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  • ChatGPT vs. Radiologist: Can AI Read a Dental Radiograph?

    AI dental radiograph reading by ChatGPT, Grok and MANUS matched radiologists on textbook cases — 92.5% vs 96.7%. Impressive, but here’s the catch.

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    Hezarani
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  • Can AI Cephalometric Landmark Detection Match a Specialist?

    AI cephalometric landmark detection matched senior specialists across 1,190 scans, placing skull points to ~1.2 mm. Impressive — but is it clinic-ready?

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    Hezarani
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  • AI Periodontitis Staging: Real Diagnosis or Guesswork?

    AI periodontitis staging read one panoramic X-ray at 0.95-0.97 precision on bone landmarks, but tooth detection lagged at 0.82. What the gap means.

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    Hezarani
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  • AI Oral Cancer Screening: Early Warning or False Alarm?

    AI oral cancer screening scored AUROC 0.99 for cancer vs. a healthy mouth, but just 0.78 on catching the earliest lesions. Here’s what that means.

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    Hezarani
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  • AI Implant Planning: Better Citations, Worse Spatial Sense?

    Giving GPT-4o a library of implant guidelines improved its citations — but not its plans, and it nudged toward overtreatment. What that means for you.

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    Hezarani
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  • Explainable AI in Dentistry: Real Trust or Just a Story?

    A 2026 systematic review screened 100 studies of explainable AI in dentistry. Only 19 qualified — and 14 of those carried a high risk of bias.

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    Hezarani
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  • AI vs. Endodontist: Who Reads a Dental X-Ray Better?

    A King’s College London study pitted an AI platform against expert endodontists on 339 teeth, with CBCT as the gold standard. The AI found half the lesions.

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    Hezarani
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  • AI in Dental Education: Better Than a Lecture — or a Tutor?

    A meta-analysis of 6 randomised trials found AI-assisted case-based learning beat lectures — but not human-led tutorials. What the gap means for dentistry.

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    Hezarani
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  • The Dentist in Your Pocket: Can AI Turn a Smartphone Photo Into a Cavity Detector?

    A 2025 systematic review tested AI apps that detect cavities from smartphone photos. Here’s what the science really shows — the wins, the blind spots, and what it means for you.

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    Hezarani
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  • Artificial Intelligence in Periodontal Diagnosis: Are Algorithms Ready to Sit Chairside? Can a Machine See Gum Disease Better Than We Can? Periodontitis is not subtle. Bone loss, inflamed gingiva, deep pockets—these are findings every clinician is trained to recognize. And yet, despite decades of refinement in periodontal indices and classification systems, diagnosis remains surprisingly variable. Why…

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    Hezarani
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