dental informatics

..CDS has its greatest potential at the point of care where it can facilitate good-quality evidence-based decision-making...

..This article describes a practical proposal that integrates 2 existing standards, HL7 and DICOM, to create a standard for electronic orthodontic patient records...

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b>Dental Informatics (DI) is the application of computer and information science to improve dental practice, research, education, and program administration...

..The network security protocols discussed comply with HIPAA regulations and boost the efficiency of a modern orthodontic clinic...

..This study documents the use of an EPR system to objectively and efficiently assess one aspect of quality of care in a dental school environment...

..This study was designed to test a cumulative view of current data in the clinical database at the Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University. We planned to examine associations among demographic factors and treatments...

..three by deans, and ten by instructional technology (IT) managers, IT committee chairs, or directors of dental informatics departments...

..The author reviewed usage of services for 1988-1998 to analyze use by alumni and nonalumni and to determine possible trends...

..of the medical informatics family, and as such is younger than health informatics, nursing informatics, and dental informatics. It's task is to assist biologists and medical doctors to recognize and interfere the human life information ..

..health services researchers; health educators; and specialists in utilization review/outcomes assessment, dental informatics, nutrition, program evaluation, and prevention...

b>Dental informatics is a young scientific discipline that is undergoing continual maturation...

The "informatics revolution" in both bioinformatics and dental informatics will eventually change the way we practice dentistry...

..8 percent). The tooth most commonly treated was the mandibular first molar (20.1 percent). Procedural errors were found in 6.1 percent of cases and were more likely to occur in mandibular molars vs. maxillary molars...

..Numerous methods have been developed for recording cleft lip and palate deformities, but none has been universally accepted due to limitations, inadequate description of the cleft deformities, and varying complexity...

..This article attempts to review the evolution and progress of dental informatics as a specialty and its applications in oral pathology.

..In October, 2006, The American Dental Association (ADA) Standards Committee on Dental Informatics (SCDI) Joint Working Group 10...

..The results showed that feature selection improved classification accuracy while simultaneously determining which measurements were relevant. ..

..The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare visible and near infrared detection methods for identifying early non-cavitated ex vivo occlusal demineralization...

..This descriptive article presents an overview of the experiences involved in developing this COI and provides a conceptual framework for an online COI...

..Patient education should be meaningfully integrated into the workflow shared by dentists, their team members and patients, in order to maximize its outcomes...

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..We conclude that salivary biomarkers detected by high-resolution mass spectrometry coupled with powerful bioinformatic tools offer the potential to serve as diagnostic/prognostic tools for SjS...

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..However, a necessary first step involves developing procedures to identify messages that are worth studying given our resources for planned, labor-intensive research...

..The past, present, and future of dental office computer systems is explored in this article. An understanding of the benefits and current challenges of contemporary dental practice software is also reviewed...

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..This paper first gives an overview of a sequential processing and then applies the resulting model to the particular case...

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..To synthesize currently existing data and investigate the prevalence of tooth transposition as well as its relation to gender, dental arch, and quadrant occurrence...

..Dental Branch about evidence-based dentistry, search strategies, critical appraisal of the literature, and dental informatics. Students learned to develop a clinical question, conduct a search to find answers to that question, and ..

..In particular, this article describes the first Web-based Electronic Medical Record (DocSapiens.com), which is able to view and edit DICOM files directly online...

..The benefits and barriers to adoption of online records will be presented to provide a frame of reference for the next major shift in electronic communication...

..The change in the delivery method influenced the students' comprehension of the material negatively and the learning environment positively, but did not influence online collaboration among students...

..Survey results are used to examine characteristics and to compare the charitable care rendered by practicing prosthodontists to the dental field at large...

..With the explosion in the use of information technology within a dental office, this web-site will serve as the one-stop resource for credible scientific information for practitioners...

..It enables the specialist located many miles away to make a diagnosis and recommend treatment options and/or referral...

..By sharing lessons learned and knowledge about the science of implementation, we hope to reduce failures and costs for dental schools embarking on large-scale information technology implementations...

..The habits of newer graduates vary somewhat from those of earlier graduates; the habits of specialists vary from those of general practitioners...

..This article introduces the basic skills of evidence-based dentistry. Their practice requires a discipline of lifelong learning in which recent and relevant scientific evidence are translated into practical clinical applications...

..Sources of summarized evidence are mentioned that can be accessed via the Internet, especially those that summarize evidence of the greatest research rigor that have been summarized systematically...

