Fierce Healthcare: Study: Teledentistry effective way to broaden rural access, lower costs

Teledentistry enables rural access to care, lowers costs and helps provide preventive services, a new study has found. 

The CareQuest Institute looked at data for patients in Oregon and Washington. The study included data from more than 60,100 individuals who had a dental visit either in person or through teledentistry in the second half of 2020.

Most (79%) patients with a teledentistry visit had a follow-up visit sometime in 2021, the vast majority of which were in person. Most (60%) had this visit within three weeks of their teledentistry visit, which primarily consisted of diagnostic and restorative services. 

Read the full article.