Behind every AI that reads a panoramic radiograph stands a quieter labor: the pixel-by-pixel hand that traced each tooth. A new open dataset reminds us that annotation is its own imaging craft....
The intraoral scanner began life as a way to replace the impression tray. A wave of AI integration — from Medit and Overjet’s AuraVue to a new generation of scanners — is quietly turning it into a diagnostic instrument, and a new kind of portrait....
A flawed radiograph discovered at read-out is a retake that rarely happens. Software that grades technical quality while the sensor is still in the mouth changes the economics of getting it right the first time....