Tele-Dentistry and Remote Consultations: The Future of Dental Care

Abstract

With social distancing measures in place, many dental practices (Chen et al., 2003) have had to close their doors or limit their services, leaving patients with limited access to dental care (Arora et al., 2014). As we know, dentistry is one of the top listed risky jobs in the COVID-19 situation (Goswami, 2016). However, one application of telehealth (Amtha et al., 2021, Torosyan et al., 2021) technology is dentistry. Hence, teledentistry and remote consultation offer a solution to this problem, allowing patients to receive dental care from the comfort of their own homes.