Relevance of Teledentistry: Brief Report and Future Perspectives

Fornaini, Carlo; Rocca, Jean‐Paul

doi:10.18502/fid.v19i25.10596

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“…This finding aligns with previous studies highlighting the potential of teledentistry to provide accurate diagnoses remotely [ 9 , 10 ]. Remote consultations, facilitated by advanced imaging technologies and virtual communication tools, have enabled dental professionals to assess oral health conditions effectively.…”

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“…While the in-person group exhibited higher accuracy rates, the teledentistry group, although slightly less accurate, still demonstrated a commendable level of diagnostic precision. This finding aligns with previous studies highlighting the potential of teledentistry to provide accurate diagnoses remotely [9,10]. Remote consultations, facilitated by advanced imaging technologies and virtual communication tools, have enabled dental professionals to assess oral health conditions effectively.…”

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Evaluating the Impact of Teledentistry on Patient Outcomes, Diagnostic Accuracy, and Satisfaction in a Prospective Observational Analysis

Chatterjee,

Geethika Lakshmi,

Mustafa Khan

et al. 2024

Cureus

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Background Teledentistry, defined as the use of telecommunication technologies for dental care, has emerged as a transformative approach to oral health services. This prospective observational analysis aims to comprehensively assess the impact of teledentistry on patient outcomes and satisfaction, addressing key aspects such as diagnostic accuracy, longitudinal treatment outcomes, and economic and logistical considerations. Methods The study involved 242 participants selected from diverse dental clinics offering teledentistry services. Participants could choose between traditional in-person visits and teledentistry consultations. The teledentistry interventions included remote consultations, diagnostic evaluations, and treatment planning facilitated through virtual communication tools. Baseline assessments captured initial dental conditions, and follow-up assessments were conducted at three, six, and 12 months. Outcome measures included diagnostic accuracy, patient satisfaction, changes in dental conditions over time, and economic and logistical feedback. Results Descriptive statistics revealed baseline characteristics, with participants evenly distributed between in-person and teledentistry groups. However, the overall satisfaction with diagnoses was significantly lower in the teledentistry group as compared to the in-person group (p < 0.001). Longitudinal assessments demonstrated comparable changes in dental conditions between the two groups. Economic feedback highlighted a cost-saving advantage for teledentistry users, with 80% reporting reduced expenses. Conclusion This study highlights the transformative potential of teledentistry in expanding access to oral health services, reducing costs, and providing comparable treatment outcomes to traditional in-person care. Future efforts should focus on enhancing the teledentistry experience, addressing patient satisfaction concerns, and refining the delivery of remote dental care to maximize its benefits for both patients and healthcare systems.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Evaluating the Impact of Teledentistry on Patient Outcomes, Diagnostic Accuracy, and Satisfaction in a Prospective Observational Analysis

Chatterjee,

Geethika Lakshmi,

Mustafa Khan

et al. 2024

Cureus

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“…The use of mHealth technologies in dentistry in a local setting is relatively new, despite its prominent use in other medical disciplines. 40 Therefore, it is not easy to compare and support the hypotheses tested using current literature when there is little relevance to its use in dentistry. This study offered some insight into users' experience of technology.…”

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Experience of primary caregivers in utilising an mHealth application for remote dental screening in preschool children

et al. 2023

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Objectives This study aimed to address the acceptance of mHealth applications for a dental screening app that facilitates patient information entry and captures dental photos remotely to assist in caries diagnosis in preschool children in Australia. Methods All participants were recruited through the ORIGINS Project, a community-based interventional birth cohort study in Western Australia. Forty-two primary caregivers, who were the users of a teledental screening app, were given a questionnaire with 17 questions; these were constructed based on the theme of the Technology Acceptance Model: perceived ease of use (PE), perceived usefulness (PU), behavioural intention to adopt (BI), anxiety (ANX), attitude toward a behaviour (ATB), and self-efficacy (SE). Cronbach’s alpha was estimated to determine internal consistency. Path analysis was employed to quantify the relationship between each theme. Results The mean values for most themes indicated high satisfaction with the intervention among caregivers (scores out of 5): PE (4.54 ± 0.55), PU (4.65 ± 0.49), BI (4.40 ± 0.65), ATB (4.23 ± 0.70), SE (4.36 ± 0.64). Results indicated high consistency in response in the PE, PU, ATB, and SE (α = 0.74–0.84) and moderate consistency was observed in ANX and BI (α = 0.50–0.62). The overall intention of using the dental screening app was significantly related to both PU and ATB (P < 0.05); in addition, the SE and PE also positively affected the PU. Conclusion The perceived usefulness and attitude toward behaviours influenced the overall behavioural intention of the participants to use the telehealth model in dental screening. Recognising these relationships indicates community readiness for implementing the telehealth application in the dental program and enables identification of areas for improving its diffusion.

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“…This relates to medical images of different types including dentistry (Mohammad-Rahimi et al, 2023), which is of prime attention in this paper. The large size of images causes problems in their storage (Slone et al, 2000;Johnson et al, 2009;HBC, 2023) and/or transferring via communication lines in telemedicine (Fornaini and Rocca, 2022). This leads to the necessity to carry out efficient image compression (Koff and Shulman, 2006;Sanchez Silva, 2010;Flint, 2012).…”

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Intelligent visually lossless compression of dental images

Kryvenko,

Krylova,

Lukin

et al. 2024

Adv. Opt. Technol.

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Background: Tendencies to increase the mean size of dental images and the number of images acquired daily makes necessary their compression for efficient storage and transferring via communication lines in telemedicine and other applications. To be a proper solution, lossy compression techniques have to provide a visually lossless option (mode) where a desired quality (invisibility of introduced distortions for preserving diagnostically valuable information) is ensured quickly and reliably simultaneously with a rather large compression ratio.Objective: Within such an approach, our goal is to give answers to several practical questions such as what encoder to use, how to set its parameter that controls compression, how to verify that we have reached our ultimate goal, what are additional advantages and drawbacks of a given coder, and so on.Methods: We analyze the performance characteristics of several encoders mainly based on discrete cosine transform for a set of 512 × 512 pixel fragments of larger size dental images produced by Morita and Dentsply Sirona imaging systems. To control the visual quality of compressed images and the invisibility of introduced distortions, we have used modern visual quality metrics and distortion invisibility thresholds established for them in previous experiments. Besides, we have also studied the so-called just noticeable distortions (JND) concept, namely, the approach based on the first JND point when the difference between an image subject to compression and its compressed version starts to appear.Results: The rate-distortion dependences and coder setting parameters obtained for the considered approaches are compared. The values of the parameters that control compression (PCC) have been determined. The ranges of the provided values of compression ratio have been estimated and compared. It is shown that the provided CR values vary from about 20 to almost 70 for modern coders and almost noise-free images that is significantly better than for JPEG. For images with visible noise, the minimal and maximal values of produced CR are smaller than for the almost noise-free images. We also present the results of the verification of compressed image quality by specialists (professional dentists).Conclusion: It is shown that it is possible and easy to carry out visually lossless compression of dental images using the proposed approaches with providing quite high compression ratios without loss of data diagnostic value.

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Relevance of Teledentistry: Brief Report and Future Perspectives

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

Evaluating the Impact of Teledentistry on Patient Outcomes, Diagnostic Accuracy, and Satisfaction in a Prospective Observational Analysis

Evaluating the Impact of Teledentistry on Patient Outcomes, Diagnostic Accuracy, and Satisfaction in a Prospective Observational Analysis

Experience of primary caregivers in utilising an mHealth application for remote dental screening in preschool children

Intelligent visually lossless compression of dental images

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