Bakhshaei Anahita, Ramachandran Swathi, Brondani Mario
Oral Health Sciences Department, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Clinical Prevention Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Eur J Dent Educ. 2024 May;28(2):631-644. doi: 10.1111/eje.12990. Epub 2024 Jan 27.
Despite teledentistry (TD) ubiquitous utilization, it has yet to be fully adopted by oral health care providers' educational training. This study aimed to explore TD incorporation in the training of oral health care providers.
This review included studies on the TD content offered to oral health care providers. The JBI (Joanna Briggs Institute) methodology was used, and two reviewers screened the literature. Studies published between 1989 and 4 June 2022 were searched using "Teledentistry" and "Education" as initial keywords. The searched databases included MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, EPPI, Scopus, Epistemonikos, ERIC, MedEdPORTAL, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, and Google Scholar. All of the relevant literature, regardless of their language, were added. The data were extracted using an extraction table and are presented in tabular and narrative summary formats.
A total of 2180 documents were found, and 1804 documents were screened by the title and abstract after deduplication; 59 were selected for full-text review; and 19 were eligible for data extraction. Of all studies, 63.15% were published after the COVID-19 pandemic. Practicing TD and TD reimbursement were some of the addressed topics. Didactic education and hands-on practice were the most employed training methods. Self/peer evaluations and surveys were among the employed assessment techniques.
TD education has been emphasized during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a variation in the existing TD educational programmes, from addressing topics to assessment techniques. However, the number of educational programmes on this topic is sparse.
尽管远程牙科（TD）已被广泛应用，但口腔医疗服务提供者的教育培训尚未完全采用它。本研究旨在探讨将远程牙科纳入口腔医疗服务提供者的培训中。
本综述纳入了提供给口腔医疗服务提供者的远程牙科内容的研究。采用了JBI（乔安娜·布里格斯研究所）方法，两名评审员对文献进行筛选。以“远程牙科”和“教育”作为初始关键词，检索了1989年至2022年6月4日发表的研究。检索的数据库包括MEDLINE、Cochrane图书馆、CINAHL、EPPI、Scopus、Epistemonikos、ERIC、MedEdPORTAL、ProQuest学位论文与全球博硕士论文数据库以及谷歌学术。所有相关文献，无论其语言如何，均被纳入。使用提取表提取数据，并以表格和叙述性总结形式呈现。
共找到2180篇文献，去重后通过标题和摘要筛选出18,04篇文献；59篇被选进行全文审查；19篇符合数据提取条件。在所有研究中，63.15%是在新冠疫情之后发表的。实践远程牙科和远程牙科报销是其中一些涉及的主题。理论教育和实践操作是最常用的培训方法。自我/同行评估和调查是所采用的评估技术之一。
在新冠疫情期间，远程牙科教育得到了重视。现有的远程牙科教育项目在主题内容到评估技术方面存在差异。然而，关于这个主题的教育项目数量稀少。
