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Development of Teledentistry: From Pilot Projects to Successful Implementation

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As of telemedecine initiatives, teledentistry innovations have great potentials to enhance accessibility to dental care, reduce cost of care and enhance quality of dental care. Despite such potentials, many teledentistry innovations remain in the pilot phase or are not successfully implemented. To explain this paradoxe, we discuss the adoption, and the implementation of teledentistry in regular healthcare practices and the evaluation of the success of teledentitry projetc. We propose to identify the main critical factors for teledentistery initiatives.

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    Isabelle Bourdon, Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei & Chris Kimble

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Bourdon, I., Ologeanu-Taddei, R., Kimble, C. (2018). Development of Teledentistry: From Pilot Projects to Successful Implementation. In: Giraudeau, N. (eds) e-Health Care in Dentistry and Oral Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69450-4_3

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