Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.

Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.

  • @SomeGuy69English
    3•2 months ago

    I get that it’s positive to serve multiple patients in the same time, but I don’t care so much about the time, as that it’s done properly.

    Also obligatory: “beep boop, done with filling, proceeding with brain lobotomy”

    I wonder how they get the correct data for the robot to work with. It would require AI checking xrays I suppose. That seams to be quite a bit away still. But testing will show if it’s better than a human dentist. Maybe it could use smaller instruments and cut away less healthy tooth, etc.

    • HubertManne
      3•2 months ago

      The system, built by Boston company Perceptive, uses a hand-held 3D volumetric scanner, which builds a detailed 3D model of the mouth, including the teeth, gums and even nerves under the tooth surface, using optical coherence tomography, or OCT…This cuts harmful X-Ray radiation out of the process, as OCT uses nothing more than light beams to build its volumetric models, which come out at high resolution, with cavities automatically detected at an accuracy rate around 90%.

      • @SomeGuy69English
        1•2 months ago

        Sounds amazing. Thanks