The teledentistry conference allows a unique opportunity to deal with several issues including access to underserved populations, manpower shortages, and public education. The conference also allows the merging of these issues with those related to commercialization of new products and technologies including telecommunications technologies, products and technologies needed for delivery of supervised health care, increased professional market share, and allowing services to be delivered at lower costs.
Although teledentistry technology appears ideal to perform this linkage, evidence that demonstrates that teledentistry improves access, reduces cost and affects the quality of care is fragmented and distributed among several federal departments, academic institutions, industry research centers and professional associations.
This symposium will serve as a venue for such topics as the experience of the US Army with teledentistry and a review of new products and procedures suitable for use with teledentistry.
This symposium is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, GC America, GC Asia and GC Corporation, Tokyo Japan.
8:30 - 8:45
Dr. Edward F. Rossomando, Coordinator, New Products and Technologies, NIDCR
Opening Remarks
8:45 - 9:00
Mr. Makoto Nakao, President and CEO GC Corporation
Welcome to the Symposium
9:00 -9:30
Dr. Edward F. Rossomando, Coordinator, New Products and Technologies, NIDCR
Teledentistry and its Potential to Deal with Problems of Oral Health Disparities in the Pacific Rim
9:30 - 10:30
Colonel Robert Vandre, Director, Combat Casualty Care Research, United States Army Medical Research and Materiel
Command
Enhancing Dental Care Through Teledentistry: Results of the US Army Teledentistry Experiment
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:45
Professor Jo Frencken, Rijksweg 86, Malden 6581ER, Netherlands
Atraumatic Restorative Treatment Concepts
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:45
Major Jason Kaar, United States Air Force, JA, Brigade Legal Officer and Assistant Professor, Military and Emergency
Medicine, USUHS
Legal and Risk Management Issues in Teledentistry
1:45 - 2:30
Professor Takehito Sasaki, Department of Oral Maxillofacial Radiology, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental
University
DICOM Standard: Imagings and Communication in Integrated Dental Health Care
2:30 –2:45 Coffee Break
2:45 - 3:30
Dr. Nels Ewoldsen, Director, New Product Development, GC America
Operator/technique Insensitive Therapeutic Restorative Materials
3:30 - 4:15
Dr. J. Tim Rainey, Texas Institute of Advanced Dental Studies, PO Box 1044, Refugio, TX 78377
Selective Abrasion in Cavity Preparation
4:15 – 4:30
Dr. Nels Ewoldsen, Director, New Product Development, GC America
Concluding Remarks
4:30
Adjourn