Currently recharting on a tooth - (eg caries on a tooth that previously had caries on the same surface) causes deletion of the original charting (which might be from years ago) ...which is a fairly serious medicolegal issue - now it appears that the patient medical records have been altered and are incomplete, effectively Dentally has deleted the dentist’s notes and is leaving the dentist open to litigation due to missed diagnosis / poor record keeping, and has made the charting confusing to use and less useful because the old record is absent.

The auto delete function might be useful when charting ...but should perhaps be limited to deleting only recently charted items - ie in the last hour or 24 hours.