Present and future of artificial intelligence in dentistry

Abstract

The last decennary has marked as the breakthrough in the advancement of technology with evolution of artificial intelligence, which is rapidly gaining the attention of researchers across the globe. Every field opted artificial intelligence with huge enthusiasm and so the field of dental science is no exception. With huge increases in patient documented information and data this is the need of the hour to use intelligent software to compile and save this data. From the basic step of taking a patient's history to data processing and then to extract the information from the data for diagnosis, artificial intelligence has many applications in dental and medical science. While in no case artificial intelligence can replace the role of a dental surgeon but it is important to be acquainted with the scope to amalgamate this advancement of technology in future for betterment of dental practice.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Artificial neural network; Augmented and virtual reality; Dentistry; Fuzzy logic; Genetic algorithms.

Fig. 1

Human and Artificial Intelligence: Human intelligence is denoted by perception, interpretation and biological result. In comparison, Artificial intelligence which cannot replace Human Mind in any ways, but largely supports human interpretation and action. In Artificial Intelligence there are two categories- Machine learning the features are firstly engineered by human experts and then learned., In deep learning, relevant features are learned and mapped in one step, this makes it more capable of handling complex data sets.

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Medical diagnostic cycle.