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Preventive care

 

Ultimately, patients are responsible for their own oral health. But by incorporating the advanced monitoring capabilities of AI into your preventive dental care protocols, you can give your patients the knowledge and encouragement many of them need to practice consistently good home hygiene. As a bonus, by demonstrating your commitment to maintaining oral health through minimally invasive measures, you can increase their trust in—and loyalty to—you and your practice.

Key Takeaways
  • The ability to make informed preventive care recommendations relies on both chairside diagnostic precision and history-based risk assessment.
  • AI analysis can help dentists pinpoint early signs of oral pathology, enabling timely preventive or minimally invasive measures.
  • Front desk staff can use AI insights to identify patients at highest risk for progressive oral disease based on unscheduled treatment plans and prioritize follow-up.

 

AI supports diagnostic precision

AI-powered imaging tools can analyze X-rays, digital images, and intraoral scans quickly and accurately. Used chairside, they can assist in detecting signs of disease such as:

  • Early indications of caries
  • Bone loss from periodontal disease
  • Periapical infection

Such instant information can help you make risk predictions on the spot, supporting better treatment plans. And AI’s ability to detect incremental changes the human eye struggles to see helps ensure well-timed intervention.

AI supports preventive planning

Care protocols may be standard, but every patient is a little different. AI can assist with personalizing preventive treatment recommendations by:

  • Facilitating better patient education through easy-to-understand enhancement of diagnostic images
  • Helping front desk staff prioritize recalls of patients based on their predicted risk of oral disease

These insights enable the whole team to communicate with patients in a timely, comprehensible fashion that stresses the importance of regular professional hygiene appointments as well as good home care.

AI supports risk assessment

AI software that can analyze past and future x-rays can identify patient-specific risks for issues such as caries or periodontal disease. These alerts help prepare dentists with knowledge of potential pathology before they even enter the operatory. They also add weight to conversations about treatment plans.

AI can also look at patient data across your whole practice and provide a global perspective on unscheduled treatment plans. Such plans can be used to determine which groups of patients are most at risk for significant oral disease and should be followed up accordingly.

AI supports preventive care workflows

AI integration into routine workflows around preventive care and follow-up can improve not only team efficiency, but also patient engagement. A few of the workflows that can be streamlined with AI include:

  • Appointment reminders
  • Insurance verification
  • Patient-friendly documentation of recommended treatment plans

AI support of these core workflows improves team productivity and enhances the patient experience.

The benefits of AI have far-reaching impacts on preventive dental care. Your ability to stay ahead of the curve on behalf of your patients supports the trust and loyalty they place in you.

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