The digital evolution reached our clinic several years ago, and the use of digital technologies is now an everyday reality in the care of our patients. It has truly transformed our approach to clinical work, thanks to software and hardware dedicated to dentistry that allow us to analyse our patients’ problems in a level of detail that was unthinkable until a few years ago, and to offer increasingly individual and personalised treatments, bringing dentistry closer to the ideal of precision medicine.
The time is not far off when innovative algorithms and artificial intelligence, which we are working on, will be able to analyse big data and help us design ever more precise and effective care and treatment programmes for our patients. All this without ever losing sight of the human side of our relationship with patients, who will be more involved in the diagnostic and treatment process and able to follow their trusted dentist’s work step by step, thanks to how remarkably quickly and easily information and clinical data can be collected and shared in real time, always with full respect for their privacy.
The main aim of involving patients directly in diagnosis and treatment is to help them understand their dental problems as fully as possible, so that they can contribute to their own care by adopting good habits and embracing healthier lifestyles, with clear benefits for both their oral health and their general wellbeing.
COBE Digital Dental Therapy therefore allows us to improve our clinical work while strengthening the therapeutic alliance with our patients because, as Henry Ford said, “there is true progress only when the advantages of a new technology become available to everyone.”
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