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A review pooling 13 studies found smokers lose a little more of the bone holding their implants every year. For diabetes, osteoporosis and other health conditions, the research barely existed. Ask a dentist about implants and smoking and you'll usually hear about failure rates: smokers lose more implants. Less talked about is what happens to the bone around an implant that … [Read more...] about Smoking Speeds Bone Loss Around Dental Implants, Year by Year

The scanners, printers and AI software are already in your dentist’s office. The research says appointments get shorter and more consistent. Almost nobody has checked whether your teeth end up better. More than two in five American dentists now use AI for something in their practice, and around one in five runs it on X-rays. That comes from the American Dental Association’s … [Read more...] about Research: Appointments Are Getting Shorter and More Consistent With AI and Digital Dentistry

Ask a few hundred dental patients whether they’d let a robot treat them and you don’t get a yes or a no. You get a boundary. At a teaching hospital in Jeddah, nearly nine in ten were fine with a machine taking their X-rays and around six in ten with one working out the diagnosis. Ask the same people about a filling and support halves. About an extraction it’s effectively gone — … [Read more...] about Research: 78% of Patients Know of Dental AI But Only 8% Have Had It

Software is already reading dental X-rays in roughly one in five US practices. A new review asks what it has actually been shown to change, and finds an uncomfortable gap between the two. If you’ve had a panoramic X-ray taken recently, there’s a fair chance software looked at it before your dentist did. Two German periodontists have just worked through a decade of research … [Read more...] about Research: AI Spots Gum Bone Loss Well However Outcome Evidence is Missing