How to use open emr for dental practice

Name of Company
Citizen dental care , egypt

Job Title
G.m and owner

Im new her , im seaking to configure how to use open emr in dental practice

I can’t figure out how to use or to build any form with emr

Im a dentist with no experience in programming and this stuff

Hello @Ahmedebraheem,

you’re officially welcome to OpenEMR.

There are couple of ways you can use to create forms in OpenEMR.

  1. Layout Based Forms (LBF)
  2. Custom forms
    a. XML
    b. HTML & PHP

** LBF doesn’t require programming skills at all though there’s a little learning curve involved. It’ll take a little bit of playing around to be able to get used to. This is approach has limitations to look and feel. It is rigid.
Check out the presentation on LBF by @gutiersa tutorial
Check here for Form Creation Tools

** The custom forms involves programming skills. The level of customization to the look and feel is endless. This definitely requires programming expertise.

Kindly let me know how i can be of help.
Feel free to send me an email on knapps.appiah@gmail.com

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With Layout Based Forms (LBF) you can create a form similar to this:

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Can this be recreated? Periodontal Chart online - www.perio-tools.com

there’s deep functionality there. updated averages, images and color coding that responds to numbers entered.

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Hello @tatakai -
That looks to me like you would need actual php- coded forms to deliver those features. I’m not a dev but I do know that LBFs and html by themselves are not capable of obtaining the information required.- HT

I guess so. it would be great if these tools were integrated into openemr. https://www.perio-tools.com/

went ahead and tried messaging them. The eye exam form is of that nature?

The eye exam form is a php coded data form, yes.

OpenEMR depends on contributions of code to be able to feature new tools. If you do get those forms built for your practice, please consider donating them to the OpenEMR project for everybody’s use!