Entering a Patient Prescription

Before or after an appointment, the doctor may prescribe medications to fight oral diseases, prevent or treat infections, control pain, or relieve anxiety. Medications prescribed by dentists before or after dental treatment have varied functions for the well-being of the patient.

Watch this video to learn how to enter a prescription for your patient. (Duration: 2:14)

Additional Information

• You can search for a specific prescription by entering the name in the search field to bring up existing prescriptions.

• The default prescription options—for example dispensing and dosage instructions—were set up by your office when you first started using Ascend Academic. Your office administrator can modify them.

• Prescriptions can't be deleted, only voided. There will always be a history that the prescription was prescribed, even if it was a mistake.

• Once voided, a prescription cannot be reactivated.

• To learn more, read Entering prescriptions in the knowledge base.