e-Health Care in Dentistry and Oral Medicine

This public health oriented book, now in its extensively revised 2nd edition, 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 implement digital oral health programme. 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 public health approach. The book opens by discussing general aspects of e-oral health in public health context, including economics, training, interdisciplinarity and regional and global point of view . The use and specific benefits of data for public health reasons and especially with interest on the trust in the data we could have, an important example of the impact of the good use of medical data and the implementation of AI in research in public health and in policy. . Finally, examples are provided of the ways in which the use of digital technologies in oral health 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 other health professionals and potential implementers of digital oral health intervention in public health field.