A New Perspective on Developments in Orthodontics: Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The rapidly increasing advances in technological developments, the importance of economic gains, and the need to carry out business processes in a shorter and more efficient manners increased the demand for digital systems in order to enable the rapid collection and analysis of large amounts of data. In this respect, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged, and played an important role in the digitalization of societies. Recently, AI applications have become popular in dentistry, which are also evident in orthodontics to provide guidance in diagnosis, treatment planning, and/or prediction of prognosis. There are large standardized data sets for patient follow-ups in orthodontics, which pose great potential for the application of AI due to their longitudinal and multimodal dataset structures. Therefore, the aim of this review was to give a general definition of artificial intelligence and provide a perspective on orthodontic diagnosis, treatment planning and ethical limitations.