[From digitalization to embodied intelligence: technological innovation and paradigm shift in clinical stomatology]

In the critical stage of digital and intelligent transformation of stomatology, artificial intelligence (AI) technology has shown significant advantages in diagnosis, treatment planning and other fields. However, limited by the nature of disembodied intelligence, the clinical execution end still faces the "last centimeter" bottleneck such as weak environmental perception and lack of dynamic interaction. As a new AI paradigm emphasizing the closed loop of "perception-decision-action", embodied intelligence provides a new theoretical direction and technical path to break through the execution limitations of existing digital technologies. This paper sorts out the technical core of embodied intelligence and its adaptation logic to oral clinical scenarios. From the perspective of different evaluation dimensions, it compares the conventional medical robot autonomy classification with intelligence-oriented frameworks, and further introduces the embodied intelligence grading system in the context of oral healthcare, systematically describes the development direction of core technologies such as visuo-tactile fusion perception, oral-specific world model, and simulation-to-reality (Sim2Real) simulation training, prospects its application scenarios in subspecialties such as oral implantology, prosthodontics, endodontics, and orthodontics, and puts forward expert suggestions on core issues such as data islands, regulatory ethics, and technical boundaries faced by the current field, so as to provide a reference for the rational development and standardized application of oral embodied intelligence.