For a century the radiograph told us almost everything about a tooth - and quietly kept one secret. Pressing a three-dimensional root system flat onto a single plane, it overlapped canals, hid the ones tucked directly behind others, and turned a fused, ribbon-like root into...
The intraoral scanner records the mouth as it looks - a flawless colour surface, and nothing beneath it. The radiograph records the mouth as light passes through it - the roots, the bone, the hidden lesion - and almost nothing of the surface. Each is...
The most revealing decision a clinician makes about a radiograph is often whether to take it at all. The first ADA and AAOMR patient-selection recommendations in more than a decade - and the first to address cone-beam CT - reframe imaging not as a schedule...
A dental radiograph is framed for your teeth, but the exposure does not stop at the enamel. In the same grey field sit the sinuses, the jaw, the airway, the soft tissues of the neck - and now and then, something no one was looking...
On a medical CT, the number in a voxel is a promise: water reads zero, cortical bone reads a thousand, and the scale means the same thing tomorrow as today. On a cone-beam scan, the same-looking number keeps no such promise - and mistaking one...
A CBCT scan arrives as a fog of grey voxels. Segmentation is the act of naming them - drawing the boundary between a tooth and the bone that holds it, between the nerve canal and the space around it. Here is what the machine actually...
A single vendor recently tallied two decades of dental-imaging patents - hundreds of filings, a couple hundred granted. Read as more than a press release, it is a map of how the dental image was engineered, invention by patient invention....
A CBCT scan is a quarter-million slices of latent information. Diagnocat turns that volume into a navigable 3D reading of 65+ conditions - but only after the DICOM leaves the operatory for the cloud. The findings are the art; the path is the plumbing....
For years, dental AI pointed: a ring here, a shaded region there. A new generation of vision-language models does something stranger and more human - it describes the radiograph in sentences. The portrait of the mouth is learning to narrate itself....
Pearl's Second Opinion is the most-cleared name in dental AI - intraoral, panoramic, and now CBCT. The detections are the spectacle; the plumbing that carries the image out of the operatory and back is the part that actually decides who can use it....