Teledentistry support in COVID-19 oral care

Telles-Araujo, Gabriel de Toledo; Caminha, Raquel D’Aquino Garcia; Kallás, Monira Samaan; Santos, Paulo Sérgio da Silva

doi:10.6061/clinics/2020/e2030

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“…Consultation via WhatsApp has been reported as a beneficial option for teledentistry. 19 Teledentistry is a mean of avoiding person-to-person contact while satisfying the requirement of social distancing by facilitating remote dental care, patient education, and guidance which is advocated by health care authorities across the globe.Teledentistry has various subunits such as teleconsultation, telediagnosis, telemonitoring, and teletriage. Teleconsultation helps in reducing nonurgent patient referrals and reduces burden on busy health care facilities.…”

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“…Photographs, video images, data, history, and records can be shared between participants who are physically separated for a reason. 2 To reduce the burden on frontliners and to flatten the curve of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID- 19), guidelines have been issued by American Dental Association (ADA). These guidelines state that all nonemergency oral health care facilities should be postponed and only emergency care is to be provided, for example, conditions such as uncontrolled bleeding, cellulitis, and trauma to facial bones that compromises the airway (Teledentistry update: navigating teledentistry during the COVID-19 pandemic (United States).…”

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Role of Teledentistry in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationwide Comparative Analysis among Dental Professionals

Abbas

Wajahat²,

Saleem³

et al. 2020

Eur J Dent

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Objectives To assess knowledge, awareness, and practice of health care workers about the role of teledentistry in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Materials and Methods A prevalidated structured questionnaire was used to evaluate awareness of general dentists, postgraduate dental students, dental educators, and consultants with postgraduation degrees toward teledentistry. The acceptability, reliability, and language clarity were also pretested. A total of 510 dental professionals contributed to this study. Statistical Analysis A statistical analysis using SPSS (version 20.0) was performed. Responses were noted as yes or no. A p-value of ≤ 0.05 was considered to be significant. Frequencies described data. Chi-square test was performed for intergroup comparison to evaluate if the knowledge and attitude diverge with the increase in the level of seniority in the profession. Results Awareness regarding teledentistry is high among general dentists with bachelor of dental surgery qualification in comparison to final-year students and postgraduate dental students. The majority of participants agreed with improvement in health care (88.20%), access to rural areas (82.90%), and general practicing dentist agreed with statistically significant difference (0.00) on saving time by teledentistry. Conclusion General practicing dentist was observed with high awareness of teledentistry as compared with postgraduate and undergraduate dental students.

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Role of Teledentistry in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationwide Comparative Analysis among Dental Professionals

Abbas

Wajahat²,

Saleem³

et al. 2020

Eur J Dent

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“… 42 Lending a patient ear to someone ensures ease in anxiety and fear amongst the distressed population. 43 It helps the practitioner to record a detailed case history without coming in actual contact with the patient. Education posters regarding hygiene or respiratory etiquettes, screenshots of updated Aarogya setu App can be shared between dentist and patient on the phone itself.…”

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Comprehensive review of guidelines to practice prosthodontic and implant procedures during COVID-19 pandemic

Pruthi

Parkash

et al. 2020

Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research

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Objectives To present a comprehensive review of current literature available on Corona virus disease and dentistry, modifications required in dental and laboratory settings; and recommended disinfection protocols in current scenario. Special emphasis has been given to discuss guidelines for handling different prosthodontic procedures and implications of this pandemic on prosthodontic practice, education and research. Materials and methods Relevant literature pertaining to COVID-19 and dentistry was scrutinized on electronic search engines including PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane. Guidelines given by various organizations, institutions, national and international regulatory bodies and Indian Prosthodontic Society were also consulted to gather information pertaining to the objectives of our review. Results and observations: A total of 160 articles including cross-sectional studies, in vitro study, narrative reviews, letters to the editor and opinions were found to be relevant in accordance with our search strategy. Documented literature revealed that Covid-19 pandemic has culminated in serious clinical, financial and psychological implications in the field of dentistry. Certain steps such as adoption of teledentistry, judicious use of protective equipment, use of rubber dams, pre-procedural rinses have been suggested unanimously. However, there is a dearth of evidence-based recommendations in literature. Data regarding consequences of delaying prosthodontic procedures and patients’ perspectives is also sparse. Conclusion The COVID-19 necessitates the need to adopt a balanced approach while treating patients and safeguarding the dental professionals at the same time. Risk-benefit ratio has to be assessed along with stringent following of guidelines and disinfection protocols to combat this unprecedented situation.

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“…En un estudio confirmaron el uso de WhatsApp como soporte en el diagnóstico oral, en el que el 82 % de los casos teleconsultados coinciden con el diagnóstico clínico-patológico, lo que sugiere que es una buena opción para la teleodontología (Petruzzi et al, 2016;Telles et al, 2020).…”

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La Teleodontología una Herramienta Fundamental en Tiempos de Pandemia y post COVID -19, su Utilidad en las Diferentes Especialidades Odontológicas

Morón-Araújo

2021

Int. J. Odontostomat.

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Teledentistry support in COVID-19 oral care

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Role of Teledentistry in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationwide Comparative Analysis among Dental Professionals

Role of Teledentistry in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationwide Comparative Analysis among Dental Professionals

Comprehensive review of guidelines to practice prosthodontic and implant procedures during COVID-19 pandemic

La Teleodontología una Herramienta Fundamental en Tiempos de Pandemia y post COVID -19, su Utilidad en las Diferentes Especialidades Odontológicas

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