Digital Dentistry (eBook)

This book focuses on recent technological advances in digital dentistry. It provides information on digital aspects in all dental fields including digital caries detection systems, digital color matching, and digital applications in periodontology, surgical implant placement, oral histopathology and pediatric dentistry.

Training in emerging and new digital techniques is inevitable in the dental profession. This book contains detailed digital procedures, their basics and their applications. It is divided into three parts: Basic Digital Systems in Dentistry, Novelties and Advances in Digital Dentistry, The Future of Digital Dentistry and Applications. Readers will learn about Artificial Intelligence in dentistry, tissue engineering applications and dental education tools in digital dentistry. The book is a must have for all dental practitioners who would like to deepen their knowledge and understanding of digital systems in dentistry.

Antigoni Delantoni, DDS, MSc, PhD, MD is an assistant Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she serves as faculty. She is agraduate of the Aristotle University, School of Dentistry, Thessaloniki, Greece (1998). Her post degree training includes a 2-yr internship in Oral Radiology (University of British Columbia 2002) from where she got the MSc title in Oral Radiology and Diagnostics and a 2-yr continuing education program in oral implantology (Greek German Dental Association, 2009). In addition, she has completed a doctoral degree (Aristotle University School of Dentistry, Thessaloniki, Greece 2007) and has graduated from medical school (Aristotle University School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece (2008) . She has also finished a postdoctoral research degree with a full scholarship by the Greek State Scholarships foundation (2009) .
She is a member of the editorial board of several journals in her field and a reviewer for over 40 international journals including TripleO, Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Rheumatology, The Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal, Head & Face Medicine, Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, International Journal of Clinical Dentistry.
She has published numerous papers and books in Greek and English and has spoken in a large number of congresses nationally and internationally covering a variety of topics with main focus on oral radiology and maxillofacial imaging.
Her main research interests are new imaging methods and digital imaging in dentistry. Also imaging techniques such as CT, CBCT, MRI, ultrasound (USG),in the fields of head and neck radiology, and Dentomaxillofacial Radiology.

Kaan Orhan, PhD MSc MHM DDS BA Dr Hc, is a Professor of DentoMaxilloFacial Radiology at the Faculty of Dentistry, and a board member of   Medical Design Application and Research Center (MEDITAM) at Ankara University, Turkey, and a visiting Professor at the Facultyof Medical Dentistry at the Medical University of Lublin, Poland and a visiting Professor at the Semmelweis University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral Diagnostics Budapest, Hungary

 Dr. Orhan received his degree in 1998 and completed his Ph.D. and specialization in Maxillofacial Radiology in 2002 at Osaka University, Japan, and Ankara University, Turkey. He was a maxillofacial consultant and lecturer at Ankara University from 2004 to 2006, and then became an Associate Professor in 2006 and a Full Professor in 2012. He was the founder and, from 2007 to 2010, the chairman of the Dentomaxillofacial Radiology Department, Near East University, Cyprus.

 He served as chairman of the Research and Scientific Committee, European Academy of DentoMaxillofacial Radiology from 2008 to 2012, and later as Vice-President (2012-2014) and President.

Recently he was chosen as president-elect (2023-2025) and president (2025-2027) for International Association of DentoMaxillofacial Radiology (IADMFR).

He is a fellow of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), Japanese Board of DentoMaxillofacial Radiology, European Head and Neck Radiology Society (ESHNR), European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESRMB), International Association of Dento-Maxillo-Facial Radiology, and Medical Ultrasonography Society. He also served as a Board Member of the Specialization Committee in the Ministry of Health and promoted the recognition of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology as a specialization in Turkey.

Dr. Orhan is the editor of several journals, including 'BMC Medical Imaging', 'BMC Oral Health' 'Oral Radiology' and 'Scanning', and a reviewer for more than 50 different journals in his field. He has written or co-authored more than ten books in English and Turkish as well as over 450 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals, and received over 6500 citations from his studies with an h-index of 47. His research interests include CT, CBCT, MRI, ultrasound (USG), head and neck radiology, and Dentomaxillofacial Radiology.