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Little Use of Three-Dimensional Digital Dentistry in Rural Areas: Comparisons in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale
Abstract
This chapter investigates the little use in rural areas of 3D technology, a staple of Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) for prosthetics. The analysis argues the importance of traditional and pastoral values as a philosophical justification explaining rural areas' lack of 3D digital dentistry technology. Rural dentistry research typically alleges that economic impoverishment, occupational barriers, lack of education, and similar factors based on social stratification, prevent the development of digital dentistry technology in rural areas. Beyond socioeconomic concerns, the rural ambiance prioritizes the natural environment, social relationships, and community cooperation. Digital dentistry can improve rural health care through videoconferencing, telehealth, computerized recordkeeping, and dentist-patient communications. Technological tools may enhance yet are eclipsed in rural areas by preference for less mechanized dental care demonstrably linked to the time-honored transformative humanistic nature-oriented values in Chaucer's “The Wife of Bath's Tale.”
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