Facilitating dental disease screening program in prisoners using an intraoral camera in teledentistry.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To facilitate dental disease screening program in prisoners by testing the diagnostic accuracy of teledentistry examination in comparison to direct oral examination by a dentist.

Materials and methods

This crossover study comprised three phases. Phase I, prisoner health volunteers (PHVs) enrolled teledentistry training for an intraoral camera (IOC) use. Phase II, the PHV used IOC for examining dental diseases of prisoners who reported dental-related problems, and captured symptomatic areas. The PHV and dentist independently determined tentative dental treatment need, comprising dental fillings, scaling, extraction, and surgical removal of impacted tooth. Phase III, another dentist performed direct oral examination of the prisoners who reported problems in phase II

SUBMITTER: Santipipat C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10148622 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature