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Volume 3 Issue 4 (October - December, 2015)

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ROLE OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS IN DENTISTRY
Riddhi Badamia, Lomesh Popat

Biomedical informatics is a medical practice that is applied in dentistry to enhance operations. Dentistry is a complex medical field that requires utmost precision and care for purposes of delivering quality services to patients. As such, the use of biomedical informatics enables doctors to make perfect decisions regarding the modes of treatment able to solve patient’s complications. Dentistry is one such field that relies on this mode of scientific intervention for purposes of improving and taking care of patient’s dental health. Most of the operations undertaken by biomedical informatics deal with complicated issues that cannot be easily handled using the formal methods of data collection. Operations in biomedical involve handling cases that require meaning, hence making the meaning identification more difficult. The use of computerized methods of information is not a new aspect in the medical idea. Computers and other technological materials have been introduced to generate and enhance good ideas by medical practitioners. The biggest agenda is to ascertain that people’s dental health is maintained. Different medical spheres have used biomedical informatics with dentistry being among the leading medical practices. This practice relies on technology as so; computerized operations are a common factor in the dentistry field. This implies that a high technology is applied in dental informatics for purposes of providing healthcare officials with all relevant information regarding a certain ailment. Dental informatics creates a healthy and fast relationship between a doctor and the patients being administered. This is done by increasing the ease with which these doctors’ access patient related information from the technological devices. It facilitates the development of wise decisions that have the capability of helping the patients towards health recovery. Dental informatics creates a forum where doctors can collectively analyze patient data and come up with the most appropriate decisions. This creates an environment where integrity and responsiveness is increased to benefit the patients.

Key words: Electronic data storage, simulation, computational methods, restorative dentistry, virtual learning

 
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