What does teledentistry mean? Mapping of current definitions
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Access to timely oral healthcare services is paramount for any oral healthcare system, as good oral health contributes to overall quality of life and wellbeing. Despite several initiatives' efforts, there are still persistent deficiencies in accessing oral healthcare. As a result, teledentistry is recognized as a promising and cost-effective intervention to reduce oral health inequalities, enhance patients' outcomes and experiences, improve oral healthcare providers' wellbeing, reduce costs, and contribute to environmental sustainability in dentistry. However, there is confusion in its terminology with many interchangeably used terms referring to this concept. Therefore, based on our research on systematic reviews on teledentistry, we define teledentistry as the use of technology for remote oral healthcare delivery between patients and oral healthcare providers or between healthcare providers. Its goals are to facilitate access to care, reduce oral health inequalities, mitigate the economic impact of oral diseases and treatment, and foster interprofessional collaboration.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it