Through teledentistry, we can offer effective preventative services. We can help prevent disease without the patient having to physically visit the office. If they need surgical services, then they can come to the office. Teledentistry, in my mind, is a really, really important part of the future.

TeleDent allows a prescriptive way for hygienists and assistants to intake patients, do the assessments, take the proper radiographs, take the proper digital photographs, and have those sent to the remote dentist who can then do their exam asynchronously.

Teledentistry and mobile dentistry go hand in hand. It's essential for us to use teledentistry in order for our hygienist to be able to provide services more cost-effectively. It allows our providers to see what's going on in our patients' mouths before we send them out to provide the services.

I use TeleDent to communicate with other specialists to have conversations with patients, and create an integrated patient care point. That's key because specialists and dentists communicating together only helps the patient.

We've incorporated teledentistry [TeleDent] and intraoral cameras into our dental student curriculum for 380 students. For us, it was really important to get new technologies into this curriculum so that students were exposed to it, they were aware of it, and when they go out into their professional practice, they know when someone approaches them, or they're ready to start up a new program.