Mumbai: Painful multiple visits to the dentist may be passe. Dental students will now learn digital dentistry and digital implantology that will allow them to extract a tooth, place an implant and a tooth, all in a span of a few hours in one sitting.Indian Dental Association (IDA) has asked dentists to adopt newer technologies in patient care and students from several colleges will attend these sessions so that they are acquainted with latest dental technologies in AI and digital dentistry.“Digital dentistry is the future. The helplessness, inconvenience and the punishing multiple visits that dental treatments were associated with will be all gone. Now patients can have a tooth or multiple teeth extracted, implants screwed into their bone and teeth made using 3D printing, placed on the implant, all in one sitting,” said Dr Himanshu Mehta, immediate past president of Indian Society of Oral Implantologists.India performs many dental implant procedures a year, with numbers rising steadily. Maharashtra leads in dental implants due to advanced dental infrastructure and higher number of practising specialists.Dental curriculum is yet to include these changes. “Goal of digital dentistry is to improve efficiency and precision of dental procedures while providing predictable outcomes,” said Dr Deepak Muchhala, treasurer of IDA.Digital Dentistry Society – International and Indian Dental Association that are holding the International Digital Dentistry Congress on June 8-9 in the city will explore the possibilities of digital dentistry, and how dental technologies or devices with digital or computer-controlled components can be incorporated into dental treatments.“Use of AI and robotics is also big now in dentistry. Robots will assist in performing precise surgical procedures, improve accuracy, thus reduce recovery time. They will be used for automated manufacture of dental prosthetics. And AI will enhance diagnostics via better interpretation of radiographs and 3D scans, predict treatment outcomes, and personalise patient care…” said Dr Ashok Dhoble, IDA’s secretary general.
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