Abstract
The rapid advancement of mobile technology has a significant impact on many facets of healthcare, including dentistry. In the realm of digital oral healthcare, mobile health (mHealth) apps designed for mobile devices to deliver health services and information have emerged as transformative tools. Nowadays, these apps are being utilized more and more to support a variety of tasks, including improving communication between patients and providers, assisting with early diagnosis and treatment planning, encouraging oral health education, and enabling remote monitoring via teledentistry platforms. To critically analyze the function of mHealth applications in contemporary dentistry practice, this review synthesizes recent data from academic literature. It draws attention to the ways in which modern technologies enhance dental services’ efficiency and accessibility, especially for underprivileged or remote populations. But in addition to encouraging advancements, the paper discusses a number of restrictions and difficulties related to mHealth integration, including worries about data privacy, a lack of regulatory supervision, technical inequalities, and the requirement for evidence-based validation. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI), interoperability with electronic health records (EHRs), and the creation of customized digital care models are among the new trends and future directions that are examined in this study. This review seeks to advance knowledge of how mobile technology is changing the delivery of oral healthcare and enhancing patient experiences and clinical outcomes by providing a thorough overview of the functional applications, advantages, limitations, and future prospects of mHealth in dentistry.
Keywords: Dentistry, Digital Health, Mobile Health (mHealth), Periodontics, Remote Monitoring