DIGITAL DENTISTRY

The buzz in dentistry is digital this digital that. Dental professionals in Nigeria seem to be sleeping except for few talk about it no one seem to be doing something concrete about it. Regulatory agencies are asleep and associations are just showing little or no concern. Software engineers are dictating the way we should practice our profession and when the advanced worlds is done they will dump it on us. TOKUNBO  CAD/CAM will soon arrive and dental professionals will start falling on each other to begin from the obsolete version of the technology. Should we not emulate China who sponsor their citizens to countries where these developments are happening in order to import the latest to their country. Politicians are not looking at that now but how to share the national cake. Believe it on not virtual impression and models are real and milling machines are getting cheaper. None dental professionals who can use those software will soon make the first dental prostheses. May be then we will wake up to the reality that will soon tell both the clinic and the lab that there is need for concerted fight for the survival of our profession.
Should we wait until this start happening before we start doing something? This is a wake up call to anyone in dentistry whether dentist or technologist.