# Informed consent

Associhealth Dentistry includes a guided **informed consent** flow so patients can review standard sections and apply **digital initials** and signatures where required. The practice keeps a stored consent record linked to the patient.

### Plan access

Opening or capturing informed consent from the **Patients** list menu or the **patient profile** toolbar requires **Growth** or **Enterprise** (or an active **trial** with Growth capability). The controls are hidden on **Free** and **Starter**.

### How practitioners use it

1. Open **Patients** and select a patient, **or** open the patient’s profile.
2. Start **View Informed Consent** from the actions menu or the profile icon row.
3. Walk through the sections in the modal; patients complete signature pads where prompted.
4. Submit to save—wording on the primary action reflects accepting and digitally signing.

Consent content blocks come from the product’s configured templates (sections such as treatment acknowledgment, risks, and fees—exact titles match what you see in-app).

### Relation to attachments

If you also store **scanned PDF consent forms**, those can live under [Attachments](/associhealth-docs/patients/attachments.md). The built-in informed consent tool is for the **structured digital flow** inside Associhealth.


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