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Dental Tribune Asia Pacific Edition | 11/2017 ASIA PACIFIC NEWS 03 Texting for advice: New app enables medical consults round the clock anywhere. In addition, text consult- ing with medical and dental profes- sionals costs less compared with face-to-face consultations at the clinic, the developers stressed. For example, Dr David Cheong, one of Mobile Health’s co-found- ers and its chief medical officer, charges S$3 (US$2.20) for the ini- tial messages for the tele-consult and S$0.50 (US$0.36) for subse- quent messages—substantially less than his usual consultation fee of S$30 (US$22), the Straits Times reported. The app is available for iOS and Android devices and can be down- loaded free from the iTunes Store and Google Play. More information is available at www.manadr.com. AD By DTI SINGAPORE: Tele-medicine and tele-health apps are increasingly emerging. Just last month, the MaNaDr app for mobiles was launched in Singapore. Through the app, which is accessible to pa- tients in Singapore and Australia, users can tele-consult and sched- ule appointments with over 500 clinics and 600 general medical and dental practitioners and spe- cialists in the two countries. The app is part of the larger MaNaDr healthcare platform, which is owned by Singaporean company Mobile Health. At the launch event, which was held at the Singapore Press Holdings’ News Centre, Mobile Health co- founder and CEO Dr Tung Yeng Siaw said he and his team of doc- tors were motivated by the vision of a mobile platform that would empower patients to take charge of their healthcare. Officially introduced on 26 October, the MaNaDr app was already soft launched in January. Since then, almost 100,000 appointments have been booked through the app, the developers stated. In tele-consulting medical pro- fessionals, patients can text doctors and send photographs of their medi- cal conditions through the app. If the user’s preferred doctor is unavaila- ble, he or she will be referred to an- other professional. According to Siaw, doctors do not have to pay a fee to list their services on the app. Instead they are provided with an extra stream of revenue through the paid tele-consults. An advantage of the system, which is mainly intended for fol- low-up consultations and minor health issues, is that patients have ac- cess to medical advice anytime and The protective fluoride varnishFluor Protector N www.ivoclarvivadent.comIvoclar Vivadent AGBendererstr. 2 | 9494 Schaan | Liechtenstein | Tel. +423 235 35 35 | Fax +423 235 33 60Superior protection against dental caries and erosion • Homogeneous solution• Immediately ready for use • High-yield delivery formThe varnish for an immediate fluoridation of enamel