Applications and challenges of implementing artificial intelligence in orthodontics: A primer for orthodontists

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence based systems are exerting tremendous influence in the way we practice and render care to our patients. Improvements in computing capacities, decreasing costs of computing, availability of data from a wide range of sources, and societal push towards embracing innovations have changed the fundamental landscape of healthcare. Like in all specialties, Orthodontics has witnessed a burgeoning interest in research in the artificial intelligence realm. We undertook this narrative review to examine some of the contemporaneous issues that our specialty is facing with regards to implementing artificial intelligence based systems in our research and clinical practice. We present a high level overview of some common applications of artificial intelligence based systems in the field of Orthodontics and challenges in interpreting the models and implementing them in everyday clinical practice.