Artificial Intelligence is an approach to make a computer, a robot, or a product to think how smart human think. AI is a study of how human brain think, learn, decide and work, when it tries to solve problems.
John McCarthy, a mathematician coined the term artificial intelligence in 1956, and widely recognized as the father of artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence in dentistry
Virtual Dental Assistants: Different tasks in routine dental set ups such as booking appointments, remainder for patients, dental billing, document necessary data, teleconsultations can be performed with less labor and greater precision.
Oral Medicine and maxillofacial Radiology: The diagnosis and treatment of lesions of oral cavity can be screened and classified into suspicious altered mucosa undergoing premalignant and malignant changes with the help of AI. Genetic predisposition of oral cancer for a large population might be accurately predicted using AI.
Pediatric Dentistry: AI enabled pain control gadgets is the new, smarter way toward injection free pedodontics practice. The various 4D goggles, movies, virtual reality based games can be used as behavior modification
Orthodontics: AI help in diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring the progression of treatment etc. With the advent of intraoral scanning and digital impressions help in predicting tooth movements. Customized aligner based orthodontics treatments are successfully possible.
Periodontology: Deep learning analysis using radiograph's can help in diagnosis and treatment planning of periodontal diseases by the early detection of periodontal change, bone loss bone density and detection of peri-implantitis.
Prosthodontics: AI combined with designing software's can aid dentist to design the best possible and aesthetic prosthesis. The time consuming and laborious process of conventional casting is replaced by the use of CADCAM technology which creates 2D and 3D models.
Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics: Detection of caries is possible with the help of Logicon Caries Detector. AI can help in analyzing the life span of different restorative materials and to choose them wisely for suitable cases and aid in successfully locating the minor apical foramen thereby strengthening the accuracy of working length.
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: AI software programs helps in planning surgeries by preserving the vital structure around to the smallest detail before the actual surgery with higher intra operative accuracy.
Public Health Dentistry: The primary goal of AI in dentistry is the analysis of the relationship between prevention and treatment techniques in the field of public health. Machine learning models are more useful than statistical models for predicting DMFT index and caries risk in a patient. Artificial Intelligence based oral health tracking mobile app is "Denta Mitra".