Dental Apps for Smartphones: New Way of Providing Services and Education

摘要

>Objective: style="font-family:Verdana;"> To review the literature about dental applications (DAPP) for smartphones (SP) and style="font-family:Verdana;"> style="font-family:Verdana;">search/describe DAPP style="font-family:Verdana;"> style="font-family:Verdana;">available in Portuguese, in 3 style="font-family:Verdana;"> style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:Verdana;">operating systems. style="font-family:Verdana;">Methods: style="font-family:Verdana;"> Aiming the review, the terms “smartphones”, “app” and “dentistry” were searched in the databases style="font-family:Verdana;"> style="font-family:Verdana;">Pubmed, Virtual Health Library (BVS) and Google Scholar. style="font-family:Verdana;"> style="font-family:Verdana;">Based on the review results, DAPP style="font-family:Verdana;"> style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:Verdana;">were searched for teaching and learning (TL), clinical practice (CP), patient orientation (PO) and professional update (PU), in Portuguese, in the Android, iOS and Windows systems. In 3 SP (iPhone 5S with iOS 9.3.5; Samsung Galaxy A5 6 2016 with Android; Microsoft-RM-1109 with Windows Phone 8.1 Update2) the term “dentistry” was inserted in APP searches. style="font-family:Verdana;">Results: style="font-family:Verdana;">Forty-three papers were included in the review and 215 DAPP were selected: 120 on Android, 90 on iOS, and 5 on Windows. DAPP style="font-family:Verdana;"> style="font-family:Verdana;">were classified according to the focus in: CP (n = 99); PO (n = 6); CP/PO (n = 64); TL/CP (n = 6); TL (n = 38); TL/CP/PO (n = 1) And PU and TL (n = 1). The majority of the DAPP was not validated by any Dental institution (93.02%) and was no style="font-family:Verdana;"> style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:Verdana;">cost way for users (81.86%), although only 58.14 were updated. style="font-family:Verdana;">Conclusion: style="font-family:Verdana;"> Most of the papers showed as main focus CP, TL and PO. style="font-family:Verdana;"> style="font-family:Verdana;">The DAPP available in Portuguese for Dentistry were mostly developed for clinical practice, with a lack of those for patient orientation and teaching and learning. Future Dental APP should provide evidence-based, validated, updated data.