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treatment planning
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Diagnostics & ImagingAI Maxillary Sinus Detection: 99% Accurate or Too Easy?
AI maxillary sinus detection hit 99.43% accuracy on CBCT scans — but on 874 images from one clinic, is near-perfect a breakthrough or a…
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Generative AI & ChatbotsAI Denture Design: Reliable, or Different Every Time?
AI denture design by four chatbots: expert raters agreed, but each bot drafted a different partial every time the same case was asked.
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Implants & Oral SurgeryAI Implant Planning: A Surgeon’s Blueprint or a Rough Draft?
AI implant planning from CBCT matched specialists within ~1.7 mm — but picked implant size right only 65–75% of the time. Promise and peril,…
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OrthodonticsAI Orthodontic Simulation: Real Preview or a Guess?
AI orthodontic simulation renders a photorealistic ‘after’ face most people can’t spot — but it draws the plan, it can’t predict your real result.
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OrthodonticsBlack Triangles After Clear Aligners: Can AI Predict Them?
Black triangles after clear aligners: a 2025 model predicted them from Invisalign plans at 0.88 AUC — before treatment. The promise, and the fine…
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Implants & Oral SurgeryAI Wisdom Tooth Surgery: Can It Spot the Nerve in Time?
AI wisdom tooth surgery tools now grade nerve-injury risk from X-rays at ~0.95 accuracy — but a new study shows they still can’t replace…
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Orthodontics
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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Generative AI & ChatbotsAI 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…