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Advances in Dental Research® provides a forum for detailed exploration and timely
discussion of significant research developments in the sciences relevant to dentistry
and to the chemistry, biology, and function of the oral cavity in health and in disease.
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A Preliminary Analysis of the Dental Informatics Literature
Adv Dent Res 17:20-24, December, 2003
by T.K. Schleyer, P. Corby, and A.L. Gregg
Dental informatics is an emerging discipline applying computer and information science to
dental practice, research, education, and management. To date, the dental informatics
research literature has not been comprehensively reviewed. This study reports an initial
analysis of the dental informatics literature. We developed an initial, comprehensive
retrieval strategy to locate dental informatics citations in MEDLINE (1966–April 2003),
including three concepts: dentistry, computers, and research. After refinement of the search,
we manually classified the final set into four categories: (1) non-dental; (2) dental,
but neither dental informatics nor IT-related; (3) dental informatics; and (4)
IT in dentistry. We analyzed informatics and IT-related citations regarding their
distribution across journals, growth rate, the number of authors and their publication
frequency, and content as expressed by Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The final set
of citations (n = 3872) consisted of: 12% non-dental articles; 59% dental, but not
informatics- or IT-related articles; 16% informatics-related articles; and 13%
IT-related articles. Informatics-related citations appeared in 176 journals,
and IT-related citations in 206 journals. Approximately 50 papers are
currently published in both categories yearly. While a great many authors have
contributed to this literature, very few have published more than three papers.
Main topics of articles included "Imaging and Image Processing",
"Computer-aided Diagnosis and Therapy", "Computer-aided Instruction",
and "Other". The dental informatics literature is small, but growing.
Imaging and image processing predominate as research topics
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