Instructions
1. On your desktop, right-click on an empty space. Go to “New” and click “Folder.” A folder will appear with highlighted blue text. Type in the patient name and push “Enter” on your keyboard.
2. Open your image and click on “File > Save As,” then “Multi File DICOM with .dcm,” and click “OK.”
3. Select the folder you just created on your desktop. Click “OK.”
4. Please ensure that “Uncompressed” is selected and click “OK”. Your files will begin exporting. Click “OK” once complete.
5. After the DICOM exports and saves, go to the patient’s folder and verify the .dcm files were exported correctly; there should be several hundred files.
6. Go back to the desktop, right click on the patient’s folder, go to “Send to”, and select “Compressed (zipped) folder.” A duplicate folder will be made with either a zipper on it, or a blue “Z.”
If following a Dual Scan Protocol, please zip scans individually and label accordingly; i.e: “Patient Scan” and “Denture Scan.
7. Upload compressed folder to Dandy Portal or email ImplantSurgery@meetdandy.com