Research in the Field of Health, Dentistry, Telehealth and Teledentistry G lobal trends in Higher Education points, as guidelines to be pursued, lifelong learning, public accountability and the social dimension of higher education and research.The information and communication technologies (ICT) add a new dimension, influenced by the perception that the current society is globally interconnected, that our knowledge and our vision of the world is transitory, is always incomplete and reprocessing, that we can access continuously and permanently any and all information, and create simulations of the real world .Reflecting the perspective of the information society we can ask what changed after the publication of the Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para a Odontologia (DCN -Brazilian guidelines for undegraduate courses of dentistry and other health professions) in Brazil. Government programs such as Pro-Saúde and PETSaúde, from the Brazilian Ministry of Health in partnership with the Brazilian Ministry of Education, has supported and strengthened the implementation of DCN in the 14 Health Professions.These programs, implemented since 2006, have benefited almost 100,000 undergraduate students in the Health field, approximately 1,000 undergraduate courses and involved health care professionals in more than 1,000 Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS -Brazilian Unified Health System) health services, seeking reorientation training for health professionals, and including the expansion in the use of ICT to strengthen applied research to teaching, guided by clinical and social relevance. Such an approach has added value to practice, producing real experience of the daily work.The use of ICT applied to health, whether in education (distance learning), research, or in health care (telecare), relates to the emergence of Telehealth, Telemedicine, Teledentistry, and puts new elements also for choosing and planning research. To Sigulem (1997) digital health practice refers to the set of techniques, practices, attitudes, and ways of thinking and new values that develop as a result of the growth of the digital space.In the case of telecare, Brazil has a success case with the implementation of the Telessaúde Brasil (www.telessaudebrasil.org.br -Brazilian Telehealth Program), whose results show impacts on the solvability of care, lower costs and continuing education of health professionals. With this program, in addition to establishing protocols for teleconsultation, new concepts and formats aggregation of scientific knowledge and research for easy use by health professionals in service have been developed, such as the Formative Second Opinion.The production of knowledge and the development of research in this area resulted in the creation of a new scientific journal, the Brazilian Journal of Telehealth (www.jbtelessaude.com.br), in which the latest edition highlights the Brazilian experiences in Teledentistry.