Perio by voice · 8 of 9
A second pair of hands, or a second listen
Two ways to catch what a session got wrong: someone clearing flagged surfaces while you keep charting, or a second pass over the recording afterwards.
Two tools for the same problem, from opposite directions.
Assist mode — a second person, in real time
If someone is already helping you chart, they can work inside Mesio instead of typing into your practice system. They get their own screen with three things on it.
- A queue of uncertain surfaces. Every site Mesio was not confident about, with the words it heard, a play button for that moment, and a box to type the right number. Working the queue never interrupts you — the dictation cursor does not stop for any of it.
- A hold. One button for the one case that is genuinely urgent: values landing on the wrong tooth. It pauses intake while the microphone stays live, so you can sort out where you both are.
- The transcript. Everything said during the session, each line with playback, for when they want to check something themselves.
The number worth watching is how often they have to intervene. When a run of sessions needs nothing from them, that is the signal they can stop sitting in.
The rerun — a second listen, afterwards
Charting live means keeping up with you, which leaves no time to weigh what was said against what came before it. Afterwards there is all the time in the world. The rerun goes back over the session recording without that pressure and charts it again, which is a genuinely different reading rather than the same one repeated.
You get a second chart and a plain choice: keep yours, or take the rerun. Whole chart, not site by site, with the sites that differ named up front. Whichever you choose is recorded.
It needs the session's audio, which means the practice has session capture turned on.
When to reach for which. Assist mode is for a practice that already has a second person in the room and wants their time spent on exceptions instead of typing. The rerun is for the session that felt rough — a noisy room, a cold, a new microphone — where a second opinion on the whole thing is worth two minutes.