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Teledentistry and Its Use in Dental Health

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 2574

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Nicolas Giraudeau

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Guest Editor
Centre d'Etudes Politiques et sociaLes: Environnement, Santé, Territoires, 34090 Montpellier, France
Interests: public health; telemedicine; digital health; oral health
Dr. Janneke Scheerman

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Oral Hygiene, Health, Sports and Welfare, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, 3004 1081LA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: oral hygiene; prevention and public health; oral health promotion; behaviour change; mobile health; teledentistry; intervention mapping

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The access to oral care for the general population and even more for frail people is a global public health issue. To try to combat this fact, the use of digital technologies had been implemented all over the world with more or less success. Teledentistry seems to be a good tool to improve access to oral health professionals, but still needs some global guidelines and scientific evidence. Teledentistry should be understood as the use of digital technologies to manage medical/dental activity remotely. It means that we include only telediagnosis and teletreatment as teledentistry. 

In every country, the regulation, health policy or medical need is different. That is why it is difficult to propose a universal teledentistry project. We still need to learn from each other to improve our knowledge about teledentistry: how could it be implemented? How will the patient react? How will the professional accept this new activity? Is there a sustainable economic plan for teledentistry? Is it a full revolution or just a new tool? Which device should be used to practice teledentistry? 

There are many questions that we will try to answer in this Special Issue. 

Dr. Nicolas Giraudeau
Dr. Janneke Scheerman
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • telemedicine
  • digital health
  • public health
  • AI
  • oral health

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Teledentistry and Forensic Odontology: Qualitative Study on the Capacity of Implementation
by Céline Sabourin, Nicolas Giraudeau, Eric Baccino, Frédéric Camarasa, Laurent Martrille and Camille Inquimbert
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(19), 6807; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20196807 - 22 Sep 2023
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The postmortem identification of people without an identity is performed either by using DNA, dental charts, or fingerprints (until advanced decomposition prevents their study). The lack of forensic dentists who can conduct identifications lead us to reflect on the use of digital technology [...] Read more.
The postmortem identification of people without an identity is performed either by using DNA, dental charts, or fingerprints (until advanced decomposition prevents their study). The lack of forensic dentists who can conduct identifications lead us to reflect on the use of digital technology in this area. The aim of this study was to validate the organizational capacity of using teledentistry for the identification of bodies in a forensic medicine department. A mixed observational study was conducted on 55 cases between July 2020 and February 2021 in the Forensic Medicine and Thanatology Department of Montpellier University Hospital. The protocol was structured in five steps: an initial interview with the agent (a forensic autopsy technician/caregiver specialized in forensic medicine), regarding the idea they had in terms of using telemedicine in their daily practice; agent training in the telemedicine system; realization of a clinical examination using an intra-oral camera by the agent; data analysis by a dental surgeon; final interview with the agent. The study was conducted on 55 subjects. The average age was 54 years old, with more than two-thirds of the patients being male (69%). The videos had an average duration of 29 min. There was an increase in visit duration when rigidity was high; this was also the case when there were many dental specificities in the oral cavity. The quality of the videos was either good or excellent. This study showed that remote identification could be considered as a new non-invasive identification tool. Many features were analyzed to create a training guide for forensic institutes. Full article
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