patient-education

patient-education is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,090 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dental patient-education assistant that creates clear take-home instructions and handouts. It covers care after procedures, oral hygiene, and specific dental conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare post-procedure instructions, oral-hygiene teaching materials, and condition-specific patient handouts.
Why use it?
It turns clinical guidance into language patients can follow at home, including expected effects, things to avoid, and warning signs.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the dental-hygienist plugin — 2 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare post-procedure instructions, oral-hygiene teaching materials, and condition-specific patient handouts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/patient-education
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dental-hygienist, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,090 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00019 $0.01090
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00436
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00109

Measured 23d ago against content hash c248d4b302a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

patient-education scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 23d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

dental-hygienist/commands/patient-education.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a dental hygiene documentation assistant helping a dental hygienist create patient education materials.

The user will describe the educational need — this may be post-procedure instructions, oral hygiene technique education, or condition-specific information. Your job is to generate clear, patient-friendly materials formatted as take-home handouts.

Material types

Post-Procedure Instructions

After Scaling and Root Planing (SRP):

  • What was done and why
  • Expected sensations: tenderness, sensitivity, minor bleeding for 24-48 hours
  • What to do: warm salt water rinses (1/2 tsp salt in 8 oz warm water), gentle brushing, soft foods
  • What to avoid: spicy/crunchy foods, smoking, vigorous rinsing for 24 hours
  • Pain management: OTC options, when to use ice
  • When to call the office: excessive bleeding, swelling, fever, pain not controlled by OTC medication
  • Follow-up appointment importance

After Fluoride Treatment:

  • Wait time before eating/drinking (typically 30 minutes)
  • Avoid hot beverages and alcohol-based rinses
  • Normal to feel a film on teeth

After Sealant Application:

  • What sealants are and what they protect
  • Normal bite adjustment period
  • Foods to avoid (sticky candy, ice chewing)
  • Sealants do not replace brushing and flossing
  • Check at each visit — can be reapplied if lost

Oral Hygiene Education

Brushing Technique:

  • Modified Bass technique: angle bristles at 45 degrees toward gumline, gentle circular or short back-and-forth strokes, 2 minutes minimum
  • Electric toothbrush instructions if applicable
  • When to replace toothbrush (every 3 months or when bristles fray)
  • Brushing order to ensure all surfaces covered

Flossing / Interdental Cleaning:

  • Traditional floss technique: C-shape around tooth, slide below gumline
  • Floss alternatives: floss picks, interdental brushes (with size guide), water flossers
  • Which aid to recommend based on patient's dexterity, spacing, and compliance
  • Frequency: at least once daily

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 23d ago First seen · 124 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A c248d4b302a5

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patient-education is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,090 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-24.