Dental notes
Write the note from the appointment, not from memory.
Mila records the appointment and gives you back the conversation, written down. You write your note from what was actually said, instead of reconstructing six of them at six o'clock.
Runs on a Mac. Download it, open it, start — it opens straight away.
- MacmacOS 13 or later, and a microphone. It opens straight away.
- Stays on your computerRecordings, transcripts and notes, encrypted, on the machine Mila runs on.
See it work
Press play. This is an appointment, sped up.
The conversation comes back with each turn labelled and the times kept. Where Mila cannot settle who was speaking it says so, rather than guessing.
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Dentist0:00
Right — upper right four today. That's the filling on the biting surface, the one that's been catching.
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Patient0:09
That's the one. It catches when I bite down on that side.
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Dentist0:16
Any sensitivity with cold?
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Patient0:19
Cold water mostly. It's sharp for a second and then it settles.
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Dentist0:25
And has anything changed medically since we last saw you? Any new medication?
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Patient0:31
No, nothing new. Same as last time.
You said upper right four. Your note says UR4. Point at a line of the note and the part of the conversation it came from lights up; a line with nothing behind it is a line you wrote from memory.
An example, sped up. In the app the conversation comes back after you stop recording, not while it runs. The note is yours to write.
Before you try it
The computer, the cost, and where things sit.
Your computer
A Mac running macOS 13 or later. Download it, open it, start: it opens straight away, with no warning to click past.
A clip-on microphone is best. Bluetooth headsets drop to a narrow phone-call band, and that is exactly where the sounds that tell dental terms apart live.
Ten seconds, in this page, then it stops. Nothing is recorded and nothing is kept.
The cost
Mila costs you nothing today. There is no account with us and nothing to sign in to.
Turning the recording into text is done by a service in the EU, on an account you hold. They bill you directly, by the hour of audio, and a single appointment is a fraction of an hour. Who they are, and what reaches them, is set out in full on the data protection page.
Where things sit
Recordings, transcripts and notes stay on the computer Mila runs on, encrypted under a lock your Mac holds.
One thing leaves that machine: the audio, to be turned into text in the EU. Text comes back. Nothing else leaves unless you go into Settings and switch it on, and what that would send is written out in full. There is no copy of any of it with us, because there is nowhere with us for it to be.
Who is building this
Built by a dentist.
Mila is built by a practising dentist. That is why the conversation comes first: it is the part you need on day one, and the part that has to be right before anything else is worth having.
If you run a practice and want a look, or you think it gets something wrong, write. The reply comes from him.
Pricing
What it costs.
Per dentist, per month. Prices are shown without VAT and with it, because one of those is the number you actually pay.
Start here
Two months at £49
£49 a month ex VAT
£58.80 inc VAT. Two months, then the Clinician price.
- One dentist.
- Stop whenever you like.
One dentist
Clinician
£79 a month ex VAT
£94.80 inc VAT.
- Recording, the conversation written down, and your notes.
- Nothing runs over on its own.
A practice
Practice
£219 a month ex VAT
£262.80 inc VAT. Each further dentist £73 ex VAT, £87.60 inc VAT.
- One bill for the practice.
- Each dentist keeps their own notes.
What a recording hour is
An hour of recording is an hour of the chair running. A dictated summary is a minute or two of it. A whole appointment is as long as the appointment.
Nothing runs over on its own
If you use up the hours, Mila stops starting new chargeable recordings and tells you. Your notes, your editing and your export stay open. More hours are something you buy on purpose: 20 hours for £20 ex VAT, £24 inc VAT.
Questions
The ones a dentist actually asks.
Yes. You record the appointment, go through the conversation with the labels you can change, and write your note from it. If something gets in your way, write — the reply comes from the dentist who built it.
Yes, and Mila does not handle it. Consent comes through your practice's own process, the same as it would for any other recording. Mila records when you press Record, and at no other time.
No. Mila writes down what happened; you decide what it means. It does not diagnose, recommend treatment or offer clinical decision support, and it has not been through clinical or regulatory review.
It says so and hands the appointment back to you, with everyone's words still in the right order. You set the labels at the top and your choice is kept. It is built to ask rather than guess.
A clip-on, wired or on its own dongle. Bluetooth headsets drop to a narrow phone-call band, and that is exactly where the consonants that tell dental terms apart live. The built-in microphone is fine for a first go.
Beside it. You copy your note and paste it into the patient's record, the way you would from anywhere else. Mila never writes into your practice system, and never claims to have.
The recordings and transcripts go with it. There is no copy anywhere else, and no restore. What you have already pasted into your practice system is your record, and it is untouched.
Start
Try it on your next quiet afternoon.
One route: the right file for your Mac, the microphone, and one test appointment to see it work. About twenty minutes, most of it the download.
Or take the file straight away — Mac, Apple silicon (135 MB) · Mac, Intel (142 MB). Version 0.2.0.