I’m opening up 20 beta seats for an offline AI perio charting add-on that ingests your intraoral camera feed and auto-suggests PD/GM with voice confirmation, running on iPad Pro (M2) at about 0.25 s latency. If you’re a hygienist who charts solo or trains new grads, I can share the calibration pack, sample consent wording, and a de-identified sandbox; I’m specifically looking for feedback on furcation handling and how you want mobility captured.
On iPad Pro, ‘voice confirmation’ helps grads; use the calibration pack to tame glare.
Quick tip: running the ‘calibration pack’ white-card step with the op light at about 50% and locking the intraoral cam’s exposure cut false PD jumps and kept the 0.25 s latency rock solid on my M2 iPad Pro. I also swapped the voice cue to ‘confirm’ because ‘yes’ kept triggering during patient instructions. If your camera won’t lock exposure, a cheap matte screen protector reduced glare enough to get similar results.
I offer two slots and say, ‘24‑hr swap’; hesitant folks get a text reminder.
But i keep a “next-available week” view open and, as I hand over the goodie bag, I say: “I can hold Thursday at 10:30 so you don’t lose your 4–6 week spot — ok to pencil it in?” It feels like saving a seat, not selling a ticket; if they’re unsure, I set a 48‑hour text follow‑up with two times and let them self-book via our short link. @alisonG54 your choice framing pairs nicely with this, but I skip it for first‑time patients who haven’t settled into the hygiene rhythm yet.
Noticed ‘0.25 s’ feels instant, but voice confirmation got way more reliable when I clipped a cheap wired lav to my mask and used a thumb mute toggle — cuts the operatory chatter. @cwells34 locking exposure helped too; when training new grads I have them call “buccal/lingual” before I confirm so fast pans don’t mis-assign sites. Caveat: AirPods mics added noticeable delay, so wired beat wireless for me.
Quick example: before a same‑day try‑in, I do a 1‑minute pumice clean and grab one cross‑polarized photo with a gray card; it’s saved us on shade when a case switches to the lab because “not all crowns are made the same way.” Caveat: speed‑sinter zirconia still reads warmer here, so I note “target A2 neutral” in the photo and use the cool‑down time for OHI — anyone else seeing that, @Nina?