Table 2.
Participants attitude toward application of teledentistry.
| Item | Category | n (%) | Used tele-dentistry |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes n = 74 (50.0%) |
No n = 74 (50.0%) |
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| Do you have a computer/laptop in your dental office/practice? | Yes | 134 (90.5%) | 66 (49.3%) | 68 (50.7%) | 0.574 |
| No | 14 (9.5%) | 8 (57.1%) | 6 (42.9%) | ||
| Are you the main computer user? | Yes | 55 (41.0%) | 31 (56.4%) | 24 (43.6%) | 0.170 |
| No | 79 (59.0%) | 35 (44.3%) | 44 (55.7%) | ||
| Do you use as an electronic medical record? | Yes | 97 (72.4%) | 50 (51.5%) | 47 (48.5%) | 0.390 |
| No | 37 (27.6%) | 16 (43.2%) | 21 (56.8%) | ||
| Do patient's radiographs get uploaded/linked to the electronic record you use? | Yes | 110 (82.1%) | 57 (51.8%) | 53 (48.2%) | 0.204 |
| No | 24 (17.9%) | 9 (37.5%) | 15 (62.5%) | ||
| Do patient's clinical image get uploaded/linked to the electronic record? | Yes | 78 (58.2%) | 40 (51.3%) | 38 (48.7%) | 0.579 |
| No | 56 (41.8%) | 26 (46.4%) | 30 (53.6%) | ||
| Do you have an email? | Yes, personal | 44 (29.7%) | 22 (50.0%) | 22 (50.0%) | 0.014 |
| Yes, professional | 17 (11.5%) | 3 (17.6%) | 14 (82.4%) | ||
| Yes, personal and professional | 87 (58.8%) | 49 (56.3%) | 38 (43.7%) | ||
| How do you access the email? check all that applies | Desktop | 66 (44.6%) | 39 (59.1%) | 27 (40.9%) | 0.047 |
| Laptop | 90 (60.8%) | 54 (60.0%) | 36 (40.0%) | 0.002 | |
| Tablet | 22 (14.9%) | 13 (59.1%) | 9 (40.9%) | 0.355 | |
| Smart phone | 116 (78.4%) | 67 (57.8%) | 49 (42.2%) | <0.001 | |
| How often do you use your email? | Daily | 114 (77.0%) | 65 (57.0%) | 49 (43.0%) | 0.002 |
| Weekly | 34 (23.0%) | 9 (26.5%) | 25 (73.5%) | ||
| In a typical day, about how many emails do you send? | 0–10 | 132 (89.5%) | 70 (53.0%) | 62 (47.0%) | 0.034 |
| >10 | 16 (10.8%) | 4 (25.0%) | 12 (75.0%) | ||
| Do you send clinical images of patients by email? | Yes | 41 (27.7%) | 21 (51.2%) | 20 (48.8%) | 0.854 |
| No | 107 (72.3%) | 53 (49.5%) | 54 (50.5%) | ||
| Do you have a smart phone | Yes | 135 (91.2%) | 72 (53.3%) | 63 (46.7%) | 0.009 |
| No | 13 (8.8%) | 2 (15.4%) | 11 (84.6%) | ||
| Do you use your smart phone in patient related matters? | Yes | 107 (79.3%) | 64 (59.8%) | 43 (40.2%) | 0.003 |
| No | 28 (20.7%) | 8 (28.6%) | 20 (71.4%) | ||
| Do you take patients clinical images with your smart phone? | Yes | 84 (62.2%) | 49 (58.3%) | 35 (41.7%) | 0.135 |
| No | 51 (37.8%) | 23 (45.1%) | 28 (54.9%) | ||
| Do you send clinical images through smart phone applications to colleagues for consultations? | Yes | 97 (71.9%) | 60 (61.9%) | 37 (38.1%) | 0.002 |
| No | 38 (28.1%) | 12 (31.6%) | 26 (68.4%) | ||
| Do you know what teledentistry means? | Yes | 42 (28.4%) | 42 (100%) | 0 (0%) | <0.001 |
| No | 106 (71.6%) | 32 (30.2%) | 74 (69.8%) | ||