Busan City Promotes Education on New Technologies in Digital Dentistry

Selection of Domestic and International Dental Professionals Education Providers... Simultaneous Workforce Development and Market Expansion
Training a Total of 6,250 Dentists and Others... Leading Talent Development for the 4th Industrial Revolution

Digital dental CAD/CAM system and 3D contour scanner.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] An education provider specializing in digital dentistry personnel training in the Busan area has been selected.

Busan City announced on the 15th that it recently completed the selection of domestic and international education providers to secure competitive high-level practical personnel through dental diagnosis and treatment experience education using digital dental devices, and to create demand for digital devices.

Busan is home to leading digital dental device companies such as Dio and Osstem Implant, and with a high adoption rate of digital dentistry, it is an optimal city for the digital dentistry industry.

This project is being promoted with two main objectives: to train specialists using 3D oral scanners, CAD/CAM software, etc., to respond to the rapidly changing digital environment influenced by the 4th Industrial Revolution, and to secure sales channels for companies in the Busan area.

The "Overseas Dental Professional Education Institution" was selected through a public contest and evaluation in June, with the Dio Consortium (Dio Co., Ltd., Medpark Co., Ltd., Welcome Dental Laboratory) chosen.

Although initially planned as offline education only, it will also be conducted online as non-face-to-face education in preparation for the post-COVID era. This education, targeting overseas dentists, will prepare the program in July and is expected to educate about 5,000 people starting in August.

The "Domestic Dental Professional Education" project selected Busan National University Graduate School of Dentistry and Busan Digital Dentistry Talent Development Center through a public contest in March. Currently, education is being provided to 1,300 domestic dental professionals (670 dentists, 120 dental technicians, and 510 hygienists).

Shin Chang-ho, Director of Future Industry at Busan City, said, "With a well-established digital dentistry foundation, we are training personnel who can utilize digital dental diagnostic equipment and devices, and we expect to pioneer domestic and international markets." He added, "In line with the growth of non-face-to-face industries, we aim to strengthen competitiveness through a paradigm shift in the dental industry sector and anticipate synergy effects with the Korea Dental Industry Research Institute, which our city plans to attract in the future."

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