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METHODS OF TELECONSULTATION IN TELEDENTISTRY
Teleconsultation through teledentistry can be applied in the following ways – “Real-Time Dental Consultation” and “Dental File Store-and Forward Method”
Real-Time Dental Consultation involves a secure videoconference in which dental professionals and their patients, while in different locations, may see, hear, and communicate with one another. Dental File Store-and-Forward Method involves the exchange of clinical dental information, high definition video clips and static images collected and stored by the dental practitioner, who securely forwards them for consultation and treatment planning. The patient is not usually present during the “store and forward consultation. Dentists can share patient information, radiographs, raphical representations of periodontal and hard tissues, therapies applied, lab results, tests, remarks, photographs, video clips, and other information transportable through multiple providers. This data sharing can be very important for patients, especially those in need of specialist consultation. A third method has also been described, known as “Remote Video Monitoring Method”, in which patients are monitored using a secure videoconference platform at a distance and can either be hospital-based or home-based.
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