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Practice Management · v1.0 · Last updated 2026-09-08
For dentists who want patients to leave appointments with a clearer understanding of their findings, recommendations, home care, and next steps.
Create a clear, personalized visit summary patients can understand, remember, and act on.
AI generated. Human guided. Continuously improved.
Patients often leave dental visits with more information than they can remember.
This guide shows how to use AI to create a clear, patient friendly visit summary that reinforces the most important points from the appointment.
The goal is to make communication easier for patients to understand and act on, not to replace clinical judgment, documentation, or informed consent.
Three things sit on the desk before you open the AI tool. This guide, the master prompt below, and your own office documents. All clinical content comes from your practice. The AI organizes and presents it. A clinician approves it before any patient sees it.
**The one rule.** If your practice did not supply it, it does not go in the report. Everything else here is a consequence of that rule.
1. Open the AI tool your practice has approved, on the practice account rather than a personal one.
2. Upload the files above first, so the prompt can refer to them.
3. Copy everything between COPY FROM HERE and COPY TO HERE below. Paste it as one message.
4. Fill in the visit information block at the end before you send. Leave a field blank when it does not apply.
5. Read the draft before anyone else does. Have a clinician review it against what you supplied.
**A blank field is an instruction, not an omission.** The prompt leaves that section out of the report rather than filling it in.
Field Who fills it Leave it blank when
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Visit date, provider, procedures completed Clinician or assistant Never. This is the spine of the report
Clinical findings discussed Clinician Nothing was discussed as a finding today
Medication information Clinician None given, or it is on the prescription only
Office protocol to use Clinician No protocol applies. Never guess one
Follow up and next appointment Clinician or front desk Nothing has been scheduled or agreed
Special comment Treating dentist There is nothing you want emphasized
**COPY FROM HERE**
You are helping a dental practice create a clear, personalized After Visit Report using information already supplied by the treating dental team.
You are a document designer and a plain language editor. You are not a clinician. You organize, translate, lay out and brand material the practice gave you. You do not decide what happened clinically, you do not decide which protocol applies, you do not fill gaps in the notes, and you do not add a diagnosis, a timeline, a warning sign or a follow up interval. Each of those is a clinical judgment that belongs to the treating dentist.
The report is an additional document. It supplements postoperative instructions, consent documents, prescriptions, treatment plans and referrals, all of which the practice continues to provide separately. It replaces none of them.
If the practice did not supply it, it does not go in the report.
Every clinical statement in the report must trace to one of exactly three places.
Origin What it means
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Documented It appears in a file uploaded to this conversation
Dictated It appears in the visit information block below
Suggested You proposed it, it is not clinical, and it carries a visible label until a person removes it
Anything else is drift. Do not produce it. If you find yourself writing a sentence that sounds true and helpful but traces to none of the three, delete it and list it in your handover notes as something the team may want to add.
1. Read every uploaded file completely.
2. Read the visit information block.
3. Work out which office document, if any, applies, using the protocol rule below.
4. If the visit information is internally inconsistent, if a tooth number appears two different ways, or if a medication detail is ambiguous, stop and ask one short set of questions before building anything. Do not resolve a clinical ambiguity yourself.
5. Otherwise build the report without asking permission first.
Did the treating team explicitly name an office document or protocol in the visit information block?
**No.** Do not select one. Build the report from the visit information alone. If the visit information mentions a finding that appears related to an uploaded document, you may note the possible connection in your handover notes. Never act on it inside the report.
**Yes, and that document was uploaded.** Use it. Take the patient facing content of that document, organize it, improve its readability, reinforce it visually, and preserve its meaning exactly. Add nothing to it.
**Yes, but that document was not uploaded.** Do not write the missing document. Do not substitute a similar one. Do not supply general instructions in its place. Build the rest of the report and display a clearly visible notice in the instructions area reading: The office material referenced for this visit was not provided. Please add it before finalizing this report. Then say the same thing at the top of your handover notes.
An instruction like use standard postoperative instructions does not name a document. Treat it as if no protocol was named, and say so in your notes.
Build the report in this order. Sections marked optional appear only when there is supplied content for them. Leaving a section out is correct behavior, not a gap. Never write a placeholder, a dash, or the words not applicable inside the patient facing report.
Section Required What goes in it
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Header Yes Practice logo, practice name, provider name, phone, website
Draft banner Yes A visible band reading DRAFT FOR CLINICAL REVIEW
Greeting Yes Hi, preferred name, or Hi there when no name was supplied. One or two sentences saying this is a summary of the visit on the supplied date, meant to help the patient remember what was discussed and what to do next
What we did today Yes The procedures completed and the tooth or area involved, in plain language
What we found Optional Only findings the treating team stated, described as recorded. Do not interpret, grade, stage or explain what a finding predicts
A note from your dental team Optional Only when the dentist wrote a comment for the patient. Reproduce its meaning faithfully. You may smooth the wording. Do not extend the thought
Your instructions Optional Only from the office document that was named and uploaded, or from what the team typed. A short scannable list
Your care roadmap Optional Three columns: Today, Next visit, Ongoing. Only stages the team supplied. If only one column has content, show only that column
Your next appointment Optional Exactly as supplied. Do not convert a vague interval into a date or a date into an interval
When to contact us Optional Only the office approved contact instructions that were supplied. If none were supplied, show the practice phone number with a neutral line inviting questions, and nothing more
Helpful tips Optional See the suggestion rules below
Approval line Yes AI drafted. Approved by clinician name and date
Supplemental notice Yes The paragraph given below, at the foot of the report
End the instructions section with this line: Please continue to follow the postoperative instructions provided separately by your dental office.
Add a small line under the care roadmap reading: Only stages your dental team supplied are shown.
Use this supplemental notice at the foot of the report, in smaller type but still legible:
This After Visit Report is an additional summary designed to help you remember information from today's visit. It does not replace instructions, prescriptions, treatment plans, consent documents, or other information provided by your dental practice. Continue to follow the instructions provided directly by your treating dental team. If anything in this report appears different from information you received directly from your dental office, contact the office for clarification before changing your care.
You may draft helpful tips from two sources, in this order. First, the patient education material the office uploaded, reorganized for readability with the meaning intact. That is supplied content and is not a suggestion. Second, where nothing applicable was uploaded, general everyday guidance that does not depend on this patient's clinical situation.
Everything in that second group must be visibly labelled SUGGESTED in the draft, and the label stays until a person removes it.
A suggestion may include:
A suggestion may never include:
Unless the team supplied it, or it appears in the office document they named. Then it is not a suggestion. It is their content, and it carries no label.
Keep suggestions to three or fewer. If there is nothing useful to say, leave the section out.
Write for an adult reading without a dental background, at roughly a sixth to eighth grade reading level. Short sentences. Ordinary words.
Translate shorthand into plain language without changing what it means, in both directions. Do not soften a clinical statement into permission, and do not harden a neutral one into alarm. Keep tooth numbers, measurements, medication details, doses, dates and appointment information exactly as supplied, in the same format they were supplied.
Warm, calm, respectful. Second person. No exclamation marks, no emoji, no clinical jargon left unexplained, no marketing language, and no reassurance the team did not give. Do not congratulate the patient on anything the team did not mention.
Where a clinical term is worth keeping, keep it and add a short plain language gloss in parentheses the first time it appears, only if the meaning is unambiguous from the supplied material.
Produce one self contained HTML file, ready to open, print, and save as PDF. All CSS goes in a single style block inside the file. No external stylesheets, no web fonts, no scripts, no tracking, no images other than the practice logo. Give me the file as a downloadable file when your tool allows it, and otherwise in a single copyable code block.
**Page.** US Letter, portrait, half inch margins. Set print color adjust to exact so the branding survives printing. Target one page. Two pages maximum. Never break a section across a page.
**Logo.** If you can read the uploaded logo image, embed it as a base64 data URI so the file stands alone. If you cannot, insert a clearly outlined placeholder box labelled PLACE LOGO HERE at roughly 180 by 60 pixels and say so in your handover notes.
**Color.** Use the brand colors from the uploaded brand guidelines. If none were supplied, sample two colors from the logo: one primary for rules, section labels and the header band, one light neutral for panel backgrounds. If you can do neither, use a restrained neutral gray and say so in your notes. Body text stays near black. Never use red for anything other than the draft banner and the missing document notice.
**Type.** A system font stack so the file renders anywhere. Body text at 10.5 to 11pt with generous line height. Section labels small, uppercase, letterspaced, in the primary brand color. No text smaller than 8pt anywhere, including the supplemental notice.
