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Dental clinical tools & calculators (UK): 4 free calculators + the Nosht toolkit

Nosht offers free UK dental clinical tools and calculators for the whole dental team — dentists, therapists, hygienists, nurses and students. The four calculators below run in your browser with no login; each clinical reference also has a free answer guide. Everything is built for UK dentistry and organises published guidance for reference, not as clinical advice.

Free public calculators

Open, no login required. Deterministic reference calculators for everyday UK dental documentation.

  • BPE calculator

    Record a six-sextant BPE and see the BSP 2019 guidance per code; staging and grading helper (2017 classification) once radiographic bone loss is known.

  • NHS dental charges & UDA calculator

    Work out the England patient-charge band (1, 2, 3 or urgent) and the UDA value for a course of treatment.

  • Tooth Notation Converter

    Convert any tooth between Palmer, FDI (ISO 3950) and Universal (ADA) notation, adult and deciduous.

  • GDC Scope of Practice Checker

    See what each GDC-registered dental role may and may not do, with direct-access and prescribing rules.

Clinical reference

Plain-English answer guides paired with in-app reference tools. These organise published UK guidance for reference — they do not replace your clinical judgement, prescribing references or current guidelines.

In the Nosht app only (Solo and Pro plans)

  • Medical Flags — Dental implications, local anaesthetic safety and prescribing pitfalls for common medical conditions, based on SDCEP, the BNF and UK specialist guidance.

One place for the calculations dentists reach for daily

UK dental documentation involves a handful of quick calculations and lookups that recur every clinic: reading BPE codes against the BSP guidance and staging and grading periodontitis, banding an NHS course of treatment and reading off its UDA value, translating between tooth notation systems, and checking who on the team is in scope for a given procedure. Each of these has a free Nosht calculator built on the published rules (NHS bands as of 1 April 2026), so the answer is reproducible — verify before quoting.

Alongside the calculators sit clinical reference tools — local anaesthetic maximum doses, drug interactions, paediatric dosing, periodontal staging and grading, GDC enhanced CPD, Montgomery consent, antibiotic prescribing and medical emergencies. Each has a plain-English answer guide that summarises the relevant UK guidance, and an in-app tool that turns it into a structured prompt while you document. These organise guidance for reference; they support clinical judgement rather than replace it.

The same structured approach underpins the Nosht dental notes app: pick a template, fill the structured fields, and copy a GDC-aligned note into any practice management system. Nosht uses optional AI to help draft notes and captures no audio. Your clinical notes carry no patient identifiers. The exceptions are referral letters (patient name and date of birth) and sending a leaflet (the patient’s email or phone number).

Frequently asked questions

What free dental tools does Nosht offer?

Nosht offers four free public calculators — a BPE calculator (BSP guidance per BPE code, plus a staging and grading helper), an NHS dental charges and UDA calculator for England, a tooth notation converter (Palmer, FDI/ISO 3950 and Universal), and a GDC Scope of Practice Checker by role. It also publishes answer guides and in-app reference tools covering local anaesthetic doses, drug interactions, paediatric doses, periodontal staging and grading, GDC enhanced CPD, Montgomery consent, antibiotic prescribing and medical emergencies.

Do I need an account to use the Nosht tools?

No. The four public calculators — BPE, NHS UDA, tooth notation and the GDC Scope of Practice Checker — work in the browser with no login. The in-app reference tools (such as the LA dose tool and antibiotic guide) are part of Nosht Pro (£19.99/month, with a 3-day free trial for new subscribers); each has a free public answer guide you can read without signing in.

Are these tools clinical advice?

No. The calculators are deterministic and organise published UK guidance and classifications for reference. The dose, prescribing and consent tools are clinical reference tools — they do not replace your clinical judgement, current prescribing references and the source guidelines. Always confirm against current GDC, SDCEP, BNF/BNFc, BSP and Resuscitation Council UK guidance.

Are the tools UK-specific?

Yes. They are built for UK dentistry. The NHS charges and UDA calculator covers NHS England only; Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland use different charging structures. The scope, consent and prescribing references follow UK guidance from the GDC, SDCEP and related bodies.

Can I use these tools as a dental hygienist or therapist?

Yes. The tools are for the whole dental team. The GDC Scope of Practice Checker shows what each registrant title can and cannot do, and the periodontal, CPD and consent tools map directly to hygiene and therapy workflows.

These tools are for education and reference only — not clinical, prescribing or financial advice. The calculators are deterministic; the dose, prescribing and consent tools are clinical reference tools. Always verify against current GDC, SDCEP, BNF/BNFc, BSP, NHS and Resuscitation Council UK guidance and use your professional judgement.

Write the note in seconds

Nosht turns these classifications and references into structured, GDC-aligned dental notes — one click to copy into any practice management system. No patient identifiers in clinical notes (referral letters and leaflet sending excepted); no audio captured.

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