Design, Implementation and Adoption of an Electronic Dental Record Within an Electronic Health Record in the Public Healthcare System of Buenos Aires City.

This paper describes the development and implementation of a Dental Record within an Electronic Health Record in the public Primary Health Care network of Buenos Aires City. In the five months of implementation, the adoption was progressively increasing but with a great deal of variability among the health facilities. Pediatric population was the most common assisted and the most frequent oral health problem was caries.