Digital dentistry uses new technologies and digital dental devices to perform procedures more efficiently.
The digital transformation has also reached the field of dentistry, by speeding up and favoring processes that would take more time. Technologies such as intraoral and facial scanners, computed tomography, software for computer-aided design, 3D printing, portable devices, among others, are part of this transformation called digital dentistry or digital dentistry.
Scientific journals specialized in dentistry, such as Dental Materials, have published articles on this topic. The article: Digital dentistry: the new state of the art: is it disruptive or destructive? published in the January 2020 issue, explores the scope of technology in dentistry and how it has improved it in recent times.
In addition, the publication explains that digital dentistry goes beyond intraoral scanners, since there is a wide variety of new techniques developed for dental practice such as systems that have improved patient care in surgeries, and the development of dental prostheses. Additionally, digital dentistry has opened up research opportunities for materials scientists.
In this way, the new approaches tend to provide greater efficiency and precision, as explained by the author, E. Dianne Rekow. Likewise, it highlights the great advance in the use of data: "The data can be extracted more efficiently for forensic and epidemiological uses."
Digital dentistry includes not only the work of professionals in this area of specialization, but also engineers, technologists, software developers, among others. For this, the digital education of future professionals is necessary.
SCIENCE DIRECT
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0109564119308061
DIGITAL DENTISTRY SOCIETY
https://digital-dentistry.org/mission/
ECONOMIC DENTAL
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