Does Medical Mode handle dental terminology and tooth numbering?

Yes — it targets clinical vocabulary broadly; add tooth-numbering and procedure terms via keyterms to sharpen dental accuracy.

Can it run chairside in real time during a dental exam?

Yes, on Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime, streaming during the exam.

How do I improve accuracy on specific procedures?

Pass them in keyterms_prompt — e.g., occlusal, composite restoration, #14.

Is dental patient data protected and BAA-eligible?

AssemblyAI is a business associate under HIPAA and signs a standard BAA; PHI redaction; SOC 2 Type 2.

How much does dental transcription with Medical Mode cost?

$0.15/hr add-on on top of Universal-3.5 Pro.

Dental

Documentation that speaks dental

Dental transcription converts chairside and operatory speech into accurate chart notes, including tooth numbers, surfaces, and procedure codes. AssemblyAI's Medical Mode, a one-parameter add-on to Universal-3.5 Pro, holds a 3.2% Missed Entity Rate on clinical conversations — the lowest across benchmarked providers. BAA available.

Tooth numbering, procedure codes, and dental terminology trip up general transcription. Universal-3.5 Pro with Medical Mode captures the clinical vocabulary of the operatory, so chart notes and treatment plans start accurate. One parameter, async or chairside realtime.

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The same medical entity accuracy, applied to dental terminology

Missed Entity Rate 3.2%

Missed Entity Rate on clinical conversations with Medical Mode.

Fewer missed entities ~20%

Fewer missed medical entities than the base model without Medical Mode.

Fewer entity errors 87%

Fewer medical entity errors than the base model.

Benchmarked providers #1

Lowest Missed Entity Rate vs. Deepgram, Speechmatics, AWS, and Google.

Benchmarks

Dental transcription accuracy vs. other providers

Missed Entity Rate is the share of clinical entities — medication names, dosages, diagnoses — that a model fails to transcribe correctly. Lower is better.

Missed Entity Rate and Word Error Rate on clinical conversation audio Lower is better. Medical Mode enabled via `domain: "medical-v1"`.
Provider	Missed Entity Rate	Word Error Rate
AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro w/ Medical Mode	3.2%	5.3%
Speechmatics Enhanced Medical	3.6%	5.5%
Deepgram Nova-3 Medical	4.7%	6.1%
AWS Transcribe Medical	8.7%	5.9%
Google Medical Conversation	24.4%	12.9%

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Activation

Tune to dental vocabulary

Pass operatory vocabulary as keyterms — tooth numbers, surfaces, procedures — one parameter, no model swap.

import assemblyai as aai

aai.settings.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

# Dental: tooth numbering, procedures, materials
config = aai.TranscriptionConfig(
    speech_models=["universal-3-5-pro", "universal-2"],
    domain="medical-v1",
    keyterms_prompt=["distal", "occlusal", "composite restoration", "#14"],
)

transcript = aai.Transcriber().transcribe("./dental-exam.wav", config)
print(transcript.text)

Worked example

Tooth numbers and CDT codes that survive the transcript

General transcription renders number-fourteen-M-O as prose and drops the procedure code entirely. Medical Mode plus keyterms holds the tooth numbers, surfaces, and CDT codes that make an operatory note billable.

Chairside dictation -> operatory note

#14 MO composite, D2392. Caries to dentin on the
mesio-occlusal surface. Local: 1 carpule 2% lidocaine
w/ 1:100,000 epi. Rubber dam isolation.

#19 DO amalgam noted, margins intact, no treatment.
#30 recommend crown, D2740 - patient to schedule.

Perio: generalized 3-4mm probing depths, localized
5mm on #2 and #15 distal. Recall 4 months.

What has to survive transcription: tooth numbers
(#14, #19, #30, #2, #15), CDT codes (D2392, D2740),
surfaces (MO, DO, distal), and probing depths.

Dental terminology

Surfaces, tooth numbers, and procedure terms captured for accurate chart notes.

Universal-3.5 Pro

Chairside or recorded

Stream during the exam or transcribe recordings; robust on operatory audio.

Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime

Private by default

PHI redaction, BAA available, SOC 2 Type 2.

Medical Mode

Common questions

: Yes — it targets clinical vocabulary broadly; add tooth-numbering and procedure terms via keyterms to sharpen dental accuracy.
: Yes, on Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime, streaming during the exam.
: Pass them in keyterms_prompt — e.g., occlusal, composite restoration, #14.
: AssemblyAI is a business associate under HIPAA and signs a standard BAA; PHI redaction; SOC 2 Type 2.
: $0.15/hr add-on on top of Universal-3.5 Pro.
: Add domain: "medical-v1".