What reading level should my treatment plan documents be written at? Write them so the average person at the middle of the bell curve understands every word. Most clinicians hover around an intelligence level of 120 or so, and we love our technical jargon. But the general population sits around 100, and the second you write a recommendation in the language that feels natural to you, you have excluded most of the people sitting across from you. Here is the part dentists miss: even your sharpest, most educated patients prefer things to be simple. Nobody resents clarity. So you cannot lose [...]