Artificial intelligence - A boon for dentistry

Abstract

Today artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important in the healthcare industry. It can be useful in many areas where humans can be aided by new technologies. The concept of "artificial intelligence" (AI) refers to machines being capable of performing human tasks. Machine learning (ML) is an AI subdomain that "learns" intrinsic statistical patterns in data to ultimately make predictions on unseen data. Deep learning is a machine learning technique that employs multi-layer mathematical operations to learn and infer on complex data such as imagery. With the substantial growth in documented information and patient data, intelligent data computation software has become a requirement. Artificial intelligence has a wide range of applications in medicine and dentistry, from data processing and information retrieval to the use of neural networks for diagnosis and the incorporation of augmented reality and virtual reality into dental education. Artificial intelligence (AI) is being studied in dentistry for a variety of purposes, including the identification of normal and anomalous structures, disease diagnosis, and treatment outcome prediction. This review looks at some current and future applications of AI in dentistry. We are ushering in a modern age, and AI is undeniably the future of dental practise management.