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Artificial Intelligence in Dental Practice: Current Trends and Future Perspectives.
Roma Mascarenhas1, Karthik Shetty1, Laxmish Mallya1
1Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Manipal College of Dental Sciences Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India.
Annals of African Medicine
|July 2, 2026
Summary
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly vital in dentistry, offering applications from diagnostics to treatment planning. This technology aids in areas like endodontics, radiology, orthodontics, periodontics, and oral pathology for improved patient outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Dental Informatics
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Computational Dentistry
Background:
- Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly advancing and gaining significance across various industries, including dentistry.
- The evolution of AI, exemplified by Chat Generative Pre-training Transformer, highlights its recent progress since the field's inception in 1956.
Purpose of the Study:
- To highlight the diverse applications and growing significance of artificial intelligence (AI) in modern dental care.
- To explore the specific roles AI plays across multiple dental specializations.
Main Methods:
- Review of current AI applications in dentistry.
- Analysis of AI's impact on diagnostic and treatment planning processes.
Main Results:
- AI demonstrates utility in endodontics for working length determination, anatomy observation, pulp stem cell viability prediction, periapical lesion examination, fracture diagnosis, and retrodontic outcome estimation.
- AI assists in dental radiology assessment, orthodontics treatment planning, periodontics for differentiating between aggressive and chronic periodontitis, and oral pathology for precancerous lesion identification.
Conclusions:
- Artificial intelligence offers a wide range of valuable applications throughout various dental disciplines.
- AI integration in dentistry promises to enhance diagnostic accuracy, treatment planning efficiency, and patient care outcomes.
Keywords:
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