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Technological aspects of dental education: will we still be reading a paper journal in 50 years?

From Volume 50, Issue 5, May 2023 | Pages 345-348

Authors

Damien A Walmsley

School of Dentistry, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham

Articles by Damien A Walmsley

Email Damien A Walmsley

Marco Antonio Dias da Silva

Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande Marie Curie; Postdoc Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

Articles by Marco Antonio Dias da Silva

Abstract

Change has become the norm and with the digital revolution we are seeing the demise of the printed word. Dentistry is a pictorial subject, but will pictures in a textbook or journal be surpassed by accessing digital ones on a screen? This article reviews the rapidly changing access and reading of dental publications. An argument is that the ease of access to electronic material, such as video and podcasts, may make traditional paper-based publications obsolete. Already dentistry is seeing such changes take place. With such revolutions come challenges. Misinformation is much easier to generate, and the evidence base may be diluted. Furthermore artificial intelligence is now able to produce text and papers that will make it more difficult to critically review the dental content on offer. The future will bring many challenges and this article provides an opinion on what dentistry might expect.

CPD/Clinical Relevance: There are challenges posed by the increasing use of digital resources for information and how this might impact dental knowledge.

Article

The pace of technological change is relentless and how future innovations will impact our way of life is impossible to predict. In 1989, the World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and subsequently opened to the public in 1991.1Dental Update wrote a series of articles on the WWW called ‘Walmsley’s Web Watch’ in 2000 and featured Google,2 which had started 2 years earlier, as one of the sites described in the articles. YouTube, an internet video channel, started life in 2005. Podcasting was also beginning to be used3 and has now become firmly established as a method of discussing topics in dentistry. Meanwhile, the first iPhone was announced by Steve Jobs in 2007.4 Zoom came of age during the pandemic in 2020, and made teleconferencing acceptable.5 The list is endless, and many more technological innovations have taken place since Windows 3.1, launched in 1992, made the multimedia interface so easy to use.6

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