Abstract
This article looks at what challenges and opportunities will arise in the future for oral surgery.
CPD/Clinical Relevance: Knowledge of challenges and opportunities in oral surgery is essential for good clinical practice.
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Oral surgery: what challenges and opportunities are there on the horizon?
From Volume 50, Issue 5, May 2023 | Pages 422-430
Article
This article takes a look at what challenges and opportunities will arise for oral surgery in the future.
There are predicted systems advances that will impact on healthcare delivery broadly, and advances that will have specialty-specific impact. There will also be challenges, which may include patient factors, such as the ageing population with increasing medical complexities, pressure on healthcare delivery and patient safety. Opportunities may arise with improved technical advances impacting on all aspects of care.
A recent report suggests that adopting new technology is crucial to surgeons’ training.1 However, before salivating over potential new technology, we need to think about the human quotient of surgery. Surgeons bear huge responsibilities: with one operation, they might bring about benefit or cause irreparable damage. Many digital technologies are impacting on operating rooms and surgeons, but we must regard these new surgical technologies as an extension of the capabilities of surgeons and their teams, rather than replacing them.
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