Revolutionary Dentistry through Blockchain Technology
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- This paper contributes to the blockchain, dentistry as well as the general healthcare literature via providing a timely and more recent trajectory of blockchain in dentistry, an under-researched but data-rich and rewarding field;
- This paper fills in the research gap of blockchain in dentistry, brings a positive influence on the status of limited research and limited attention to blockchain in dentistry, and increases the awareness of blockchain technology among dental professionals;
- This paper outlines the vision for applying blockchain in dentistry by interpreting the role of blockchain in different dental practice operations so that dental professionals can easily refer to their area of interest;
- This paper identifies and discusses the challenges of implementing blockchain in dentistry and also provides insights on future research directions in the field of blockchain in dentistry.
2. Theoretical Review
2.1. A Brief Description of Blockchain
2.2. Overview of Blockchain in Healthcare
3. Blockchain in Dentistry
3.1. Blockchain in the Dental Office
3.1.1. Patients’ Digital Health Records
3.1.2. Dental Treatment Procedures
3.1.3. Patients’ Physical and Emotional Tolerance, Motivation and Cooperation
3.2. Blockchain in Research and Technology
3.2.1. AI, Blockchain, IoT and Big Data the Converging Technologies
3.2.2. Tele-Dentistry
3.2.3. Research
3.3. Socioeconomics, Finances and Legal Matters
3.3.1. Smart Contracts and Insurance Frauds and Claims
3.3.2. Dental Staff Employment
3.4. Analysing and Applying Data
3.4.1. Pandemic Control
3.4.2. Big Data Analytics
4. Challenges
5. Conclusions and Future Research
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Hassani, H.; Norouzi, K.; Ghodsi, A.; Huang, X. Revolutionary Dentistry through Blockchain Technology. Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2023, 7, 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc7010009
Hassani H, Norouzi K, Ghodsi A, Huang X. Revolutionary Dentistry through Blockchain Technology. Big Data and Cognitive Computing. 2023; 7(1):9. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc7010009
Chicago/Turabian StyleHassani, Hossein, Kimia Norouzi, Alireza Ghodsi, and Xu Huang. 2023. "Revolutionary Dentistry through Blockchain Technology" Big Data and Cognitive Computing 7, no. 1: 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc7010009
APA StyleHassani, H., Norouzi, K., Ghodsi, A., & Huang, X. (2023). Revolutionary Dentistry through Blockchain Technology. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 7(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc7010009