Title: The future of dentistry: Artificial intelligence
Abstract:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown remarkable growth over the past few years. Advancement in digitized data acquisition, machine learning and computing organization, applications of AI are intensifying into those areas which are confined to human specialists. When applied to medicine and dentistry, AI has incredible ability to enhance patient care and reform such health care fields. In Dentistry, AI is considered for various purposes, precisely identification of normal and abnormal structures, analysis of dental images followed by diagnosis of diseases and predicting possible treatment results.
Enormous increase in patient information documentation, there is need for utilizing intelligent software to assemble and document this data. From the basic phase of recording a patient's history to data handling followed by extracting the data for diagnosis, artificial intelligence has countless applications in dental field. Artificial intelligence is not a replacement of a dental surgeon but it is important to be accustomed with the possibility to integrate such technology advancement in future for benefit of dental practice. This presentation describes the current and future applications of AI in various specialties of dentistry.
