A Cross-sectional Survey on Knowledge and Awareness of Dental Professionals Towards Medicolegal Issues in Teledentistry in Sharad Pawar Dental College
Anumeha Morey
Public Health Dentistry, Sharad Pawar Dental College, Datta Meghe Institute Of Medical Sciences, Wardha, India.
Vaibhavi Boradkar
Public Health Dentistry, Sharad Pawar Dental College, Datta Meghe Institute Of Medical Sciences, Wardha, India.
Dimpal Rohankar
Public Health Dentistry, Sharad Pawar Dental College, Datta Meghe Institute Of Medical Sciences, Wardha, India.
Avanti Date
Public Health Dentistry, Sharad Pawar Dental College, Datta Meghe Institute Of Medical Sciences, Wardha, India.
Kumar Gaurav Chhabra *
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sharad Pawar Dental College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi Meghe, Wardha, India.
Priyanka Paul
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sharad Pawar Dental College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi Meghe, Wardha, India.
Amit Reche
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sharad Pawar Dental College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi Meghe, Wardha, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Background: Many dental professionals are not familiar with medicolegal issues in teledentistry. Through our survey, many dental professionals will be aware of medicolegal issues in teledentistry.
Objectives: To evaluate the knowledge and awareness regarding medicolegal issues in teledentistry among dental staff and postgraduates and assess the correlation of demographic information with knowledge and awareness regarding medicolegal issues in teledentistry among dental staff and postgraduates.
Methodology: The dental professionals and postgraduates of Sharad Pawar Dental College will be chosen.
Expected Results: Evaluating the knowledge and awareness of medicolegal issues in teledentistry among dental students. A more significant number of dental professionals are not familiar with medicolegal issues in teledentistry.
Conclusion: It is beneficial in long-distance clinical training and preserving with education, screening, and dentist laboratory communication. In rural regions in which there may be a scarcity of specialists, loss of complete and complicated health care teledentistry can amplify care to remote patient populations at an affordable value as well as ease the hassle of a scarcity of specialized dental consultants, with few drawbacks and steady efforts to fight them, teledentistry has promising future and an extended manner to go.
Keywords: Teledentistry, telecommunication, clinical training, distant consultation, networking, health care centers, evaluation and follow - up, affordable fees, long-distance medical education, virtual diagnosis