Internship project: Learn dentists’ preferences and attitudes towards lasers and robotics for a noise and needle-free patient experience
Project Participants
Status: Ongoing
Opportunity
Dentroid is an Australian deep tech startup founded in 2017 by a dentist and engineer. Through combining robotics and photonics solutions, Dentroid is building a technology platform to make dentistry a pain-free and seamless experience. Several technologies are in development, including a laser-enabled dental robot (Dentroid-R) and a needle-free photonic anaesthesia technology (Nuralyte). The technology’s compactness and mobility will improve treatment quality and access for rural, remote, and Indigenous communities.
The intern will conduct structured interviews with members of the oral healthcare workforce. A key output of the internship project will be a better understanding of attitudes and expectations related to these emerging technologies.
Project Objectives
- Explore the attitudes and expectations of the oral healthcare workforce towards emerging digital health technologies.
- Understand the perspectives of the oral healthcare workforce towards a range of pain-free technologies for use in dentistry.
- Develop recommendations on how workforce adoption of emerging digital health technologies could be better supported in oral healthcare.