The future is now: the Digital Dentistry Symposium

Introduction: From the perspective of our current undergraduates the period that I grew up in must appear something akin to a technological Stone Age. Concepts such as browsing web pages were unheard of, everything was done on paper, and communication could take weeks or even months to complete. Something as simple as making a phone call could cause endless frustrations: not being able to reach someone or just leave a voice message, running out of credit mid-conversation or ridiculously high phone bills was the norm in most households. Most of us will remember our time attending primary and secondary school, where the teacher used chalk to write on a blackboard and when you got home, you spent countless hours doing homework just to be told off for illegible handwriting. Studying at university wasn’t much better. Everyone was always frantically scribbling down notes in record time during presentations just to get lost in translation midway through the presentation. If you were lucky, one student managed to write down everything for you to copy later