DENTAL DIGEST The FDI World Dental Federation, in collaboration with the International Society of Oral Oncology and with the support of Zendium, has developed a new mobile application called ONCOllab: The Oral Care Guide for Cancer Care Teams. The app is designed to help health care professionals in the cancer care team manage any oral complications that may arise due to cancer therapy. Dr. Deborah Saunders, medical director of dental oncology at the Northeast Cancer Centre in Sudbury, Ontario, was interviewed about ONCOllab on CDA Oasis. She talked about the impact that some cancer therapies can have on dental patients and she demonstrated some of ONCOllab’s key features. The ONCOllab app can also be used as a preventive measure as it has risk calculators that it incorporates for different disease sites. This information can then be printed or emailed to patients to give them further details about their treatment. ONCOllab: An Oral Care Guide for Cancer Care Teams First Visit, First Tooth Program Update ADA Releases Report on AI in Dentistry Due to a steady decline in requests, CDA’s First Visit, First Tooth in-person teaching kit will be discontinued as of April 30. CDA strongly supports that infants are seen by a dentist within 6 months of the eruption of the first tooth or by age 1. For more information about the importance of early dental visits, please visit the CDA website and see our position statements on first visit to the dentist and early childhood caries. The printable First Visit, First Tooth dental office poster will continue to be available for download from the CDA website. A new white paper, published by the American Dental Association (ADA) Standards Committee on Dental Informatics, explores applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Intelligence (AuI) in dentistry. Published in February 2023, the ADA white paper examines the use of AI and AuI in clinical matters such as prevention, caries and periodontal disease, implants, oral and maxillofacial surgery, endodontics, imaging and orthodontics. It also includes discussions on potential non-clinical uses of AI and AuI, including in areas like claims processing, payment integrity and dental practice administration. Watch the interview with Dr. Deborah Saunders on CDA Oasis at: bit.ly/41Q6dTl See: bit.ly/3SXgZmz Download the ADA white paper at: ada.org/ dentalstandards 14 | 2023 | Issue 2
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