A conceptual framework for Oral Rehabilitation Decision Support System
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Dental care and periodontal diseases are considered to be one of the global burdens of diseases. Over the past three decades in India, oral diseases/conditions have reportedly affected almost 600 million people. Despite the scale of these problems, only 12.4% of adults have ever got their oral cavity examined by a dentist according to the draft National Oral Health Policy 2018 notes. Due to the pandemic attack of the corona virus 2019 disease, it has been observed that patients seeking dental treatment were not able to get the services on time by the dental practitioner, which has now caused a huge burden on the Indian health system. Therefore, to evaluate the use of an interactive two-way mobile-based personalised human-centred application for facilitating the delivery of personalised oral care for patients, we designed a conceptual framework for providing oral rehabilitation services for patients. This system is equally important for such cases where it is considered to provide a wide range of treatments to patients, dental aesthetic, awareness, support, health monitoring and online consultations. Such a system will play a vital role in changing a person’s appearance and improving their self-esteem. However, the acceptance of this system will be evaluated using a questionnaire-based Likert-type scale assessing the System Usability Scale testing. With the introduction to the proposed system into practice, the Personalised Human Centred Oral Rehabilitation – Decision Support System can bridge the operational gaps by training healthcare professionals such as dental practitioners, dental technicians, nutritionist, patients, frontline workers (Accredited Social Health Activist and Anganwadi workers) and choosing the right technology platform to avail the dental services post-treatment as a prophylaxis rehabilitation tool. This can also result in improved community health with diversity in Indian settings for remote diagnosis and early management of dental diseases/conditions through electronic communication.
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Keywords: Decision support system, oral rehabilitation, periodontitis, SUS, teledentistry.
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