A bitewing is a study in shadow, and shadow is exactly what the eye reads unreliably. Here is how a neural network learns to see the interproximal lesion and measure the bone crest - and why a confident overlay is only ever as good as...
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....
We are trained to fear the dose. We are rarely trained to fear the missed diagnosis. A cone-beam scan is a decision between two risks, not one - and the picture that goes unmade has a cost of its own....
The bitewing is the most familiar image in dentistry — so familiar it's easy to stop really looking at it. But a bitewing is a made object, shaped by angle and geometry, and it shows you a curated version of the truth. Learning what it...
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....