Application No: 2018-065Chief Investigator: W/Professor Marc Tennant
Project Title:
Evaluation of the effectiveness and cost-saving of a mobile teledentistry in a community-based dental screening amongst Australian school children
Employing oral health professionals other than dentists and embracing telehealth, in dental screening, could facilitate identifying high-risk children at a low-cost and allow them to receive specific care, thus improving children dental health and reducing the use of resources. In view of limitations of the traditional screening approach, the proposed project aims to evaluate the use of teledentistry in community-based dental screening amongst school children, based on dental photographs obtained by a smartphone camera, for a later evaluation by OHTs.