title: Dental Informatics in India: Time to Embrace the Change.
abstract: Dental informatics is comparatively a juvenile and new field that has noteworthy potential for supporting clinical care, research, education and management. This field utilizes computer science, information sciences and the application of same to espouse dentistry. However, in the under-developed and developing countries almost most of the dentists are unacquainted about dental informatics, its goals, what it is capable of achieving and by what means they can get involved into it. Despite of emerging advances, certain conflicts also go along with it such as, professional under representation, security issues of the stored information due to universal access to computers high speed internet connections. Endnote software was used as resource material to collect literature which was carefully arranged in a synchronized way. Hence, the purpose of this review was to give an overall scenario of dental informatics, its applications, challenges and recommendations for further enhancement in this area.
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital , Narnadi, Boranada, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India .
authors.forename: Kumar Gaurav
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Chhabra
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Al-Ameen Dental College and Hospital , Bijapur, Karnataka, India .
authors.forename: Salma H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Mulla
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sharad Panwar Dental College and Hospital , Sawangi, Meghe, Wardha, Maharasthra, India .
authors.forename: Shravani Govind
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Deolia
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital , Narnadi, Boranada, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India .
authors.forename: Chaya
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chhabra
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Prosthodontics and Implantology, Pacific Dental College and research centre , Udaipur, Rajasthan, India .
authors.forename: Jagjeet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Rama Dental College, Hospital & Research Centre , Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India .
authors.forename: Baldeep Singh
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Marwaha
keywords: Bioinformatics; Dental care; Dental education; Information systems