The Role of Ai in Modern Dentistry:
How Technology is Changing the Field
Part 5
Customizing Care to Individual Needs with Custom Treatment Plans
Artificial Intelligence has also revolutionized the development of treatment plans. Before AI, treatments were usually recommended instead of planned. Nothing was set in stone because more guesswork was involved.
Dentists adopted a more “wait and see” approach to their treatment based on standardized protocols that might not account for the unique needs of every patient.
It’s a one-size-fits-all solution where outliers are treated like square pegs being forced into a round hole. AI allows more customization of treatment.
The more customized the treatment, the better the treatment plans end up becoming. For example:
∙ Patient Response: Without AI assistance, multiple patients necessitate streamlined treatment. With AI assistance, dentists can predict how specific patients respond to different treatments, allowing for custom treatments.
∙ Why Custom Treatments? Tailoring interventions for patient specifics ensures better outcomes and less trial-and-error on which standardized treatment you should take, especially when it comes to preventative dentistry.
∙ A Satisfactory Experience Guaranteed: The simple addition of AI systems enables dentists to simulate various treatment scenarios instead of trying treatments out on you on their best guess based on past experience.
∙ Mutual Understanding Between Doctor and Patient: AI-enhanced treatments like the Digital Smile Design allow both the dentist and his patient to visualize the potential results of every option available to get the best “smile design.”
∙ A Technology-Driven Approach: This tech-driven approach simplifies complex procedures in digestible info, so it’s easy to screen whether a patient is a viable implantology or orthodontics candidate with amazing precision.
∙ AI Is Critical to Patient Success: AI’s offerings when it comes to ensuring precise planning with the best possible scenario (in light of not only the available services but also the patient’s viability for them) are critical to patient success. (To be continued)