DentalMonitoring has released a new version of its app with a gamification feature to help engage patients and spark friendly competition. This new feature offers patients a fun and interactive experience – key to enhancing motivation and compliance, especially for teens.
Recent analyses of health care apps have shown introducing game-like features to the design can change patient behavior by rewarding them for keeping up with treatment. Adding fun and goal-based elements to a regular task will make that task vastly more competing
In the app, patients with fixed or removable appliances can now unlock special badges for activities like: taking scans on time, treatment milestones, getting consecutive GOs, treatment anniversaries, and sharing badges for social media.
The release has now been rolled out to all patients, new and existing.