Technological innovations in dentistry

Abstract

The digital or information age began in the mid- 1970s and since then the pace of technology has increased rapidly, revolutionizing the way we communicate, interact, live and work. Technology has a major impact on dentistry and will bring substantial changes in teaching, research, and patient care. Among the changes in teaching methods are innovations in clinical simulation and e-learning, which have gradually replaced the use of 2D images available in textbooks with 3D models, specifically in the study of human anatomy because they can reliably recreate the anatomical details of bones, thus evaluating the usefulness of these models in the practical study of anatomy.1