but they do not really see. Then the treatment plan reaches them as a list of words and a total, and the total is all they remember. The conversation becomes about money, not about their mouth. A chart the patient can understand changes the whole conversation.

Dr Kedar learnt the other way in his own practice. He goes ahead with the charting first, and explains the whole plan on it. Patients have agreed to large plans, and even paid in advance, only on the basis of a clear chart. He also gives the plan himself, and quickly: the CBCT report reaches him before the patient does, so the plan is crisp that same day.

The moment I started giving treatment plan on my own, my cases started turning up. — Dr Kedar Bakshi

Drawn like an X-ray

So the Six Figures chart looks the way the patient's X-ray looks. Decay is drawn dark, as on the film. A fracture line runs where it runs. An impacted tooth sits in the position the OPG shows. Bone loss, furcation, mobility and the size of a lesion are drawn and written on the chart. An implant carries its diameter and length. For a child, the chart follows the age, with the new teeth growing below the milk teeth.

From there, one tap turns the chart into a treatment plan. Every finding becomes a row, with your fee already filled in and the total estimate at the bottom. Then the chart and the plan go to the patient's phone on WhatsApp. At home he opens the same picture you showed him, sees each step in order, and shows the family who will decide with him.