Development of a teledentistry system for the elderly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: 3D diagnostic models integration in a web platform

Objective: To recognize the usefulness of incorporating Three-Dimensional models of standardized humans in electronic health records, in the context of the development of a teledentistry web platform designed for the attention of the elderly population in COVID-19 pandemic context. Material and Methods: A teledentistry web platform designed with different modules for clinical records. Through a new user-computer interface with a standardized virtual 3D phantom, an extraoral physical examination, an intraoral examination section was modeled. A label-associated marker is allowed to record descriptive aspects of the findings. A 3D odontogram represents multiple patient’s conditions for each of the 32 dental positions. Results: From a total of 135 patients registered on the platform, 51 markers and 33 photographs associated with the surface of the virtual 3D phantoms were recorded. For the Location parameter: Hard palate 27.6%, inserted gingiva 15.7%, tongue 15.6%. For the Type of lesion parameter (according to the information entered in the pathology selector): unidentified 35.3%, sub-prosthetic stomatitis 23.5%, irritative fibroma 9.8%. Through the registration of the exact location of the finding in the virtual phantom by a 3D marker, the 3D modeling of the oral pathologies contributed to a better diagnosis, improving the remote communication between the attending dentist and specialists. Conclusion: The combination of the 3D modeling and anatomical-referencing in a teledentistry platform can become a powerful tool for the dental practice, due to their utility and specificity

Emergência indígena, Comunicação-outra e Bem Viver. Pensar a pratica comunicativa dos povos indígenas

Emergência indígena, Comunicação-outra e Bem Viver são conceitos interligados neste trabalho a fim de contribuir para a compreensão dos processos de comunicação gerados pelos povos indígenas da América Latina no atual cenário da (hiper)mídia, considerando a relação de conflito com o sistema colonial de Estados-nação modernos e capitalismo global. Estabeleceu-se que as práticas de sócio-comunicação indígenas incorporam sistemas alterativos de significação aos modos de representação impostas pela colonialidade, produzindo uma Comunicação-outra que contribui para a utopística de pensar/viver outros possíveis mundos.Indigenous emergence, Communication-other and Well Living are concepts overlapped in this work, which are aimed to help to the understanding of the communicative socio- praxis that Latin American indigenous peoples generate in the current media landscape, considering the relations of ongoing conflict with the system of colonial control of the nation-state in its alliance with global capitalism. It is established that indigenous communicative practices introduce alterative systems of meaning to the means of representation imposed by colonialism, hence producing a different kind of Communication-other that negatively impacts the opportunity of thinking / living in other possible worlds.Emergencia indígena, Comunicación-otra y Buen Vivir son conceptos que este trabajo imbrica para aportar a la comprensión de la socio-praxis comunicativa que los pueblos indígenas latinoamericanos generan en el actual escenario (hiper) mediático, considerando las relaciones de conflicto que mantienen con el sistema de mando colonial de los Estados-nación en su alianza con el capitalismo global. Se establece que las prácticas comunicativas indígenas introducen sistemas de significación alterativos a los modos de representación impuestos por la colonialidad, produciendo una Comunicación-otra que tributa a la utopística de pensar/habitar otros mundos posibles