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2Robot Technology in dentistry, literature characteristics25In total 373 authors were counted of which most (253, or 60%) had a technical background. The majority of first authors had a technical background (70 articles, 84%) and in 30 articles, no authors with a dental or medical background were involved at all (36%). In 15 articles (18%), no authors with a technical background were involved. Fields of dentistry and study designOrthodontics, implantology and surgery, together responsible for 43% of all included articles, formed the largest groups in this study. Dental radiology (2%) formed the smallest group with only two included articles (Fig. 4) [25, 26]. With eight articles concerning the ‘Suresmile’ robot, it was the most frequently mentioned robot in literature [16, 27-33]. In total, 75 articles (80%) were categorized as basic research of which 55 consisted of applied research containing some type of experiment. Outside articles describing basic research, six were categorized as observational clinical research, 12 as observational epidemiological research and one as clinical experimental research (Fig. 4). The observational clinical research category consisted of three case- reports [29, 34, 35], and three case-series [28, 30, 33]. All but one case report [35] were reported in the field of orthodontics. Observational epidemiological research consisted of five case-control [16, 27, 32, 36, 37], three observational [31, 38, 39], and four comparative studies [24, 40-42]. Other than basic research study designs, were only to be found in the field of orthodontics, implantology and in the education of both patients and students.0510152025OrthodonticsImplantology and SurgeryProsthodonticsRestorative dentistryGnathologyEducation of studentsGeneral practiceEducation of patientsEndodonticsDental radiologyTotal number of articlesField of dentistryEpidemiological research - ObservationalClinical research - ExperimentalClinical research - ObservationalBasic research - AppliedBasic research - TheoreticalFigure 4. Total number of articles and the study design per field of dentistry.Tom van Riet.indd 25 26-10-2023 11:59