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Artificial intelligence and personalised dental medicine - just a hype or true game changers?

British Dental Journal volume 234, page 755 (2023)Cite this article

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  • Provides a definition of the terms artificial intelligence (AI) and personalised dental medicine.

  • Highlights currents fields of use of AI in dental medicine.

  • Highlights potential risks of big data use in the context of AI and P4 dentistry.

  • Tries to take a look into the crystal ball regarding the future developments of AI and P4 dental medicine.

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  1. Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral Health and Medicine; and Head of Research at the University Centre for Dental Medicine Basel (UZB), University of Basel, Switzerland

    Michael M. Bornstein

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Bornstein, M. Artificial intelligence and personalised dental medicine - just a hype or true game changers?. Br Dent J 234, 755 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-023-5815-8

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