Affiliation:
1. University of Oklahoma, USA & University of Washington, USA
Abstract
This chapter builds a case in support of digital dentistry technology based on the premise that dentistry is a medical science that requires dental healthcare professionals to perform their day-to-day work with unwavering exactitude and to provide services to the public with mathematically precise, scientific accuracy. Imaginative literature uses different perspectives on the need for digital dentistry technology, emphasizing the role teeth play in society, dentists' physical and emotional health, dentistry as a profession, and dentist-patient communication flow. Outstanding portrayals of teeth, dentists, and patients are William Shakespeare's “Much Ado About Nothing,” Edgar Allan Poe's “Berenice,” Frank Norris' “McTeague,” and Rudolph Fisher's “The Walls of Jericho.” Shakespeare rhetorically compares love to a toothache, Poe investigates the meaning of professionalism in dentistry, Norris shows the folly of a charlatan Gold Rush dentist who weds a patient, and Fisher depicts dynamics of compassion, digital communication, and AI in health-intensive sites divided by walls from everyday life.
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