title: [Informatics of dental medicine].
abstract: Dental informatics is a newly developed discinpline which is integrated by modern stomatology, computer sciences and informatics. In this paper, the concept, importance, basic principle and contents were discussed in details. The relationship among dental informatics and related sciences, the formation and history of dental informatics were also described in this paper.
authors.affiliation: College of Stomatology, West China University of Medical Sciences.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D008490:Medical Informatics; D019242:Oral Medicine