Teledentistry and the Distant Diagnosis of Oral Mucosal Disease

Torres‐Pereira, Cassius Carvalho; Morosini, Imara de Almeida Castro; Fonseca, Bruna Basso

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08973-7_2

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“…26 The evolution of tele-consultation questions the efficiency of current referral systems in oral medicine, as highlighted by Brickley et al 32 Studies by Fonesca et al and Wood et al indicate that pre-surgical assessment through teleconsultations can be as effective as real time consultations. 33,34 In their study, Carrard et al developed a tele-consultation software EstomatoNet, for the telediagnosis of oral lesions. They concluded that specialist's referral for oral lesions were reduced from 96% to 35%.…”

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Tele-dentistry in COVID-19 era: A conduit for dental care in uncertain times

Saqib Habib,

Madiha Khan,

Robia Ghafoor

2024

J Pak Med Assoc

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Tele-dentistry encompasses all sorts of digital technologies that involve the exchange of patient’s clinical data from a distant site for the provision of dental health care. Tele-dentistry has emerged from the concept of telemedicine, which has been in practice since the 19th century. In recent times, an upsurge in the digital technologies was noted, which has made the possibility of remote access to dental care. The outbreak of COVID- 19 pandemic has restricted the normal routine ways of clinical practice. In these challenging times, tele-dentistry serves as effective platform for providing dental health care. Tele-dentistry has vast applications across various disciplines of dentistry, including preventive dentistry, paediatric dentistry, oral medicine, and oral pathology etc. Continue...

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Tele-dentistry in COVID-19 era: A conduit for dental care in uncertain times

Saqib Habib,

Madiha Khan,

Robia Ghafoor

2024

J Pak Med Assoc

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“…Unfortunately, many children and adults suffering from oral diseases are denied regular access to a dental clinic for various reasons, such as economic, geographical and even ethnological issues. In many rural areas, problems such as remote access, population dispersal, climatic differences and road problems, lack of public transport, make it difficult to establish an oral health care center [10,11].…”

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“…However, important factors such as the level of culture and education, per capita income, place of residence and so on are influential in this respect. Statistics also show that more than 60 percent of Iranian provinces have less than 500 dentists and most dentists and specialists reside in major cities of the country [10].…”

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Design the Conceptual Model of Teleconsultation System for Dental Diseases

Moghbeli¹,

Langarizadeh

Moghadam³

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Front Health Inform

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Introduction: Worldwide, people living in rural and remote area with the lack of access to medical care are vulnerable. Despite of improvement in dentistry, dental caries is still one of the prevalent problems among people. By using tele-dentistry and transforming electronic patient information, dental services can be delivered specially in remote area so leads to improve public dental health.Methods: This is an applied development study and 24 dentists and dental radiologists were participated in this survey. The questionnaire was filled out by participant to obtain information about requirement for designing the conceptual model for teleconsultation system for dental problems. Collected data was analyzed by descriptive statics with SPSS version 22 software.Results: According to results patient name and last name, gender, emergency level, sign of the problem, patient history in patient demographic and clinical information section and in system capabilities section, dedicate the space for dentist to diagnosis and the space for seeing diagnosis report by patient was the 100 percent requirement considered. After requirement analysis conceptual model as use case diagram was designed.Conclusion: According to results, using tele-dentistry can improve relationship between specialists and patients without considering the distance and eventually improve public oral health in society.

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“…Most studies found that telediagnosis of oral diseases based on intraoral photographs can offer a valid and reliable alternative to the traditional oral examination. 15,[18][19][20][21] Previous studies were focused on the assessment of the feasibility, validity and reliability of the photographic assessment in comparison to a visual examination as the reference standard. However, research reports on comparing the assessment of intraoral photographs by different members of the dental team are limited.…”

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