Periodontal charting, by voice.
Six sites per tooth, margin and probing depth, bleeding, plaque, mobility, furcation. You probe and you speak — the arch advances on its own. No second operator to write it down, no re-entry after the appointment.
Runs locally · patient data never leaves the clinician's machine.
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ParoScope at a glance
- What it is
- Periodontal charting and follow-up software filled in by voice, used chairside on a computer, tablet or room screen.
- Who it is for
- Dentists (general practice and periodontics) and dental hygienists who treat periodontitis.
- The core
- Dictated charting: six sites per tooth, gingival margin and probing depth, bleeding, plaque, suppuration, mobility, furcation — spoken in one flow, placed automatically.
- What it covers
- History, assessment and charting, diagnosis per the 2018 classification, treatment plan towards EFP endpoints, re-evaluation, maintenance and PRA risk profile, patient documents.
- Your data
- Local-first: the record, the chart and the images stay in the clinician's browser. The server stores no health data.
- The references
- 2018 classification (World Workshop), EFP endpoints (Sanz et al. 2020), PRA (Lang & Tonetti 2003), Socransky complexes, peri-implantitis (Berglundh et al. 2017).
- What it does not do
- It makes no diagnosis, issues no prescription and does not replace your practice management software. Prototype — not a medical device.
You speak the way you probe.
Not a voice command: a clinical dictation. Announce the surface and the first tooth, then read out your values in probing order. The app places everything and tells you what it understood.
One tooth number is enough
“Buccal, 18” and you're off. After the first tooth, three values and it moves to the next one. Missing teeth are skipped automatically.
Margin and pocket in one pass
Two values per site — margin first, pocket second. Or pockets only, or margins only, or two separate passes that overlay without overwriting each other.
Checkpoints
Say a tooth number again every three or four teeth. If the app had drifted, it places the values on the announced tooth and flags the offset — the error does not propagate.
Nothing is final
“Undo last dictation” restores the record to exactly its previous state. The review panel stays open until you close it: that's where you correct.
More than probing depths
“Bleeding”, “plaque”, “suppuration”, “mobility 2”, “furcation II”, “16 missing”, “implant”, “stage III grade B” — all spoken in the same flow, all filed in the right place.
When the mic won't cooperate
A text field reads exactly the same grammar: dictate elsewhere, paste here. Every dictation is kept in full, alongside what was extracted from it.
The time the chart used to cost you.
A full periodontal assessment is an hour in the chair, and a good part of it goes into writing things down and typing them up again. ParoScope removes that part — not by going faster, but by removing the steps.
- No second operator holding the chart while you probe.
- No evening re-entry: the chart is already in the record, dated and comparable.
- The medical questionnaire arrives filled in. The patient completes it beforehand, you paste their code, and the record pre-fills — history, smoking, medication.
- The history can be dictated too — chief complaint, comorbidities, medication list. Whatever weighs on the prognosis feeds straight into the risk profile.
- Letters come pre-filled from the record — referring dentist, physician, cardiologist, smoking cessation, visit summary. You read, adjust and sign.
What leaves the appointment
The clinician reads, adjusts and signs. Nothing is sent without them.
From the first probing to maintenance, without a break.
ParoScope follows periodontitis the way it is actually treated: a chronic disease that is stabilised, re-evaluated and maintained. Each step carries the previous one forward — nothing is overwritten, the baseline is always there.
History
Chief complaint, comorbidities, periodontal history, medication, smoking, hygiene and motivation. Dictated or typed, structured automatically.
Assessment and charting
Full six-site probing, recession, mobility, furcation, plaque and bleeding. Imaging, bone loss and bony defects in the same assessment.
Diagnosis
Stage, grade and modifiers per the 2018 classification. Values are pulled from the record — none are computed for you. The clinician reads the table and makes the diagnosis.
Treatment plan
The sequence of care through to re-evaluation, with EFP end-of-therapy thresholds (BOP < 10 %, pockets ≥ 5 mm < 5 %) shown for reference.
Re-evaluation
The new chart appears with the baseline dotted behind it. A slider moves the curves from one assessment to the next — designed to be shown to the patient.
