Enhancing smart healthcare in dentistry: an approach to managing patients’ stress

Лабус, Александра; Radenković, Božidar; Rodić, Branka; Barać, Dušan; Malesevic, Adam

doi:10.1080/17538157.2021.1893322

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“…They are primarily more adopted to improve patients’ lifestyles and activities. However, due to extensive use, they permit the collection and transmission of relevant health parameters, such as psychophysiological signals, sleep quality, and body movement, that can detect and manage stress in anticipation or after dental treatment (Labus et al 2021). These digital biomarkers have mainly focused on accelerometer data and heart rate due to the well-established sensors from mass-market wearables.…”

Section: Electronic Dentist–patient Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Forefront of Dentistry—Promising Tech-Innovations and New Treatments

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et al. 2022

JDR Clinical & Translational Research

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Change in our world is happening quickly. For dentistry, this is no exception, and now is the time to foster new opportunities. Advances in the foundational science of dental, oral, and craniofacial health are expanding and enabling personalized care built on strong discoveries in the fields of microbiology, immunology, and neuroscience. Digital communication through electronic health records, patient portals, and teledentistry is emerging as vital new armamentarium for contemporary dental practice. Wearables linked with smartphone apps are trending to monitor pain levels, postoperative symptoms, wound healing, and home oral health habits. Oral fluid diagnostics are rapidly surfacing for use in diagnostics, drug testing, and hormone detection. Manipulation of the oral microbiome is under investigation for caries management and for potential impact on systemic conditions. Resolving mediators of inflammation are promising for addressing the chronic inflammation that plagues periodontal patients. New imaging modalities paired with digital approaches and 3-dimensional printing are formulating disruptions in the technical aspects of dentistry. Augmented reality and virtual reality are providing great potential as teaching tools for dental students and bear promise for lifelong learning for providers. Optimization of information technology and the incorporation of data science partnered with artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve patient care in a learning health care system approach will benefit large numbers of patients. These are exciting times for our profession, yet we need to navigate these paths carefully. Technology needs to significantly and positively change the experience of those involved (patients, dentists, staff, payors). New technologies need to be backed with solid research and implementation science. Automation should focus on improving care with attention to expanding care to the underserved and not lose the critical human connection that our patients need. There is great potential in the emerging innovations yet also great responsibility to ensure they are evidence based on rigorous science and deployable with equity and sensitivity. Knowledge Transfer Statement: This article discusses innovations in technology and treatments that have enormous potential to revolutionize our dental care, including novel concepts in electronic health records, communication between dentists and patients, biologics around diagnosis and treatment, digital dentistry, and, finally, the real-time optimization of information technology. The early implementation and validation of these innovations can drive down their costs and provide better dental and medical services to all members of our society.

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Section: Electronic Dentist–patient Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Forefront of Dentistry—Promising Tech-Innovations and New Treatments

DaSilva

Robinson

Shi³

et al. 2022

JDR Clinical & Translational Research

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“…IoT also increases the strength, efficiency, and usability of installed equipment. IoT is not only about hardware but also about building structures [80]. Some smart healthcare features are shown in Figure 13.…”

Section: Smart Health Carementioning

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Revolutionary Strategies Analysis and Proposed System for Future Infrastructure in Internet of Things

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The Internet of Things (IoT) has changed the worldwide network of people, smart devices, intelligent things, data, and information as an emergent technology. IoT development is still in its early stages, and numerous interrelated challenges must be addressed. IoT is the unifying idea of embedding everything. The Internet of Things offers a huge opportunity to improve the world’s accessibility, integrity, availability, scalability, confidentiality, and interoperability. However, securing the Internet of Things is a difficult issue. The IoT aims to connect almost everything within the framework of a common infrastructure. This helps in controlling devices and, will allow device status to be updated everywhere and at any time. To develop technology via IoT, several critical scientific studies and inquiries have been carried out. However, many obstacles and problems remain to be tackled in order to reach IoT’s maximum potential. These problems and concerns must be taken into consideration in different areas of the IoT, such as implementation in remote areas, threats to the system, development support, social and environmental impacts, etc. This paper reviews the current state of the art in different IoT architectures, with a focus on current technologies, applications, challenges, IoT protocols, and opportunities. As a result, a detailed taxonomy of IoT is presented here which includes interoperability, scalability, security and energy efficiency, among other things. Moreover, the significance of blockchains and big data as well as their analysis in relation to IoT, is discussed. This article aims to help readers and researchers understand the IoT and its applicability to the real world.

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