WhatsApp: A telemedicine platform for facilitating remote oral medicine consultation and improving clinical examinations

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 248-254

  Petruzzi, Massimo ^a   De Benedittis, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; MOUTH DISEASES; STOMATOLOGY; TELECONSULTATION; TELEMEDICINE; TRAVEL;

CELL PHONES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOUTH DISEASES; ORAL MEDICINE; REMOTE CONSULTATION; TELEMEDICINE; TRAVEL;

EID: 84958977372     PISSN: 22124403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oooo.2015.11.005     Document Type: Article

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