CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Literature Review

A literature review is a survey and discussion of the literature in a given area of study.
A literature review surveys scholarly articles, books and other sources relevant to a particular
issue, area of research, or theory, providing a description, summary, and critical evaluation of
each work.

Electronic Dental Charting

Computer technology has revolutionized the way the world does business, allowing us to work
faster, smarter and more efficiently than ever before. Computers first made their way into the
dental office in the late 1960s as an accounts receivable device. Today, we can digitize anything
and recall it in the operatory with the patient.

Based on the Electronic Dental charting desktop; it is software for the management of medical
and dental office which had been implemented exclusively for the Apple's OS 9 Operating
System.
The task of this software was to provide the chair side clinical charting, periodontal charting and
also clinic record.
This system had offered a good and effective interface which can easily being used by the dentist
to record all the information about dental patients.

This software had provided the entire important requirement for the dentist such as the dental
chart, tool pallet, and tooth inspector.
Dental chart will provide a full and complete illustration of the patients tooth.
Tool pallet shows the tools that can be used by the dentist in order to do the treatment towards
the patients.
The tooth inspector is an area where dentist can gather all the dental information about the
patients in only one interface.