How can digital dentistry affect geriatric patient’s treatment?

Abstract

With the developing technologies in recent years, digital dentistry has become quite common. While both conventional techniques and digital dentistry have their own benefits and limitations, still digital technology is superior and going toward future for all specialties in health care field and consequently for elderly patient’s treatment. Content of dental researches, web researches, on-line data bases, discussions of experts and clinicians with the most recent publications and new products releases were collected and evaluated. With rapid aging, the measures surrounding oral health care in the elderly have significantly improved by digital dentistry that bringing new technique system to give opportunity for improving health of geriatric patients as well as opening a new field for future researches. Digital dentistry has an abundance of positive outcomes that make dental treatment for geriatric patients easier, and more efficient.