Role of artificial intelligence in clinical practice

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized numerous fields, including dentistry, offering transformative potential in diagnosis, treatment planning, and patient care. With its ability to replicate human intelligence and process complex data sets, AI provides innovative solutions across various dental specialties. This review discusses AI's role in clinical dentistry, emphasizing its applications, benefits, limitations, and future prospects in fields like radiology, orthodontics, periodontics, prosthodontics, and endodontics. Currently, the application of convoluted neural network (CNN)s is more common in the dental field. Moreover, it offers a glimpse into its applications on integration with virtual reality, augmented reality and metaverse.