Oral Health and Dental Management

Urban smiles- e-dentistry and tele-dentistry applications: International perspectives

7^th Global Dentists and Pediatric Dentistry Annual Meeting

March 31- April 01, 2016 Valencia, Spain

Sajeesh Kumar

University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

The Department of Dental Hygiene at University of Tennessee HSC has operated a community dental program called Urban Smiles since 2004 to meet the preventive dental needs of young children in Memphis city schools. At Urban Smiles, traditional clinical screenings for dental caries are performed by licensed general dentists who authorize dental hygiene students to provide preventative services under the supervision of licensed dental hygienists employed by UTHSC�??s Department of Dental Hygiene. The Urban Smiles program is incorporating tele-dentistry screenings with traditional clinical screenings, hence the licensed dental hygienists could perform clinical screenings, capture intraoral images, and send the images electronically to off-site dentists who could screen remotely for caries and provide authorization to treat.

Biography :

Email: skumar10@uthsc.edu