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..Conclusion Current dental software could be significantly improved with regard to its support for communication and collaboration, workflow, information design and presentation, information content, and data entry...

..The usability of dental computer-based patient record (CPR) systems has not been studied, despite early evidence that poor usability is a problem for dental CPR system users at multiple levels...

..001). As information technology has turned into an ever more necessary working tool in epidemiology, there should be an important potential for uptake of further improvements in electronic data capture in the future...

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..More systematic reviews related to orthodontic topics are published each year, although little has been done to evaluate their search and selection methodologies...

..The ADA sponsors standards programs for all areas of dentistry, including dental materials and products and dental informatics. ANSI/ADA Specification No...

This study investigated knowledge, opinions, and experience regarding dental informatics and computers among first-year dental students (D1s) and fourth-year dental students (D4s).

..Current thinking tends to focus on relatively conserved "haplotype blocks" instead of single genetic markers, although there is no consensus on the utility of this emphasis...

..Introduction of a new grid-based method for analyzing speech functions which takes into account the related information of patients' data and the oral air flow with pronouncing analyzed by computational fluid dynamics...

..To date, dentistry's integration into this network has not been discussed widely...

..Examples of ways in which clinical trials of other diseases have benefited from the use of new methods and technologies and FDA considerations were also discussed...

..This paper discusses the role of dental informatics research vis-à-vis the doctor-patient relationship and explores how it may inform the next generation of ..

b>Dental informatics is an emerging discipline applying computer and information science to dental practice, research, education, and management. To date, the dental informatics research literature has not been comprehensively reviewed...

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..One of its subdisciplines, dental informatics, is beginning to emerge as its own entity...

..A quality matrix identifies target values for dental informatics while demonstrating an "importance-weighting" of dental characteristics.

b>Dental informatics is a relatively new field that has significant potential for supporting clinical care. Most dentists are unaware of what dental informatics is, what its goals are, what it has achieved and how they can get involved in it...

..The design of tele-educational system could serve as a model for self-evaluation of interpreting skills in dental tumor images as part of Continuous Medical Education (CME) in the future...

..Furthermore, the role of dentistry in shared-care environments is discussed and illustrated in the form of a future scenario...

..Dentists report that the complexity and poor usability of practice management systems (PMSs) are factors in the slow adoption of computers at chairside...

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Uptake of dental informatics has been hampered by technical and user issues. Innovative systems have been developed, but usability issues have affected many...

..Over the longer term, future informatics tools, combined with other medical and dental technology modalities, promise more adaptive, patient-focused and efficient healthcare and education for the practitioner and the patient...

..The quality of these products varies widely. Working Group 5 of the Standards Committee for Dental Informatics has published an initial set of guidelines to help course designers develop high-quality instructional ..

..It is a general discussion of common legal concepts that could face an OMS, but it is not, nor is it intended to be, legal advice...

..No studies have investigated the inclusion of a three-dimensional (3-D) charting interface in a general dental record...

..The new enterprise-level gadgets that use third-generation technologies are also introduced...

..In this study, the applicability of CBA methods in dentomaxillofacial radiology is evaluated...

..Overall, limited speech functionality reduces the ability of clinicians to interact directly with the computer during clinical care. This can hinder the benefits of electronic patient records and clinical decision support systems...

..The approach audits current maturity of usage and staff competency to help develop improvement plans for dental practices. The article describes how the model has been made freely available to dental practices over the Internet...

..The aim of the current report was to generate and explore new hypotheses into how, in a pathophysiological sense, atherosclerosis and periodontitis could be linked...

..To assess whether structured abstracts improved the sensitivity, precision and yield of retrieving clinical trials, using electronic searches, for example, MEDLINE, from dental journals...

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..b>Dental informatics faces two critical challenges...

..Questionnaires will include RDC/TMD axis I and II, coping strategies questionnaire, a self report fibromyalgia screening form, and IMPATH. ..

..IL-1-ra will be given s.c. (21-day release pellets) in the capsular region of diseased animals. Serum levels of IL-1-ra will be determined by ELISA. ..

..The knowledge gained will unravel new strategies to promote regeneration of inflamed human lacrimal glands that would restore adequate aqueous tear production. ..

..The knowledge gained will unravel new strategies to promote regeneration of inflamed human lacrimal glands that would restore adequate aqueous tear production. ..

..Selective inhibitors of JNK, ERK, and/or iNOS will be given subcutaneously to diseased and control female mice. ..