Journal of Advances in Education Research

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DOI: 10.22606/jaer.2021.63001

• Britz, Vanessa;
  Frankfurt Interdisciplinary Simulation Center FIneST, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany; Frankfurt Reference Centre for Rare Disease, University Hospital, Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• Sterz, Jasmina;
  Frankfurt Interdisciplinary Simulation Center FIneST, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany; Department for Trauma-, Hand- and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• Ruesseler, Miriam;^*
  Frankfurt Interdisciplinary Simulation Center FIneST, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany; Department for Trauma-, Hand- and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• Thoenissen, Phillip;
  Department of Oral, Cranio-Maxillofacial, and Facial Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• Sader, Robert;
  Department of Oral, Cranio-Maxillofacial, and Facial Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• Seifert, Lukas Benedikt
  Department of Oral, Cranio-Maxillofacial, and Facial Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Due to the coronavirus pandemia, dental schools are facing a change onto virtual solutions. Teledentistry has proven to be an opportunity to bridge this gap. This study aims to assess the feasibility and acceptance of a virtual dental examination. It took place during the final maxillofacial examination. Study participants were dental students and real inpatients. A video-call-software was used to carry out the examination. To assess the acceptance participants filled out a questionnaire afterwards. 22 patients answered the questionnaire. They didn’t ‘feel inhibited’ and had no ‘difficulties developing a relationship with the student’. 28 students answered the questionnaire. They found the conversation at eye level but expressed more inhibitions than the patients in a virtual setting, still finding themselves able to have an adequate doctor-patient conversation. Telemedicine seems well accepted on patients’ and students’ side, offering a safe alternative to enable students to maintain dental teaching in a pandemic situation.

dental examination; teledentistry; virtual examination; Covid-19; undergraduate education.

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