A Smart Device for a Preliminary Dental Examination Based on the Internet of Things.
Comput Intell Neurosci
; 2022: 7190751, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2121885
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened the lives of many people, especially the elderly and those with chronic illnesses, as well as threatening the global economy. In response to the pandemic, many medical centers, including dental facilities, have significantly reduced the treatment of patients by limiting clinical practice to exclusively urgent, nondeferred care. Dentists are more vulnerable to contracting COVID-19, due to the necessity of the dentist being close to the patient. One of the precautions that dentists take to avoid transmitting infections is to wear a mask and gloves. However, the basic condition for nontransmission of infection is to leave a safe distance between the patient and the dentist. This system can be implemented by using an Arduino microcontroller, which is designed as a preliminary device by a dentist to examine a patient's teeth so that a safe distance of three meters between the dentist and the patient can be maintained. The project is based on hardware and has been programmed through Arduino. The proposed system uses a small wired camera with a length of five meters that is connected to the dentist's mobile or laptop and is installed on a robotic arm. The dentist can control the movement of the arm in all directions using a joystick at a distance of three meters. The results showed the effectiveness of this system for leaving a safe distance between the patient and the dentist. In our future work, we will control the movement of the arm via Bluetooth, and we will use a wi-fi-based camera.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Internet of Things
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Comput Intell Neurosci
Journal subject:
Medical Informatics
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Neurology
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
2022
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