The Impact of Technology on Teaching and Clinical Practice in Dentistry

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Dental education is experiencing a considerable transformation across emerging technologies. This chapter presents a narrative review around the impact of virtual simulators, teledentistry, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality on dental training. It was analyzed 17 articles published between 2020 and 2024 in PubMed, SciELO, and Google Scholar. The results revealed that simulators offer safe practice environments, teledentistry facilitates remote care and 3D printing with AI enhances personalized prosthetics and diagnosis. In addition, virtual and augmented reality are bringing the surgical precision to new levels. While there are still hurdles to overcome, such as figuring out how to weave these technologies into the curriculum, training the faculty, protecting data, and making sure everyone has equal access. This overview illustrates an immense progress and challenges in the digital transformation of dental education.

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