Artificial Intelligence (AI) In Dental Clinical Practice

Artificial intelligence (AI) characterized as the ability of a machine to mimic human intelligence, has been a breakthrough in technological advancements during the last few decades and has made a huge impact on our everyday life. In current scenario, it has become necessary for the dental professionals too to get oriented with clinical as well as technological advancement to provide easy, rapid, relatively cost-effective and excellent patient care. In dentistry, artificial intelligence has been playing a significant role in improving diagnosis, treatment planning and quality of patient care. But dental practice involves more than just disease diagnosis and includes evaluating correlation between clinical and radiographic findings and administering customized definitive treatment to the patients. Hence, AI cannot replace dentists but can definitely help reducing his efforts and assisting him in decision making. This review provides information about the existence of this new technology, its current applications and its influence on dental practice