Technology in dental care: Oral health by mobile phone
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Innovation in practice: mobile phone technology in patient care.
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly important in everyday life and now in healthcare. There has been a steady growth of information and communication technologies in health communication and technology is used progressively in telemedicine, wireless monitoring of health outcomes in disease and in the delivery of health interventions. Mobile phones are becoming an important method of encoura...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Dental Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0007-0610,1476-5373
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2018.987