PREVENTION OF DENTAL DISEASES IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH MEANS IT TECHNOLOGIES

Kotova Marina Alexandrovna

IT technology tools allow dentists to monitor the state of the child’s dental system, evaluate the quality of preventive oral care, analyze the development of teeth and can serve as an addition to face-to-face consultations, which will ultimately lead to an improvement in the quality of pediatric dental care. The advantages of using IT technologies are interactivity and multimedia; accessibility and wide coverage of the population; psychological comfort of the child; saving time and money on travel to the place of full-time consultation with a dentist. Teledentistry is a cost-effective alternative to face-to-face oral examinations for early screening of dental disease in preschool children. However, at present, the use of IT-technologies for the prevention of dental diseases in preschool children in our country is very limited.

Keywords:dental diseases, prevention, children, preschool age, IT-technologies.