Importance of Technology in Dental Department within Healthcare Industry

This article discusses the importance of technology in the dental department within the healthcare industry, challenges faced by dentists during technology implementation, and evaluation of advanced technology for higher growth. The literature review highlights the significance of technology in providing better and effective care services, the different technologies used in dental care, and the issues faced while implementing new technology. The research aims to identify the importance of technology on productivity and performance of the healthcare industry.

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Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
RESERACH AIMS..........................................................................................................................1
RESERACH OBJECTIVES............................................................................................................1
RESERACH QUESTIONS.............................................................................................................2
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................2
RESERACH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................6
Search strategy.............................................................................................................................6
EVALUATION................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS............................................................................9
REFLECTION...............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
There is need to for the use of better and effective response which are associated with taking
care of business and improve the organisational performance and productivity. This is the one
that can lead to create high impact that are associated with taking care of patient health. There is
need to ensure about the learning which are effective and help in future professional
development. Through getting internship can allow to provide better and effective response
which are associated with taking care of good health. Through placement, it can allow to provide
better and effective response which are associated with improving the professional learning the
healthcare department (Abd & et. al., (2020)). This organisation is one of the highly reputed
organisation that allow to provide better learning during placement and help in gaining many
experience. This can also help in getting better and effective response that can allow to improve
better outcomes that are associated with providing better understanding about the using of
resources that may also include better delivery of care services and learn to use different
technology which are associated with improving performance and productivity within the
organisation which also lead to create high profitability for the business. Here, Dental
department includes in the healthcare sector which can lead to create high impact on creating
high business opportunity and this organisation uses different technology which are associated
with taking care of better and effective role which are associated with ensuring about better deal
with the organisation in context to improve performance and productivity. In this, there is
discussion about the use of technology within the dental care service organisation. There is also
discussion about the different key issues, theories, themes and models which are associated with
health care organisation.
RESERACH AIMS
“To identify the importance of technology on productivity and performance of health care
industry.”
RESERACH OBJECTIVES
 To identify the importance of technology in dental department within health care
industry.
 To determine challenges or difficulties that dentists in health care setting can face during
implementing the technology.
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 To evaluate advanced technology that healthcare professionals in health care setting can
implement for higher growth.
RESERACH QUESTIONS
 What is the importance of technology in the dental department within the healthcare
industry?
 What are the challenges or difficulties that a dentists within the healthcare settings can
face during the implementation of technology?
 What is evaluation of advanced technology which the healthcare professionals within the
healthcare settings can implement for higher growth?
LITERATURE REVIEW
According to Abed & et. al., (2019), there are large number of population who need
proper and effective dental care for which they need to perform different role which are
associated with taking care of their health. There are many oral diseases which are associate with
dental care which require proper care and treatment. Towards this, there is need for the dental
care where use of technology is highly important and able to provide better and effective
response toward the care of patient for their dental health problem. There is also need to ensure
about taking care of effective response towards use of better technology which are associated
with taking care of better health which are also include better delivery of care services within the
large population. There is also need to get ensure about taking care of good health that may
influence about delivery of effective care through using different technology which are used for
taking care of patient oral health. There is high importance of technology that are associated with
delivery of better and effective care which are associated with providing better positive impact
on the dental health. Within organisation, there is risk of getting high chance to provide better
quality of dental care services that may influence about providing better impact on the services
delivery.
According to Ahmadian & et. al., (2019), there is high importance of technology which
are effective and can lead to create high impact on delivery of better dental care. This can lead to
create high impact on the delivery of better care which are associated with ensuring about
improvement in the patient health. There is various technology which has been introduced in the
last decade where it need to provide better care for the patient with dental problems. Thera are
many technologies which may include Intraoral camera, Kodak digital radiography, Picasso soft
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tissues Laser, Velscope VX and many more. These are effective and have better positive
response towards taking care of oral health. There are also many other technologies which can be
effective and help to get better response towards delivery of better care service and treatment to
the large population which may associates with including effective response. There is high
importance of technology in the dentistry. There are many healthcare professionals who are able
to use those new technologies in their daily practice which allow them to use those in providing
better and effective response towards the taking care patient dental health.
