
P-12 Reimagining Dental Care: The Power of AI
CE Hours: 1.25
Description: This course offers an exploration of the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented intelligence (AuI) in dentistry. Participants will gain an understanding of fundamental AI concepts, including essential principles, terminology, strengths, and limitations, with a focus on their relevance to dental practice.
The course will examine key assistive technologies, highlighting contemporary applications such as automated imaging analysis and diagnostic tools that enhance patient care. Participants will investigate how AI and AuI technologies are revolutionizing dental care through advancements in early disease detection, personalized treatment strategies, and streamlined healthcare delivery.
Additionally, the course will analyze emerging trends and future trajectories of AI within the dental field including insights into how innovative technologies have the opportunity to reshape dentistry, better standardize both payers and providers, support the integration of oral and overall health, and improve oral health outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe Fundamental AI Concepts and the application of AI/AuI in Dentistry: Review the essential principles, terminology, strengths, and limitations of artificial intelligence (AI), augmented intelligence (AuI), and computer vision, emphasizing their relevance to the field of dentistry. Examine pivotal AI and AuI assistive technologies and their contemporary applications in dental practice, including automated imaging analysis and diagnostic tools.
- Explore AI's Impact on Dentistry and Oral Health: Investigate how AI and AuI technologies are revolutionizing dental care through advancements in early disease detection, personalized treatment strategies, and streamlined healthcare delivery.
- Evaluate Emerging AI Trends: Analyze the future trajectory of AI/AuI within dentistry, considering how innovative technologies may help standardize both payers and providers, help integrate oral and overall health, and improve oral health outcomes.
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Teresa A. Dolan, DDS, MPH
Dr. Teresa (Terri) Dolan is the Chief Dental Officer at Overjet (www.overjet.ai), the global leader in dental AI. She previously served as Dentsply Sirona’s Chief Clinical Officer, leading the global Clinical Affairs function. Dr. Dolan is also professor and dean emeritus of the University of Florida College of Dentistry, where she served as dean and chief academic officer from 2003 until 2013. She is recognized for her contributions to dental public health, geriatric dentistry and as a champion for diversity and women in dentistry. Dr. Dolan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers University; she earned a DDS degree from the University of Texas and a MPH degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Dental Health Services Research Scholar, completed a Veterans Administration Fellowship in Geriatric Dentistry, and is board certified in Dental Public Health. As a recognized leader in the dental profession, she currently serves as past-president of the Santa Fe Group, past-president of the American College of Dentists, president of the ACD Foundation, and previously served on the board of directors of the ADA Forsyth and the ADEA Gies Foundation.
Disclosure(s): Ovberjet: Employment (Ongoing)