Advanced Dentistry of Collegeville · Transfer of Records

Transferring Records

Moving Your X-Rays and Dental Records

If you are coming to our office for the first time, we would like to obtain X-rays from your previous dentist, especially if they were taken within the past three years.

Download Records Release Form Call (610) 489-5555

Dr. Nelly Silva at the front desk of the Collegeville office — Download, sign and send one simple form

For New Patients

Bringing Your X-Rays to Our Office

We have a legal obligation to take and maintain current dental X-rays in order to fully diagnose our patients’ oral health. In fact, we are not able to treat patients who refuse the minimally acceptable diagnostic dental X-rays.

If previous X-rays cannot be obtained, if they are out of date, or if they are not of acceptable diagnostic quality, you must have diagnostic X-rays taken as a new patient in our office, often at your first dental exam.

Download the form
Use the records release form linked on this page.
Print and sign it
Fill in your details and sign the release.
Send it to your previous dentist
Scan and mail or email it to your previous dentist. It serves as your records request.

Download Records Release Form

For Patients Who Move Away

Sending Your Records Elsewhere

We adhere to the Dental Practice Act standard to process the requests we receive. The estimated turnaround time is 5 business days for electronic requests and 10 business days for printed requests.

State Board of Dentistry regulations require that record reproduction in a private office be provided either free of charge or for a “reasonable” fee reflecting the cost of reproduction.

Simple X-rays: our team can usually send them after you sign a release form, typically at no fee
Detailed chart records: $100–$200 fee
CBCT scans not paid for by the patient: $300 duplication and transfer fee

Download Records Release Form