Using the Dental Arch Filter

You can use the Dental Arch Filter to filter images displayed in the Patient History according to the following criteria:

Tooth number
Image acquisition modality (intraoral, panoramic, cephalometric, and so on)

The Dental Arch Filter contains the following functions:

Dental Arch Filter

Filter by one or more tooth numbers using the following indications:

Light gray tooth: Images are available
Dark gray tooth: No images are available
Blue items: Currently active filter elements

Dentition Icons

Switch between adult and deciduous teeth.

Modality Filter

Filter by the acquisition modalities that are available for the current patient.

For example, if only cephalometric images are available, this function will only display Cephalometric.

Note: If you close the Dental Arch Filter, your filter selection will be reset.

You cannot use the Dental Arch Filter and the Date filter at the same time.

Prerequisite:

If you are in the Patient Browser standalone mode, select a patient in the Patient List. All image thumbnails for the selected patient are displayed in the Patient History.

To use the Dental Arch Filter, follow these steps:

In the Patient History tools, click Filter. The Dental Arch Filter is displayed above the Patient History.
In the Dental Arch Filter, click the dentition icon (B) to select either permanent (adult) or deciduous (child) teeth. The Dental Arch Filter (A) changes to the adult/child tooth number array.
Do any of the following:
In the Dental Arch Filter (A), click on one or more light gray teeth to select tooth numbers. The Patient History displays thumbnails for the selected tooth numbers.

The associated tooth numbers are determined by the tooth numbering system selected in the Imaging Preferences.

You can select as many tooth numbers with images as you want.

In the Modality Filter (C), click one or more modality types (for example Panoramic). The Patient History automatically refreshes the display to show only images for the selected modalities.
To reset the filter, click All in the Modality Filter (C).
Click selected teeth, (in blue) , to deselect related images.
To hide the Dental Arch Filter, click Filter.