According to Albano & et. al., (2019), dental care is getting change with time in which
there is need to get ensure about using of different technology that are associated with taking
care of patient oral health. There are large number of population that are associated with ensuring
about improving patient oral health. Dental care is also getting change with time in which there
are many technologies are used to provide better and effective oral healthcare services that are
associated with ensuring about proper health. This may include better care and support for
getting effective response towards delivery of quality care services. There is high improvement
in the technology in last few decades where different technology has been introduced for the
dental care which are effective and have the potential to provide better outcomes. There is high
innovation in the technology which also include different innovation where it also includes
dentistry. There are many technologies that are introduce in the market which have better
positive aspect and have better performance. There is also need to ensure about taking care of
better and effective role which are associated with improving in delivery of better care and
ensure about positive outcomes.
According to Alhammadi & et.al., (2018), technology plays an important role in dealing
with different oral health related issues within the care services. There is different technology
that can help in getting better care of patient health which may also include better dealing with
different care for patient with dental health issues. There are many issues in implementing new
technology in the dental practices. There are many people which need to take care of effective
response of using those technologies that are associated with ensuring about taking care of
people. There is some of the issue which cn arise while using of those new technology in the
practices. These issues may include economic problem, their performance, their efficiency,
ensuring about negative impact, issue in automating business. There are large number of issue
that may arise while getting better care for patient that are associated with ensuring about
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improvement in better care and help patient to get better positive outcomes. In context to
economy, cost of technology use and their maintenance can one of the big reason that may create
difficulty to use and implement that technology in the general way.
According to Euceda Nunez, (2022), there are many technologies which may requires
more maintenance or need for high cost for purchasing. This may lead to create issues in making
profit from it, that lead to create risk of failure of that technology. There are another issues while
getting adaptation of technology and use them to deliver dental care services in the technology.
There is need to get healthcare support which are associated with ensuring about improving
better and effective care which are associated with their performance. There is need to get ensure
about the technology performance that may include better dealing with positive outcomes for the
care services. It is essential to ensure about the performance of technology that may include
better and effective response that can help to provide better impact on the dentistry. There is
another isseus while using the new technology that its efficiency. Here, efficiency plays an
important role towards adopting the technology for delivering dental care services to patient.
This provides the efficiency of positive health impact on the patient and should not have any
negative health impact. There is also need to get ensure about taking care of patient health which
are associated with improving dental healthcare professional performance along with their
productivity.
According to Gavriilidou & Belibasakis, (2019), technology is very important now a day,
Dental care technology department play a major role in patient treatment. Technology can help
dental clinics to increase the productivity level, as the digital technologies used in dental clinics
are digital X-rays, intra oral cameras, dental laser surgeries, digital optical scanner and computer
assisted design, computer assisted manufacture etc. Dental laser surgery is very beneficial for
patients; Doctors can also take advantage of it. Laser technology can reduce the time of dental
surgery, So the patient can easily hold the operate procedures and increases their satisfaction and
outcomes by pain free experience, doctors increase their productivity level as doing number of
surgeries in a day. Intra oral scanners are leads to scanning of the oral cavity, it can help to
detects the dental arches and then gives a 3D image of the tooth with the help of scanning
software, this will take a short time to complete the procedure of scanning and gives higher
productivity. Increment the telephone interaction and communication to the patients for easily set
the appointment of a consultation to the doctor, this can increase the patients comfort and it
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directly affects the level of productivity, to reduce the time patient in the waiting area also makes
patients comfortable helps to staying motivated this can also improve productivity. CRISPR is
new technology in which editing of genome is performed, to deducts the plaque formation into
the gums and veins of tooth and it may also help in reducing the chances of oral cancer.
According to Ghadimi & et. al., (2018), with advancement in dental technology, oral
problems can be caught early and can be treated in half of the time than they were before. The
Artificial Intelligence Algorithim allow the healthcare system to analyse the health data, suitable
techniques, research findings for specific patients. INTRAORAL CAMERA allow the dentist to
take picture of patient’s teeth and gum and clearly see the affected area. With DIGITAL
RADIOGRAPHY, X ray can be created instantly and made it easy to determine which treatment
and procedure should be opted. SOFT TISSUE LASER made it easy to perform non-invasive
procedures and perfection with the minimum discomfort to patients. VELESCOPE VX are used
in advanced care to discover oral abnormalities which include cancerous and non-cancerous
lesions. The TELEDENTISTERY allow the patient to access the oral or dental care easily and at
cheaper cost. COMPUTER ASSIGNED DESIGN (CAD) AND 3D PRINTING are low cost
effective labs, which prepare the crown immediately with the help of image taken with computer.
3D printers are also able to produce surgical guides, orthodontic models. This help in improving
workflow, reduce the amount of labour and time and are cost effective. CRISPR is genome
editing model with it researcher is conducting studies to isolate and treat oral cancer associated
genes, and to deform the bacteria which is responsible for plaque formation.
