A prescription is a legal document as well as a clinical one. If a pharmacist, an insurer or a patient's other doctor reads it, they should be able to tell who wrote it, under which registration, from which clinic, and for whom. The NDC format makes that explicit.
The prescribing doctor
- Name as registered with the State Dental Council, not a nickname or short form.
- The State Dental Council and the registration number, and the registration must be current.
- Qualifications and specialty, for example BDS, or BDS, MDS (Endodontics).
- Signature of the prescribing doctor.
The clinic
- Full address, including city, state and the six-digit PIN code.
- An emergency contact number a patient can call about the treatment or medicines.
The patient
- Name, age and gender.
- The date of the prescription.
The medicines
Each medicine with its strength, dose, timing (before or after food), duration and quantity, written clearly. Advice and a follow-up date belong on the same sheet.
How DentoBlaze handles it
Each doctor's registered name, council, registration number, qualifications, specialty and signature are set once, in Settings → Prescriptions. The clinic's address, PIN and emergency number come from the clinic profile. When a doctor writes a prescription, DentoBlaze checks that every one of these details is present, lists anything missing, and only then lets it print on A4 or go out as a PDF. If a doctor's registration renewal date has passed, it says so.