Most dental imaging pictures the hard tissues. Sialography pictures something stranger — the branching, fluid-filled ductal tree of a salivary gland, mapped by letting contrast or saliva itself flow through it. A look at conventional, MR, and ultrasound sialography, and why a century-old technique still...
A detection model will read an underexposed, cone-cut, motion-blurred bitewing without hesitation and hand you a confident, tidy result. That composure is the danger. Everything AI concludes about a radiograph is downstream of how well the image was made - and the machine cannot see...
An AI can mark a dark spot on a bitewing in half a second. Calling that spot a lesion, deciding whether to treat it, and putting your name to the decision are three separate acts the software is not licensed to perform. The report is...