Could Tele-Oral medicine help in early diagnosis of oral cancer?

Chawla, Jitendra; Yerragudi, Navaneeth

doi:10.1051/mbcb/2021032

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“…Save time (for patients/clinicians/staff ) [11,21,24,25,58] Reduce the waiting time [11,26,58] Minimization of doctor's delay [58] Access to oral medicine services Increase patient access to oral medicine services [5,7,18,51,58] A convenient way to access Oral Medicine services. [1,3,7,51,59] A convenient way for disabled patients in the remote population. [21] Improved access to remote specialists for unassisted populations [40] Facilitate patient-professional communication [18,24] Continuous clinic visits and care [5,7,45] Improve access to preventative and diagnostic care for remote communities [7,19,27] Communication between dental clinicians Rapid access to specialist opinions for the general practitioners [58,60] Practical means of communication between dental clinicians [45] Optimizing the use of specialists' skill in underserved area [8] Access specialized knowledge globally through experts` integration [1] Access to specialist (dental hygienist located in a remote or underserved area/primary healthcare) [7,57] Improve access to specialists (confirming diagnosis/detecting oral lesions/formulating treatment plan) [7,27] Communication (share uncertainties, complexity of cases, experience and doing the best for the patient) [7,…”

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Tele-dentistry, its trends, scope, and future framework in oral medicine; a scoping review during January 1999 to December 2021

et al. 2023

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Background Tele-dentistry has been increasingly used for different purposes of visit, consultation, triage, screening, and training in oral medicine. This study aims to determine the main facilitators, barriers, and participants` viewpoints of applying tele-dentistry in oral medicine and develop a framework indicating the input, process, output, and feedback. Method This was a scoping review conducted in 2022 applying Arksey and O’Malley (2005) approach. Four databases including ISI web of science, PubMed, Scopus, and ProQuest were searched from January 1999 to December 2021. Inclusion criteria consisted of all original and non-original articles (reviews, editorials, letters, comments, and book chapters), and dissertations in English with a full text electronic file. Excel2016 was used for descriptive quantitative analysis and MAXQDA version 10 was applied for qualitative thematic analysis. A thematic framework was developed customizing the results of the review in a virtual mini expert panel. Results Descriptive results show that among 59 included articles, 27 (46%) have addressed the various applications of tele-dentistry during COVID-19 pandemic in the field of oral medicine. From geographical distribution perspective, most of the papers were published in Brazil (n = 13)/ 22.03%, India (n = 7)/11.86% and USA (n = 6)/10.17%. Thematic analysis shows that seven main themes of “information”, “skill”, “human resource”, ‘technical”, “administrative’, ‘financial’, and ‘training and education’ are explored as facilitators. ‘Individual’, ‘environmental’, ‘organizational’, ‘regulation’, ‘clinical’, and ‘technical barriers’ are also identified as main barriers of tele-dentistry in oral medicine. Conclusion According to the results for using tele-dentistry services in oral medicine, a diverse category of facilitators should be considered and at the same time, different barriers should be managed. Users` satisfaction and perceived usefulness of tele-dentistry as final outcomes can be increased considering the system`s feedback and applying facilitator incentives as well as decreasing the barriers.

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Tele-dentistry, its trends, scope, and future framework in oral medicine; a scoping review during January 1999 to December 2021

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Technological aspects and recommendations for applying teledentistry in oral medicine: a scoping review

Niknam,

Sharifian,

Bashiri

et al. 2024

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Background Teledentistry is applied in oral medicine to help dental practitioners and specialists manage complex oral conditions. This scoping review aims to synthesize the available evidence regarding the technical requirements and the provision of security services, as well as the recommendations on standard oral cavity photography methods for using teledentistry in oral medicine. Method The present scoping review was conducted in 2022 according to the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) manual. Four databases were systematically searched, including ISI Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, and ProQuest, from January 1999 to December 2021. After finalizing the search strategy, all the original articles, reviews, editorials, letters, comments, and book chapters were included. All the dissertations uploaded in English with a full-text electronic file were also included to achieve a comprehensive picture of the available literature. Two types of analysis were applied: the quantitative descriptive analysis applying Excel 2016 and the qualitative thematic analysis using MAXQDA version 10. Results The included papers were published during 1999–2021. Most of the included articles were from Brazil ( n = 9, 21.43%), India ( n = 6, 14.28%), the USA ( n = 6, 14.28%), and the UK ( n = 5, 11.90%). Social media usage as a teledentistry platform increased considerably between 2019 and 2021. Teledentistry platforms have been classified into four categories, including email, telephone, social network applications (WhatsApp, zoom, Google Meeting, Instagram, line Application, Viber, and Messenger), and teledentistry systems (teledentistry systems, which were designed specially to perform a teledentistry project). Teledentistry has been conducted to store and forward ( n = 15, 30.71%), real-time ( n = 9, 21.43%), or both ( n = 12, 35.71%). According to the thematic results, basic technical requirements have been categorized into four, including teledentistry platform, type of interactions, internet connection, and photography tool. Other thematic results demonstrate seven categories of recommendations, including general factors, light, patient position, phone position, setting of a mobile phone camera, photo sending requirements, and photo visualization. Conclusion According to the results, over the past 7 years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, social network applications such as WhatsApp and Zoom have been used more frequently. Also, photography recommendations with a mobile phone camera depend on several factors such as general factors, light, patient position, phone position, setting of the mobile phone camera, and photo-sending requirements. Given the increased use of mobile cameras for oral photography, these recommendations can help improv...

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