Abstract
This work proposed in a narrative way to review in the literature studies that involve the use of distance education in dentistry in Brazil, what are its methodologies and the tools developed for application in undergraduate and graduate studies. The vast majority of refresher courses "via the internet" are mostly transcriptions of face-to-face teaching with formats of high accessibility and low interactivity. There is a minimum offer of updating courses and specialization in Dentistry in the distance modality. From the agents of this new process, the undergraduate students are able to use tools for distance education and obtain a better use of the course with them. The teacher, however, still needs a basic technical dimension, to learn how to use the tools, to develop the distance course and the pedagogical aspect, to act as a facilitator and mediator of the teaching-learning process, being no longer the center of it.