Clinical Scorecard: Strategies for Promoting Teledentistry Adoption in Dental Care: A Realist Review
At a Glance
Category
Detail
Condition
Teledentistry implementation in oral healthcare
Key Mechanisms
The review aims to examine how implementation strategies interact with contextual conditions to trigger mechanisms and produce outcomes; the supplied text does not report review findings.
Target Population
Not specified in the supplied text; implementation strategies may address patients, oral healthcare providers, and the wider health system.
Care Setting
Oral healthcare settings; the supplied text does not specify particular care settings.
Key Highlights
Teledentistry includes screening, triage, teleconsultation, telediagnosis, tele-expertise, monitoring, prescribing, referrals, and patient education.
Delivery may be synchronous in real time or asynchronous, including store-and-forward systems and mobile health.
Reported barriers include insufficient provider knowledge, limited patient awareness, inadequate training and reimbursement, the digital divide, low digital health literacy, and unclear guidelines and legal frameworks.
The realist review aims to explain what implementation strategies work, for whom, in which contexts, and through what mechanisms.
The supplied article text describes the review rationale and aims but does not provide review findings.
Guideline-Based Recommendations
Diagnosis
Management
Monitoring & Follow-up
Risks
Patient & Prescribing Data
The supplied text does not identify a specific demographic or clinical subgroup.
Teledentistry may be used for screening, triage, consultation, diagnosis, monitoring, prescriptions, referrals, and patient education. The introduction cites reports of reduced waiting periods and expenses and improved patient satisfaction; the supplied text provides no prescribing details.
