E-Health Care in Dentistry and Oral Medicine : A Clinician’s Guide

This clinically oriented book presents the state of the art in e-health care within dentistry and oral medicine (“e-oral health”) with the aim of acquainting dentists and other oral health care professionals with its uses and advantages, especially with regard to diagnosis. It will assist all who wish to learn about teledentistry protocols and the e-oral health branch or to implement e-oral health solutions and procedures in clinical practice. The book opens by discussing general aspects of e-oral health, including tools, networks, and the very important ethical considerations. The use and specific benefits of e-oral health technologies in the diagnosis of different conditions, orthodontic assessment, implantology evaluation, and caries prevention are then fully explained. Finally, examples are provided of the ways in which teledentistry functions in different countries on different continents. e-Oral health is a burgeoning field that encompasses teledentistry as well as other uses of information and communication technologies for oral health care purposes. This book will be an ideal guide for not only dentists but also dental hygienists, dental nurses, and other professionals. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Definition of Teledentistry (Rodrigo Mariño, Aghareed Ghanim)....Pages 3-14 e-Oral Health Tools (Rodrigo Mariño, Alagesan Chinnasamy)....Pages 15-28 Development of Teledentistry: From Pilot Projects to Successful Implementation (Isabelle Bourdon, Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei, Chris Kimble)....Pages 29-38 Ethics and Teledentistry: Challenges and Questions (Olivier Hamel)....Pages 39-46 The Economics of Teledentistry (Gregoire Mercier, Rodrigo Jose Marino)....Pages 47-57 Front Matter ....Pages 59-59 A Clinical Evaluation of Teledentistry in Oral Health Promotion (Hans Boeckx)....Pages 61-86 e-Implantology (Dimitri Pascual, Vaysse Jérôme)....Pages 87-97 Teledentistry and Orthodontics (Murilo Fernando Neuppmann Feres, Maurilo de Mello Lemos, Marina Guimarães Roscoe, Nicolas Giraudeau)....Pages 99-108 E-Health Care in Oral Cancer (Anacláudia Pereira Costa Flores, Erno Harzheim, Manoela Domingues Martins, Marcelo Rodrigues Gonçalves, Marco Antonio Trevizani Martins, Michelle Roxo Gonçalves et al.)....Pages 109-122 Front Matter ....Pages 123-123 Teledentistry in the United States (Susan J. Daniel, Lindsie Farrow)....Pages 125-130 Teledentistry in Brazil: Tools to Improve the Quality of Oral Health in the Primary Care Setting (Otávio Pereira D’Avila, Cynthia Goulart Molina-Bastos, Rafael Gustavo dal Moro, Erno Harzheim, Marcelo Rodrigues Gonçalves, Roberto Nunes Umpierre et al.)....Pages 131-142 Teledentistry in France: Example of the e-DENT Project (C. Inquimbert, E. Malthierry, G. Arzens, P. Camman, M. Charvier, F. Cuisinier et al.)....Pages 143-154