Efectividad de la teleodontología en pacientes de alto riesgo.

Abstract

Introduction: Teleodontology is the dental care by distance, it is driven by effective use of technology to keep communication in every location. It fulfill necessary activities for education, diagnosis and rehabilitation. The main benefit is to reduce medical visits for patients who are unable to attend clinics in person Methodology: It is made by a systematic research of literature, the searching for this information has been made by Pubmed, Cochrane, Sage Journal, Medigraphic, Scielo and Google Schoolar. In results, we obtained around 3866 articles, using exclusion criteria we finally have 32 articles into this research work. Objective: To determine what is the effectiveness about teleodontology for patients who have a dangerous situation. Results: Teleodontology has a higher level of effectiveness (80%) by the use of virtual resources to give good health care. When you need to schedule it can be made using certain apps like Whatsapp and Mhealth (58%) it works by its easy drive. The most relevant reason why it is helpful: is about getting down the prices (16%) and the most important disadvantage could be the bad network connection, it means that the process should be slow for scheduling (19%). Conclusion: Teleodontology has a higher level of effectiveness giving good results, it is made throught platforms such as Whatsapp or Zoom, it provides support during an emergency of any patients who have high risk diseases and present oral lesions. A big disadvantage to implement the virtual medical appointment is the necessary to have an internet network available.