Publications by authors named "Stuart Bunt"
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to evaluate the potential benefits of using teledentistry for screening low-risk schoolchildren compared to traditional visual examinations to improve resource allocation.
- It reveals that high socio-economic areas are disproportionately consuming dental resources, suggesting that shifting to teledentistry could save $40 million annually, allowing for better access and quality of care for at-risk children.
- The findings emphasize the need for targeted resource allocation to reduce dental health inequalities and inform policymakers about optimizing dental service distribution.
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- The study aimed to compare the costs between teledentistry and traditional dental screenings for school children in Australia.
- A cost-minimisation analysis revealed that teledentistry can save a total of $85 million annually by reducing staff salaries, travel, and supply expenses.
- The findings indicate that teledentistry not only cuts costs but also allows potential reinvestment to improve oral health services, especially in rural or underserved communities.
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- * Out of 385 identified publications, only 11 studies met the criteria for inclusion, revealing that most focused on clinical efficacy, particularly in areas like paediatric dentistry and orthodontics, while few addressed economic impacts.
- * Although there is promising evidence for teledentistry's efficacy, there's insufficient conclusive data on its overall effectiveness and cost-effectiveness to support solid policy decisions at this time.
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- - Oral care services are scarce in rural areas, leading underserved individuals to seek dental help from non-dental providers, pushing the interest in telemedicine for oral health.
- - While there’s a lack of strong evidence about the cost-effectiveness of telemedicine, it’s shown to reduce healthcare inequalities, especially in rural-urban settings, like Australia.
- - Successful teledentistry requires overcoming various challenges at individual, infrastructure, and organizational levels, and addressing these barriers can help promote its acceptance and utility in the healthcare system.
Diagnostic accuracy of teledentistry in the detection of dental caries: a systematic review.
J Evid Based Dent Pract
September 2016
Article Synopsis
- * Out of 287 citations, only 10 studies met the inclusion criteria, showing that while teledentistry can perform comparably to non-telemedicine alternatives, the overall methodological quality of these studies was low with concerns about their design.
- * The findings suggest teledentistry is viable for detecting dental caries, but the diverse quality of studies limits the ability to generalize results; more robust research is needed to fully understand the effectiveness of teledentistry in this field.
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of using a smartphone camera for remote screening of dental caries through a mobile teledentistry approach.
- - It involved 100 participants who had their dental images captured via an Android app and sent to a telemedicine server, where off-site dentists evaluated them compared to traditional face-to-face assessments.
- - Results showed moderate sensitivity (60-63%) for detecting caries with the smartphone method, indicating it could serve as a cost-effective and reliable screening tool in the dental field despite some limitations.
In this report we review the range of teaching resources and strategies used in anatomy education with the aim of coming up with suggestions about the best teaching practices in this area. There is much debate about suitable methods of delivering anatomical knowledge. Competent clinicians, particularly surgeons, need a deep understanding of anatomy for safe clinical procedures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective This study aimed to evaluate users' acceptance of a teledentistry model utilizing a smartphone camera used for dental caries screening and to identify a number of areas for improvement of the system. Methods A store-and-forward telemedicine platform "Remote-I" was developed to assist in the screening of oral diseases using an image acquisition Android app operated by 17 teledental assistants. A total of 485 images (five images per case) were directly transmitted from the Android app to the server.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is possible to improve neuronavigation during image-guided surgery by warping the high-quality preoperative brain images so that they correspond with the current intraoperative configuration of the brain. In this paper, the accuracy of registration results obtained using comprehensive biomechanical models is compared with the accuracy of rigid registration, the technology currently available to patients. This comparison allows investigation into whether biomechanical modeling provides good-quality image data for neuronavigation for a larger proportion of patients than rigid registration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKnowledge of the mechanical properties of the brain-skull interface is important for surgery simulation and injury biomechanics. These properties are known only to a limited extent. In this study we conducted in situ indentation of the sheep brain, and proposed to derive the macroscopic mechanical properties of the brain-skull interface from the results of these experiments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLocal retention of soluble antigen by potential antigen-presenting cells in the anterior segment of the eye.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
December 2003
Purpose: To determine the capacity of bone marrow-derived cells in the anterior segment of the eye to capture a fluorescence-labeled antigen (Ag) injected into the anterior chamber (AC).
Methods: Uveal tract and corneoscleral tissues from Lewis rats were cultured in vitro, with or without FITC-dextran (4 microg/mL final concentration), for 48 hours and examined by confocal microscopy. To investigate antigen uptake in vivo 2 microL (20 microg) of Cascade Blue-labeled dextran (CB-Dx) was injected into the right AC of Lewis rats.
The induction of fibroblast apoptosis and their clearance by phagocytes is essential for normal wound healing and prevention of scarring. However, little is known about the clearance of apoptotic fibroblasts and whether apoptotic cells are active participants in the recruitment and activation of phagocytes. In this study, we provide the first evidence that apoptotic fibroblasts actively release increased amounts of thrombospondin (TSP1) to actively recruit macrophages.
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