Open Peer Review Discuss this article (0) Comments REVIEW How ‘smart’ is smart dentistry? [version 1; referees: awaiting peer review] Peter Kokol , Helena Blažun Vošner , Jernej Završnik , Marko Turčin 2 Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, 2000, Slovenia Community Healthcare Center Dr. Adolf Drolc, Maribor, 2000, Slovenia Faculty of Health and Social Sciences Slovenj Gradec, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia Abstract Latest advances in information and health technologies enabled Background: dentistry to follow the paradigm shift occurring in medicine – the transition to so called smart medicine. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to assess how ‘smart’ is smart dentistry as of the end of 2018. We analysed the state of the art in smart dentistry, performing Methods: bibliometric mapping on a corpus of smart dentistry papers found in the Scopus bibliographical database. The search resulted in a corpus of 3451 papers, revealing that smart Results: dentistry research is following the progress in smart medicine; however, there are some gaps in some specific areas like gamification and use of holistic smart dentistry systems. Smart dentistry is smart; however, it must become smarter. Conclusions: Keywords smart medicine, smart dentistry, bibliometric mapping, papers as subjects Peter Kokol ( ) Corresponding author: peter.kokol@um.si : Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – Original Author roles: Kokol P Draft Preparation; : Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Blažun Vošner H Writing – Review & Editing; : Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – Review & Editing; : Završnik J Turčin M Investigation, Validation, Writing – Review & Editing No competing interests were disclosed. Competing interests: The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work. Grant information: © 2019 Kokol P . This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the , which Copyright: et al Creative Commons Attribution Licence permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Kokol P, Blažun Vošner H, Završnik J and Turčin M. How to cite this article: How ‘smart’ is smart dentistry? [version 1; referees: awaiting 2019, :183 ( ) peer review] F1000Research 8 https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17972.1 14 Feb 2019, :183 ( ) First published: 8 https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17972.1 1 2,3 2 2 1 2 3 Referee Status: AWAITING PEER REVIEW 14 Feb 2019, :183 ( First published: 8 ) https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17972.1 14 Feb 2019, :183 ( Latest published: 8 ) https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17972.1 v1 Page 1 of 6 F1000Research 2019, 8:183 Last updated: 14 FEB 2019