According to Gordon & McGonigle, (2018), dental models are used by the dentist for the
three dimensional study of size and relationship of the patient teeth. It is providing the vital
information about patient teeth. There are some types of dental models which are preliminary
cast, case study models and documentation cast. These models are used for better understanding
of the teeth and jaw. Dental models can be made by different types of dental stones, metal or
plastic. There are use for diagnosis of teeth for planning cosmetic dentistry, oral surgery and
orthodontics. It gives the information is accurate about teeth and the surrounding soft tissue.
Once the model is complete dentist will able to detect abnormalities and problem within teeth.
Models gives a permanent record of patient's malocclusion and provide visual data. That help in
the monitoring the changes during treatment. A good study model is useful for the patient
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education and visualizing the treatment process. These models are also useful in the patient
treatment during follow up visit.
RESERACH METHODOLOGY
Search strategy
The search strategy is generally important to collect the specific as well as relevant
information which is linked with the provided topic generally based on importance of technology
on productivity and performance of dentistry within health care industry. In this, for collecting
the information and its selection that is significantly linked with the provided topic is mainly
based over the various webpages. Therefore, there are multiple websites as well as the search
engines which are available in which several relevant as well as validated articles are selected to
effectively review as well as aggregate the necessary information as well as the information
gathering platform that is relevant for the research process as well. In addition to this, both the
PubMed and PMC are considered as a great source of the data which is helpful for collecting the
data that is required for an effective research.
In this, a critical review was generally carried out over the fast moving as well as an
expansive topic. The search can offer a descriptive account of the recent literature of the topic, a
critical review is mainly concerned with determining the conceptual as well as a methodological
improvements which can describes the contemporary understanding over the provided topic. In
this, the phenomenon of the digital technology can cross cuts the disciplinary boundaries which
generally needs an approach that would allow a person to reveal the breath of the given subject
region, can highlights the region of the recent interest as well as signpost the effective gaps
within the literature as well. As an outcome, the review generally has involve an objective of
appraising the conceptual methods specifically used within the literature review on the given
topic within the dentistry as well as utilising the literature over the impact of the digital
technology in the medicine as well as well-being to significantly point towards the region for the
potential conceptual innovations as well. In this, the disruptiveness of the digitalization generally
has contributed towards a dualism in the thinking aspect, one of them which can decreases the
complex problems to a trade-off among the medical efficiencies as well as the ethics. In addition
to this, the literature presented on the digital technology within the dentistry generally tends to
acquire the methods mainly expressing a concern with its effectiveness as well as analysing both
the reliability and validity of its use. Furthermore, an implicit within the method is generally the
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tendency to visualise the influence of the digital technology within dentistry as well as the oral
well-being as an unidirectional, with having less consideration of the needs of the patients and
their interest as well (Gavriilidou & Belibasakis, (2019)).
EVALUATION
The appearance of the net as well as the spread of the computer systems use within the
nineties of the last century generally has led to a critical alterations within the dentistry area. In
this, the dentistry is generally a branch of the medical science which is always a forefront within
the use of refined technologically advanced techniques and materials specifically used because of
the asperity of the biological environment of the mouth. More specifically, both the biological as
well as the physical procedures within the oral cavity are generally the complex system of a
mechanic-physiological conditions by its variability and complexity are significantly always
looking for the new accomplishments as well as the technological progression. In addition to
this, the computerization within the dentistry area generally has began same as in various other
human actions, generally recording the large amount of the informations over the digital media,
as well as by simply replacing the manual information processing to the machine one. In
significant with the dental area of profession, the profession has led to a significant towards the
application of the information technologies as well as can continue to need the special
improvements of the dental orientation as well as applied information technology as well
(Dentistry, e-health and digitalisation: A critical narrative review of the dental literature on
digital technologies with insights from health and technology studies, 2019).
