Discover how Dentrix Detect AI can assist in early detection of caries lesions and radiographic bone level measurements to help deliver optimal patient outcomes.
Originally published on DentalEconomics.com, June 2023
A powerful tool with wide-ranging applications and benefits, artificial intelligence—or AI—has been changing the overall health care landscape for decades. By detecting patterns in data, AI can reveal problems and enable providers to connect each problem to the best patient treatment.
For oral health care, an AI diagnostic tool augments dentists’ abilities, creates efficiencies, and increases patient trust. Because AI for dentistry can improve patients’ trust in diagnoses and treatment, it’s more readily adopted—starting a revolution that begins with the mouth.
Becoming an Essential Tool for Dentistry
The healthcare industry has been gradually turning to AI as practitioners seek to enhance patient care, but it’s experienced slow adoption. This pattern isn’t unusual, according to the Gartner hype cycle , which is a graphical presentation that shows the maturity, adoption, and social application of specific technologies over time. Even X-rays took almost half a century to be seen as a necessary diagnostic tool for dentists, so some may expect that the acceptance of a dental AI tool would also be gradual.
However, AI assistants like Dentrix Detect AI powered and manufactured by VideaHealth offer such powerful image-analysis technology that dentists are seeing immediate benefits in making diagnoses and recommending treatment with increased confidence. These dental AI tools have quelled or diminished the hype cycle by proving their value in only a few years, especially for solo dentists who can rely on AI for diagnostic confirmation.
It’s safe to predict that AI-enabled analysis tools will soon be considered an essential clinical tool in the dental office. As AI detects patterns in dental X-rays that detect carious lesions and interproximal radiographic bone level measurements (RBL), providers can help their patients have even better health outcomes.
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By Florian Hill, CEO and Founder of VideaHealth and Adam McDaniel, Director of Product Management at Henry Schein One
