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Strategies for Promoting Teledentistry Adoption in Dental Care: A Realist Review

  • By

  • Krithika Priyadharshini Arunagiri

  • Paul Allison

  • Shashank Kannan

  • Pascaline Kengne Talla

  • October 8, 2026

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Objective:

To investigate how implementation strategies interact with context and mechanisms to shape teledentistry implementation outcomes, including what works, for whom, under which circumstances, and why.

Approach:
  • Design: The study used a realist review to investigate how context and mechanisms interact to produce implementation outcomes.
  • Framework: The review followed Pawson and Tilley’s five-stage realist review framework. Its protocol was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42024566372) and published in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
Interpretation:

The study aims to clarify how contextual conditions and mechanisms shape the outcomes of strategies used to support teledentistry implementation.

Limitations:
  • The provided article context ends during the Methods section and contains no results or study limitations.

Original Source(s)

Implementation strategies to enhance teledentistry adoption in dental care settings: A realist review

  • by Krithika Priyadharshini Arunagiri, Paul Allison, Shashank Kannan, Pascaline Kengne Talla

  • October 8, 2026

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