Launching a public statewide tele(oral)medicine service in Brazil during COVID‐19 pandemic

Meurer, Maria Inês; Wangenheim, Aldo von; Zimmermann, Caroline; Savaris, Alexandre; Petrolini, Vinícius Andreóli; Wagner, Harley Miguel

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“…Included studies were conducted in Brazil [ 30 – 32 ], England [ 33 ], Hong Kong [ 34 ], Italy [ 35 , 36 ], India [ 37 ], Saudi Arabia [ 4 ], and USA [ 38 , 39 ], all published in English.…”

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“…Seven references were letters to the editor/editorials [ 4 , 30 – 33 , 36 , 37 ], and four were case reports [ 34 , 35 , 38 , 39 ] evaluating the application of remote technologies in the follow-up and monitoring of patients with oral cancer and head and neck cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. The emphasis was on the mitigation of the evolution, severity, and complexity of the disease in the face of restrictions that the pandemic imposed on health systems.…”

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“…In a study [ 30 ] conducted in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the authors used TD models to increase the coverage of oral oncology services. The Santa Catarina State Integrated Telemedicine and Telehealth System (STT/SC) serves 100% of the municipalities, and it integrates primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare facilities in a single infrastructure.…”

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“…None of the studies [ 4 , 30 – 33 , 36 , 37 ] assessed by the text and opinion checklist showed any inconsistency with the logically defended literature/sources.…”

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The role of teledentistry in oral cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrative literature review

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Objectives This integrative review aimed to assess the benefits of the use of teledentistry for patients undergoing treatment of oral and head and neck cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and methods We searched in PubMed, Cochrane, Scopus, Web of Science, Lilacs, Embase, Open Grey, Google Scholar, and Jstor databases for studies referring to the management, control, and assistance, through teledentistry, to patients with oral and head and neck cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results We found 356 references in the databases, 209 after duplicates removal, 23 met criteria for full-text reading, and 11 studies were included for qualitative synthesis, in four categories: virtual visits, use of remote technology, patient’s satisfaction, multidisciplinary approach in teledentistry. We found that 78% of patients currently preferred teledentistry; 92% of patients would recommend the use of video consultation to other patients. The continuity of dental care, the reduction of patient visits to the hospital, the reduction of the risk of infection with the coronavirus, and limitation of face-to-face consultations to protect health professionals are benefits that reinforce the use of teledentistry by health institutions. Two studies showed patients’ satisfaction with the use of teledentistry in monitoring cancer patients and showed an improvement in quality of life. Conclusions The teledentistry, as a remote technology for monitoring patients with oral and head and neck cancer, is well accepted by patients in preliminary studies. Although these studies pointed out some benefits of using remote technologies for the care of cancer patients, further robust scientific evidence is still needed in this regard. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00520-021-06398-0.

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“…None of the studies [ 4 , 30 – 33 , 36 , 37 ] assessed by the text and opinion checklist showed any inconsistency with the logically defended literature/sources.…”

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The role of teledentistry in oral cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrative literature review

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“…As an oral medicine specialist and a member of the team that has developed and recently launched a tele(oral) medicine service linked to the Brazilian Unified Public Health System ( Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS) in the state of Santa Catarina ( 2 ), I would like to share some concerns about the use of non-dedicated platforms/softwares/applications for the exchange of health data.…”

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Computing systems, telehealth, and personal data: what is up?

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Segmentation, Detection, and Classification of Cell Nuclei on Oral Cytology Samples Stained with Papanicolaou

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Although oral cancer is considered a global health issue with 350,000 people diagnosed over a year, it can successfully be treated if diagnosed at early stages. Papanicolaou is an inexpensive and non-invasive method, generally applied to detect cervical cancer, but it can also be useful to detect cancer on oral cavities. The manual process of analyzing cells to detect abnormalities is a time-consuming cell analysis and is subject to variations in perceptions from different professionals. This paper compares three different deep learning (DL) approaches: segmentation, object detection, and image classification. Our results show that the binary object detection with Faster R-CNN is the best approach for nuclei detection and localization (0.76 IoU). Since ResNet 34 had a good performance on abnormal nuclei classification (0.86 F 1 score), we concluded that these two models can be used in combination to perform a reliable localization and classification pipeline. This work reinforces that the automated analysis of oral cytology to build a pipeline for nuclei classification and localization using DL can contribute to minimize the subjectivity of the human analysis and also support the detection of cancer at early stages.

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Launching a public statewide tele(oral)medicine service in Brazil during COVID‐19 pandemic

Abstract: The letter to the editor published by Villa, Sankar, and Shiboski (2020) encouraged us to also share our tele(oral)medicine model, proposed for the State of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and recently launched due to

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The role of teledentistry in oral cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrative literature review

The role of teledentistry in oral cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrative literature review

Computing systems, telehealth, and personal data: what is up?

Segmentation, Detection, and Classification of Cell Nuclei on Oral Cytology Samples Stained with Papanicolaou

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