The congress Com-Ed-Dent 2, dealing with the application of computers in dental education and practice, gave an overview of the current position. Although not a complete picture was drawn, it still gave a rather good impression of the direction in which these digital applications are heading. Computer Aided Learning (CAL) seems to develop quite rapidly and represents the majority of all the mentioned digital applications. Applications for the daily practice with the exception of administrative systems, are lacking behind and are only now starting very slowly. This issue will present a summarised overview of this congress. Should one be interested to have a look at the entire range of options emphasised at this congress, then one can read the abstracts by using the X-link. The url-address is: http://www.mds.qmw.ac.uk/cdentcare/conf3.html.