Digital technologies have revolutionized the field of dentistry, offering numerous advantages in diagnosis, treatment planning, education, and patient care. This review article provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of digital technologies in dentistry, highlighting their applications, benefits, and future prospects. Technologies allow for precise 3D imaging of dental structures, facilitating virtual treatment planning and guiding the placement of dental implants. Additionally, digital imaging techniques enable the creation of highly accurate digital impressions, eliminating the need for traditional impression materials and improving patient comfort. The review article concludes with a discussion on the challenges and future prospects of digital technologies in dentistry. While digital technologies offer numerous benefits, including improved accuracy, efficiency, and patient outcomes, there are considerations regarding cost, training, and data security that need to be addressed. Nevertheless, with ongoing advancements in digital technologies, the future of dentistry holds immense potential for further innovation and improved patient care.

A common dental condition known as tooth decay is brought on by a combination between microbes and fermented sugars. Traditional preventive measures, such as oral hygiene practices and fluoride treatments, have proven effective in lowering the prevalence of cavities in the mouth. However, these approaches have limitations in terms of their effectiveness and accessibility. Caries vaccination has emerged as a promising approach to preventing dental caries, offering long-lasting protection against this disease. This abstract provides an overview of the prospects of caries vaccines, including their potential benefits, challenges, and limitations. While caries vaccines remain an area of active research and development, there are several promising prospects that suggest that by this approach potential cavity formation may be effectively avoided particularly. Ongoing research and evaluation of caries vaccines will be necessary to fully understand their potential benefits and risks and to develop safe and effective vaccines that can be widely used to prevent dental caries.

Introduction: Oral health is often viewed as a significant component for an indication of good general health or for good well-being together with a decent quality of life. Health literacy is considered a crucial factor in improvising a good life or excellent health. Oral health literacy (OHL) is the ability necessary for people to identify the factors that lead to poor oral health, learn and put into practice the essentials of effective oral self-care behaviors, and communicate with oral healthcare professionals in order to schedule appointments, put their names on waiting lists for dental care, and locate the dentist's office. Aim and objectives: To evaluate students' oral health, their OHL, to determine the relationship between their oral health status and OHL, and finally to suggest preventive measures for the benefit of public health. Materials and method: At Teerthanker Mahaveer University, a cross-sectional study involving 1500 participants, ages 18 to 25, was conducted on students studying nursing, physiotherapy, paramedicine, engineering, and law. Their informed consent was obtained. The Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry (REALD-99) was used to gauge OHL levels, and the WHO's 1997 Oral Health Survey was used for their clinical evaluation. Results: The mean REALD score was significantly higher in nursing students (88.32±6.46), followed by physiotherapy college (82.46±9.11), paramedical college (70.54±10.95), law college (46.52±7.74), and least in engineering college (38.80±10.65). The difference in the REALD score based on college was statistically significant. Along with this, the REALD score showed a correlation with gender and location too. Except for fluorosis, all the clinical parameters of dental caries, gingival bleeding, and pockets, loss of attachment, dental fluorosis, and dental enamel were associated with OHL. Conclusion: The results of the current study showed a relationship between educational attainment, clinical parameters examined, and OHL, leading to the conclusion that higher OHL is related to better oral health. So, we can conclude that maintaining good oral health requires OHL.

The dental profession holds a position of unique trust in the community. Because of this, society accords the profession specific privileges that are not available to the broader population. The profession guarantees society that its members will uphold high ethical standards of conduct in exchange. Ethics is a branch of philosophy that examines moral questions of right and wrong. It focuses on the moral obligations of dentists to their patients, the community, and their fellow professionals. Dentists have a responsibility to live ethically in the course of their professional endeavours. The history, philosophy, theories, and foundational ethical rules that dentists should abide by are all covered in this article. Key Words: Ethics, Profession, Philosophy, Dentist

The delta variant of COVID-19 also known as B.1.617.2 is more contagious than the alpha variant and henceforth this variant has led to a sudden spike in the cases of COVID-19 all over the world. It is indeed a matter of surprise that in countries where most of the population were vaccinated, still there was an upturn in the number of COVID-19 infections. Though some of the vaccine companies have reported that their vaccine can effectively provide shielding against this variant too, but still we need to understand why is this variant more transmissible and how did it became a dominant strain in such a short span of time and what are the measures that can be taken to prevent the most widely spread delta-variant of this virus. An overall review regarding the delta B.1.617.2 variant along with its pathogenicity is done in this article.