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Dentistry at a distance: a 650 km checkup via satellite

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A dentist at ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) in the UK controlling a robotic arm at the University of Glasgow’s SCENE facility at Loch Lomond.

Citizens living in remote areas could one day receive specialist medical care without leaving their communities, thanks to advances in telemedicine through satellite communications. The European Space Agency (ESA) and the University of Glasgow have successfully run a remote dental examination using a secure satellite link combined with a rapidly usable 5G network.

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