Cited by 43Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationOrthodontics and Dentofacial OrthopedicsDental Research and COVID-19

The New Role of the Dental Assistant and Nurse in the Age of Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Telehealth Orthodontic Care with Dental Monitoring: Preliminary Report

Open access
Surovková, Jana, Haluzová, Sára, Strunga, Martin, Urban, Renáta, Lifková, Michaela, Thurzo, Andrej·2023·Applied Sciences

Abstract

This paper explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the role of dental assistants and nurses in orthodontic practices, as there is a gap in understanding the currently evolving impact on orthodontic treatment workflows. The introduction of AI-language models such as ChatGPT 4 is changing patient-office communication and transforming the role of orthodontic nurses. Teledentistry is now heavily reliant on AI implementation in orthodontics. This paper presents the proof of a novel concept: an AI-powered orthodontic workflow that provides new responsibilities for an orthodontic nurse. It also provides a report of an assessment of such a workflow in an orthodontic practice that uses an AI solution called Dental Monitoring over a period of three years. The paper evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of daily automated assessments of orthodontic treatment progress, the impact of AI on personalized care, and the new role of a dental assistant. The paper concludes that AI will improve dental practice through more precise and personalized treatment, bringing new roles and responsibilities for trained medical professionals but raising new ethical and legal issues for dental practices.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.3390/app13085212

Cites

57 of 57 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Surovková, J., Haluzová, S., Strunga, M., Urban, R., Lifková, M., & Thurzo, A.
Affiliations
Comenius University Bratislava (SK)
Corresponding author
  • Surovková, Jana
  • Thurzo, Andrej
Venue
Applied Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2023-04-21
Volume
13
Issue
8
Pages
5212
ISSN
2076-3417 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4366828769
Cited by
43
References
57
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 3
FWCI
1.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Applied Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Slovak Grant Agency for Science (KEGA Thurzo) (054UK-4/2023, APVV-22-0381)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences › Dentistry › Orthodontics › Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
  • Health Sciences › Dentistry › General Dentistry › Dental Research and COVID-19
Keywords
artificial intelligence in dentistry, orthodontic treatment, telemedicine, dental assistants, ChatGPT, teledentistry, individualized care, AI workflows, legal and ethical issues, dental practice

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review