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ReviewJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2016

Dental Informatics in India: Time to Embrace the Change.

Kumar Gaurav Chhabra, Salma H Mulla, Shravani Govind Deolia, Chaya Chhabra, Jagjeet Singh, Baldeep Singh Marwaha

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Review in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Can Orthodontic Informatics Combat the Pandemic Pitfalls?The Journal of Indian Orthodontic Society · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kumar Gaurav ChhabraReader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital , Narnadi, Boranada, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India .
Salma H MullaSenior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Al-Ameen Dental College and Hospital , Bijapur, Karnataka, India .
Shravani Govind DeoliaSenior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sharad Panwar Dental College and Hospital , Sawangi, Meghe, Wardha, Maharasthra, India .
Chaya ChhabraReader, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital , Narnadi, Boranada, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India .
Jagjeet SinghReader, Department of Prosthodontics and Implantology, Pacific Dental College and research centre , Udaipur, Rajasthan, India .
Baldeep Singh MarwahaReader, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Rama Dental College, Hospital & Research Centre , Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India .

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dental informatics is comparatively a juvenile and new field that has noteworthy potential for supporting clinical care, research, education and management. This field utilizes computer science, information sciences and the application of same to espouse dentistry. However, in the under-developed and developing countries almost most of the dentists are unacquainted about dental informatics, its goals, what it is capable of achieving and by what means they can get involved into it. Despite of emerging advances, certain conflicts also go along with it such as, professional under representation, security issues of the stored information due to universal access to computers high speed internet connections. Endnote software was used as resource material to collect literature which was carefully arranged in a synchronized way. Hence, the purpose of this review was to give an overall scenario of dental informatics, its applications, challenges and recommendations for further enhancement in this area.

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BioinformaticsDental careDental educationInformation systems

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PMID27135022
PMCPMC4843407

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