Sherrie Busby ft. Chelsea Homire:
“Hey, DAs, Are You Using AI to Your Advantage?”

No, and this is the part most assistants worry about. The AI only saves what’s medically and dentally relevant. If you talk to a coworker about your weekend, or mutter something under your breath, it doesn’t go in the chart. It keeps the full transcription on the back end, but the actual note only contains clinical content.

It actually handles open bays really well. The mic is Bluetooth to your computer and clips magnetically onto your lapel – so it’s picking up your voice up close and filtering out background chatter from other ops. You don’t need a closed room for it to work cleanly.

All of them, honestly – Chelsea works with Medit, AlliedStar, Trios Wireless at her company, plus two Trios 3 and two iTero scanners at her clinical practice. She also worked exclusively on Primescan for about 8 years, so she knows that one deeply too.

Chelsea recommends starting in your settings and looking specifically at the fill settings, but for a step-by-step walk-through, this is one to ask her directly. Reach out via the Digital Dental Assistant Academy and she’ll walk you through it screen-by-screen.

Yes, Overjet’s voice AI is built to integrate with Dentrix, Eaglesoft, and other major systems. You pull up the patient’s chart, hit record, leave it on for the whole appointment (whether 10 minutes or 3 hours), then hit “generate note” – it drops the SOAP-formatted note directly into the chart. You edit if needed, the doctor signs off.

For the most part, yes. It’s specifically trained on dental vocabulary – medications, procedures, terminology – so it spells most things right out of the box. You can also build custom templates per office (e.g., “for root canal notes, put the working length here; for implant notes, put implant info at the top”). It learns your office’s preferred format.

Two things, mostly.

1. First, the fear that AI is “spying” – that it’ll record an offhand comment and surface it later. (It won’t – see above.)
2. Second, simply not knowing where to start. Chelsea’s advice: YouTube is full of free tutorials for every major dental AI tool. Search “how to use [tool name]” and you’ll find dozens of walk-throughs in minutes.

Absolutely, and this is one of the most underused angles for DAs. You can ask ChatGPT for a mock interview, a script for asking your manager for a raise, ways to make yourself more valuable in the office, or research on salary ranges in your area. It’s there for the kinds of conversations humans get awkward about.