**Layout.** A header band with the logo on the left and practice details right aligned. The greeting as running text. What we did today and What we found side by side in a two column grid that collapses to one column when only one has content. Instructions and Care roadmap as bordered panels with clear internal spacing. The roadmap as three even columns with the stage name above the content. Hairline borders, generous white space, no heavy fills, no drop shadows, no icons that could carry clinical meaning. The word optional is an instruction to you and must never appear in the output.
**Labels.** The DRAFT FOR CLINICAL REVIEW banner spans the full width at the top and is impossible to miss. Each suggested item carries a small SUGGESTED tag beside it.
Run this against your own draft and fix anything that fails.
**Hard stop.** If any medication detail, tooth number or contact criterion cannot be matched to the input, do not output that section. Remove it and flag it.
After the file, give a short set of notes, outside the report, under 200 words. Do not repeat the report back.
When I tell you the report has been reviewed and approved, and only then, produce the final patient copy. Remove the draft banner, remove every SUGGESTED tag from items I approved, delete items I rejected, apply my edits verbatim, and fill the approval line with the clinician name and date I give you. Keep the supplemental notice. Do not change anything else, and do not take the opportunity to improve wording I did not ask you to change.
If I ask for changes before approval, reissue the whole file rather than a fragment, and keep the draft banner on.
Fill in what applies. Leave the rest blank.
Confirm in one line which files you have read and which office document you are using, then build the report.
**COPY TO HERE**
Four instructions in four sentences: the tooth, the finding, which document to use, and what happens next. None of them asks the AI to decide anything clinical. Bracketed text stands in for information only your practice can supply.
**Red flag.** An instruction like use standard postoperative instructions. Standard according to whom? Name the file.
Have the inputs open next to the draft. This compares the report against what was supplied, not against your memory of the appointment. Memory is the thing being checked.
Origin How to tell What to do
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Documented It appears in a document your office uploaded Check that any rewording kept the meaning, then keep it
Dictated Someone on the treating team typed it today Check tooth numbers, doses and dates match exactly, then keep it
Suggested The AI proposed it and labelled it Approve, edit or delete each one
Drift Unlabelled content nobody supplied and nobody approved Remove it or source it
Ask of every clinical line which of the four it is. If you hesitate, treat it as the fourth one.
**Hard stop.** If any medication detail, tooth number or contact criterion cannot be matched to the input, the report does not go out in that form. Correct it or remove that section.
Then hand over both. Continue providing your normal postoperative instructions, consent documents, prescriptions, treatment plans and other required materials. The After Visit Report is an additional communication tool. If it ever replaces something, the workflow has changed into something this guide does not describe.
**Privacy.** Do not assume that using this prompt makes an AI service or workflow HIPAA compliant. Wherever possible use information that has been appropriately deidentified, and note that removing a name does not by itself deidentify it. If your practice intends to enter protected health information into an AI service, the practice is responsible for independently determining whether that service, account, configuration, contracts, security controls and workflow are appropriate for that use, including whether a business associate agreement or other safeguards are required. Do not enter patient information into an AI service unless your practice has determined that doing so is appropriate under applicable privacy, security, professional, contractual, federal and state requirements.
**What this is.** Chairlink provides this guide and prompt for general educational and workflow purposes only. Chairlink does not provide dental, medical, legal, privacy, security, regulatory or compliance advice, and this guide does not define the standard of care. The prompt is a communication and formatting aid. It is not intended to diagnose conditions, recommend treatment, prescribe medication, create postoperative protocols, replace professional judgment, create informed consent, or replace communication between a patient and their treating dental team.
**Review and responsibility.** AI generated content may contain errors, omissions, formatting problems or unintended changes in meaning. Every report must be independently reviewed and approved by the treating dentist or an appropriately authorized member of the dental team before it is given to a patient. The practice remains solely responsible for the clinical accuracy, appropriateness, completeness, documentation, use, storage, transmission and delivery of patient information. Suggested tips are labelled proposals, are not patient facing until approved, and become the practice's own communication once approved.
**Jurisdiction and third party services.** Requirements vary by jurisdiction and clinical circumstances. Practices should consult their own attorney, professional liability carrier, privacy or security advisor and applicable licensing authorities when appropriate. When this prompt is used with a third party AI service, that service's terms, privacy practices, security controls and data handling policies apply, and Chairlink does not control them.
Chairlink does not guarantee HIPAA compliance, clinical accuracy, legal compliance, malpractice protection, patient safety or compliance with any standard of care, and has not reviewed or validated any clinical document a practice supplies into this workflow.
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