Artificial Intelligence– Ray of Hope

Artificial Intelligence– Ray of Hope - Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are having a profound impact across sectors such as healthcare, engineering, science, and smart cities. In healthcare, AI has shown great potential to enhance patient care and treatment outcomes while reducing the risk of human error.1 Dentistry is undergoing a similar transformation, with AI being utilized for the diagnosis of dental diseases and providing treatment recommendations. Increasingly, dental professionals rely on AI for diagnosis, clinical decision-making, treatment planning, and prognosis prediction across ten dental specialties.2 A key advantage of AI in dentistry is its ability to rapidly analyze large volumes of data with precision, providing valuable insights that support enhanced decision-making.3 This paper aims to explore the advancements in AI algorithms frequently used in dentistry and evaluate their performance in diagnosis, clinical decision-making, treatment, and prognosis across ten dental specialties: dental public health, endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral medicine and pathology, oral and maxillofacial radiology, orthodontics and dentofacialorthopedics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics, prosthodontics, and digital dentistry.4 Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Dentistry, Dentistry, Dental Specialty