Maintenance
PRA risk profile across its six vectors, trajectory over time, recall interval set by the clinician, and a history of completed visits.
Re-evaluation · sample record
Illustrative values. EFP thresholds are shown for reference: the assessment remains the clinician's.
What is moving, what is stuck.
Periodontitis plays out over years. ParoScope keeps every measurement dated and puts it back on its trajectory — so you can see what responds to treatment and what resists it.
- Healing curve — pocket reduction, bleeding reduction, mean attachment gain, assessment after assessment.
- Trajectory per risk vector — BOP and pockets move, smoking and diabetes stay stuck: the two are read separately.
- Phase-contrast microscopy — bacterial load, spirochetes, protozoa, erythrophagocytosis, dated per visit.
- Targeted biology — aMMP-8, HbA1c, vitamin D, hs-CRP, and subgingival PCR when it genuinely changes the treatment.
What the patient takes home.
Daily technique is the single biggest determinant of relapse — more than bacterial load itself. Which means the patient has to leave with something they can actually use.
- The interdental brush map, dictated. You go round the mouth out loud — “between 46 and 47, 0.8 mm” — and the app produces a personalised map, space by space.
- Diameter, not colour. 0.6 mm is black in one brand and pink in another. The map gives the millimetre, which holds whatever brand the pharmacy stocks.
- An end-to-end encrypted patient app. Brushing reminders, interdental plan, information sheets, quotes to sign, insurance response.
- Plaque self-monitoring stays optional. Offered as a mirror of progress, never as a duty — the app does not depend on patient discipline to work.
Patient card · personalised interdental brushes
Generated from the dictation, printable, mirrored in the patient app.
A wrongly sized interdental brush is the leading cause of failed plaque control.
Designed chairside, for the people who spend their days there.
Dentists
General practice or specialty: favourite protocols per stage, custom templates, and diagnosis and decision always on the clinician's side.
Dental hygienists
Charting, maintenance, patient education and the interdental brush map — precisely the scope of a periodontal maintenance visit.
Practices and clinics
A shared referral directory, a magnified “room screen” mode readable from a distance, and a record the whole team can read.
Anywhere in the world
The references are international — 2018 classification, EFP, Lang & Tonetti, Socransky, Berglundh. French and English interface.
Local-first, by construction.
ParoScope runs in the clinician's browser. The server delivers the file; it receives, stores and sees no patient data at all.
Nothing leaves the machine
The record, the chart, microscopy images, photographs: all of it stays on the clinician's machine. That is a product invariant, not a configuration option.
End-to-end encryption
The link to the patient app is established by invitation code and travels encrypted: the server never sees the content of the documents exchanged.
Responsibility stays with the clinician
ParoScope does not prescribe, does not write prescriptions and does not make diagnoses. It gathers, structures and displays the reference points from the literature. The decision is yours.
What we get asked most.
Does it need special hardware?
A computer, tablet or room workstation with a recent browser and a microphone. No installation, no server to administer at the practice.
What if the speech recognition gets it wrong?
It tells you. After each dictation the app reports what it placed and flags what it is unsure about — checkpoint offset, unplaced value, mismatched mode. The panel stays open until you have read it, and “Undo last dictation” restores the previous state.
Does it replace my practice management software?
No. ParoScope covers periodontics: charting, diagnosis, plan, maintenance, patient documents. Billing, scheduling and prescribing remain with your certified software. The app records that a prescription was issued, without writing it.
How is patient data protected?
It never leaves the clinician's browser. The server only delivers the application file and hosts no health data. Synchronisation with the patient app is end-to-end encrypted.
Is phase-contrast microscopy required?
No. If you do not have a microscope, those modules are hidden and the rest of the pathway works identically. Likewise, biological tests and PCR are offered for at-risk profiles, not for every patient.
What languages is the application available in?
Clinical dictation and the interface are currently in French. An English version is in preparation; write to us if you would like to help shape it.
See ParoScope on a real case.
A thirty-minute demonstration, on your own case if you like: the chart dictated from start to finish, then the diagnosis, the plan and maintenance.
Access to the application is credential-protected. Ask for credentials along with your demo.