While recording and entering the information about the issues in adapting the system
regarding the marking teeth for a mechanical processing happened. In this, the specific methods
was developed to effectively ease the electronic processing of the data-binomial methods based
on making over the principles of the teeth by the digit numbers, where its first number generally
depicts about the quadrant of the primary as well as a permanent dentition as well as the second
number of the teeth within the quadrant, as specifically visualized from the central line mainly
associating the squares. Though, there are the other approaches of the marking teeth, simply
using the features as well as the number of the graphic symbols, those within the new data age
are generally less losing the values as well as can provide a pathway towards the technologically
empowered approaches. Nowadays, there are multiple industries which are specifically
participated in producing the software which can serves to the computer such as management
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within the dental surgery. From the abundance of these such software is quite challenging to
select the package of software which can optimally can meet the requirements of the dental
healthcare professionals or the dentist as well as the specialists of various different disciplines. In
this, the future of these such software lie within its modularity. The modules for various different
specialists region as well as several multimedia applications are generally an essential part in
choosing the accurate software for the specialist and the dental healthcare professional as well. In
this, an inter-association of these such modules among the software from various different
vendors as well as the sharing of an essential diagnostic data with the other software packages,
even through the internet, will in the future be specifically one of the most essential advantage of
the software for effectively managing the dental departments as well (Dentistry 4.0 technologies
applications for dentistry during COVID-19 pandemic, 2021).
The well-being level 7 standard was generally developed to effectively exchange the
information about the patients among various different software applications. There are various
countries across the nation are specifically investing a great resources within the development as
well as implementation of these such standards within the national well-being structures as well.
In this, the harmonization of the dental software with the global standards will specifically
enable the healthcare professionals as well as the specialists to with a some of the mouse clicks
through the internet can generally reach the general clinical data about the vulnerable patients
from Central National Well-being Database. In addition to this, the centralization can also
enable the access towards the general clinical as well as a dental history information on the
public of various countries who generally seek the aid of healthcare professionals or the dentist
specialists during their vacation. In this, these such approaches using an information technology
will give an enhanced levels of the well-being care services as well as the better well-being care.
Additionally, the determination process within the mass disasters availability of the informations
can significantly contribute to simply enhance the determination of the victims (Information
Systems in Dentistry, 2012).
In this, there is also evaluated that the forensic aspects are generally one of the essential
for the data systems within the dentistry in the healthcare system. It is generally based on the
information which can be obtained from the dental information systems mainly possible is
generally the determination of the vulnerable patients who were generally not conscious of can
be deceased. In this, the technologies of the dentistry generally can take various sources of the
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quality associated data. These such can give the effective positive impacts as well as can
enhances the entire experience of the healthcare professionals and the dentist specialist.
Currently, the healthcare management can specifically incorporates the constant feedbacks of the
vulnerable patients through the online social media.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that there is different technology which are
used in the dental care where it is essential to provide better impact on the patient health. There
is high use of technology which are associated with taking care of better use which can help to
enhance the efficiency of delivery of care services to patient. There are different benefits of using
of technology that are effective and taken in use to delivery better dental care to patient. There
are large number of population that can be effective and can lead to create high impact on
improving dental healthcare professional to improve their performance and organisational
productivity. There is also need to ensure about use of technology in effective way that can help
in getting better improvement that are associated with taking care of patient health. It is
recommended to use different technology that are effective and can help in getting better
improvement to the dental health. There are large number of population who need to provide
better use of technology which are effective and can help in getting better care of patient dental
health. There is need to ensure about proper use of technology in dental which should not include
any type of issues like economic, efficiency and negative health impact or others. It is
recommended to use the technology which can be cost effective and should have positive impact
on the dental care delivery. There is need to ensure that every technology should be effective and
have better response towards taking care of better role that may influence people to use those for
positive response. There is also need to get ensure about implementation of different technology
that can have positive response while practice and help to provide better health improvement
with reduce the recovery time limit (Ghadimi & et. al., (2018)).
REFLECTION
From the research, it is identified by me that the technologies can specifically help the
healthcare professionals as well as the patients to improve the care treatments which is provided
to the patients to reduce the impact of illness. It is analysed by me as a healthcare professional
that the digital imaging technology generally has made it possible for us to effectively screen for
the specific or potential illnesses, can make a detailed health records, clearly exhibit the patients
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about the conditions of their mouth, as well as can perform the specific dental procedures with a
high precision, comfort as well as the efficiency than ever before. Nowadays, the technologies
can specifically aid the other healthcare professionals to spot as well as effectively prevent the
illnesses before they can grow and make it huge. By using the digital scanning as well as
screening equipments, I can effectively able to detect the smallest cavities as well, the gum
illness as well as the oral cancer also. In addition to this, the use of internet must not be
forbidden within the dental operatories for the other dental staff as well. The internet is
considered as an essential tool which can aid the other dental professionals to educate the
patients, can search for the needed data and many more. Furthermore, the digital X-Ray
generally have been on the market for various years. It is known that the digital X-rays are
generally much faster as well as more effective as compared with the traditional radiographs.
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