CURRENT PERSPECTIVES OF TELEDENTISTRY

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1593152306036

• Palavras-chave: Teledentistry; Telehealth; Dentistry

• Keywords: Teledentistry; Telehealth; Dentistry

• Abstract:

  INTRODUCTION: Teledentistry can be defined as the remote provision of dental care, advice or treatment through information technology rather than through direct personal contact with any patient involved. Some of the main modes and methods used in teledentistry are electronic medical records, electronic reference systems, image scanning, teleconsultations and telediagnosis. GOAL: To report the current perspectives of teledentistry in the Brazilian scenario. METHODS: The research was carried out in the Virtual Health Library (VHL) database, using adjunct descriptors of the Boolean operators: Teleodontologia and Telehealth and Dentistry. The research language was English and Portuguese, and 5 articles were selected in the last 10 years. RESULTS: In Primary Health Care, teledentistry has proven to be an excellent tool to overcome geographic and territorial barriers, through tracking, active search, monitoring of priority and risk users, thus fulfilling the principles established by the SUS of universality, in addition to allowing contact between general practitioners and specialists. Teledentistry also reaches private services to carry out pre-screening and actions in preventive education, improving coverage and reducing costs and waiting times.  FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: TeleDentistry is a technological instrument that, due to the good results, should have better investments and more studies need to be carried out so that it can have a greater extension in the insertion process in Dentistry.