Import Single Images

Use the Single Import feature to add one or more individual images to a patient folder. This feature is especially useful for linking images to the patient's tooth chart, replacing images imported in error, or for completing a timepoint.

1. Open Single Import Window - From the Imaging section of the Home or Imaging ribbon bar, select Single Import. (The location of the icon depends on the ribbon bar you are working with.) Or, while viewing a patient's images, right-click an image location you want to replace and select Single Import. You might also be able to open this feature from the Quick Access toolbar at the top of your Edge Cloud window. Finally, you can drag and drop an image onto a layout you are viewing to initiate the single import feature.

   

2. Choose Single Import Details - Choose the appropriate patient, time point, date, and image type. Then select the Import Path where the image is located. If there are already images in the time point, you cannot change the date.

   

   Patient - To change the patient to work with, click in the Patient field to open Fast Find and search for a different patient. This provides an efficient way to work with multiple patients in one session.

   Time Point - Choose the time point for this image, or type a new time point unique to this patient.

   Date - If you are importing into a new time point, enter the date the image(s) were taken. This date will be applied to all future images you import into this time point. If you cannot enter a date, images have already been imported into this time point.

   Time Point / Image Dates - Although all images in a time point have the same time point date, you can edit the date an individual image was taken via the Edit > Image Properties tool. See "Image Properties" for details.

   Image Type - Choose the image type to import.

   Overwrite Warning - If an image already exists for this image type in this time point, you will see a Warning icon in the preview section of the window. You can hover over the icon to view the existing image. (X-Ray Location images do not show this warning: They do not overwrite any images, but simply add images to the Index layout of the patient's Imaging page, and the patient's tooth chart.)

   Import Path - Choose the location of this patient's original images. You can click the dropdown button to select from a list of paths you've used on this workstation, or click [...] to browse to a different location if needed. You then see a list of the images found in that folder. (You can ignore the Import Path and list of images when you are going to scan a new image.)

3. Choose Image - Use the list at the bottom of the screen to choose the image to import. You can optionally type all or part of the image filename in the Search field to search for an image in the Image Path you selected, or use the Wizard icon to search for images in the path that include the patient's last name. Finally, you can click Scan from the Imaging ribbon bar to scan a new image from any scanner connected to your computer. Your chosen image appears at the right of the window.

   

4. Image Preview - A preview of your selected image appears at the right of the window. You can move, rotate, and edit the image as needed before importing it into the patient record.

   Edit Images - Use the icons in the Editing Tools section of the Imaging ribbon bar to move, re-size, manually rotate, and remove red eye from patient images. See "Image Editing Tools" for details.

   Image Actions - Use the tools in the Actions section of the Imaging ribbon bar to mirror or flip the image orientation, rotate images by 90 degrees, sharpen, blur, or smooth image resolution, and apply auto-contrast. The Actions tools also provide you with a way to reverse or re-apply changes you have made to your images. See "Image Editing Actions" for details.

   Image Adjustment - Use the tools in the Adjustments section of the Imaging ribbon bar to manually adjust the brightness, gamma, saturation, contrast, and hue values of your images. See "Image Editing Adjustments" for details.

   Image Options - Use the tools in the Options section of the Imaging ribbon bar to superimpose grid lines and silhouettes on your images to assist you as you resize and realign an image. See "Image Editing Options" for details.

5. Import Image(s) - Click Import from the General section of the Imaging ribbon bar to save your selections and begin the import process.

   

6. Verify Overwrite - If you are importing an image (or images) that will overwrite an existing image in this time point, you must confirm your action before continuing.

   

   No Overwrite Warning - When you use Single Import to add an X-Ray Location image to a patient folder, you will not see any overwrite warning, even if an image has already been imported into the image type you select. Each X-Ray Location image you import is simply added to the patient's Imaging index, as well as linked to the patient's tooth chart.

7. Link Tooth Chart - As you import an image, such as a bitewing radiograph, into a patient folder, you can link that image to one or more teeth, then view that image within the patient's tooth chart. Only image types with the X-Ray Location property enabled will ask for the teeth to link. See "Link Images to Tooth Chart" for details.

   

After images are imported, you see a completion notification dialog. If the Delete After Import option in your Imaging User Options is set up to either retain original images or delete original images, you simply see a notice that the process is complete. However, if the Delete After Import option is set up to prompt you before deleting original images, select either Yes or No to direct the handling of the original images.