The Role of Ai in Modern Dentistry: How Technology is Changing the Field
Part 6 of 7
AI in Restorative Dentistry Ensures Innovative Precision
AI has made a substantial impact in the realm of restorative dentistry as well. How so? It’s like this. AI can be used to create dental restorations.
Mouth scans can be fed into AI, and you’ll get efficient, precise, and perfect-fitting crowns, bridges, and veneers afterward. You can still have the doctor add his artistic touch or flair to it, but for the most part, the AI has your back.
- AI-Driven CAD/CAM: Even before AI, people have been getting single-day restorations or even full-arch reconstructions using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) anyway, but now with an AI twist.
- Previous Data Plus Custom Data: Using previous patient data for restorative dentistry and mixing it with current customized treatment plans, a sufficiently advanced AI can design and fabricate excellent restorations.
- Minute Details of the Oral Anatomy: The AI takes into account the minute details of the patient’s oral anatomy to ensure a perfect fit and full functionality. The dentist is also there as human oversight to correct any errors.
- Digital Smile Design: The resulting restorations precisely fit with the patient’s mouth while coming out as aesthetically pleasing too based on the past restorations done in similar cases. It’s Digital Smile Design (DSD) in action.
- Material Development: AI can also help in developing new materials for restorations, optimizing them for biocompatibility, durability, and aesthetics. Such innovations are setting new standards of quality for this branch of dentistry.
There you have it. Even when it comes to restorative dentistry, AI can be incorporated with CAD, CAM, and DSD to streamline and optimize every aspect of restoring your smile and your dental function in more ways than one.
AI solutions don’t only (literally) enhance the appearance of your smile; they restore the function of your teeth and mouth. To what extent? It mostly depends on how much restoration your mouth needs.