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- Dentistry uniquely integrates both human skills and mechanical technologies, highlighting the potential for utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) in the field, making it essential to assess awareness and attitudes toward AI among dental professionals.
- A scoping review analyzed data from 1,430 studies, ultimately focusing on 21 that included 7,688 participants, revealing an average awareness of 50.31%, with the highest awareness in dentists (67.16%) and the lowest in dental students (42.58%).
- The findings indicate a gap between the rising importance of AI and its current low utilization in dentistry, especially among dental students, suggesting the need for integrating AI education into dental school curricula.
Article Abstract
Background: Dentistry is one of the unique specialties that deals with both humans and machines. This fact illustrates the strong potential for artificial intelligence (AI) implementation in dentistry, which makes awareness and attitude toward AI an important indicator for the future of this technology in the field. Hence, this scoping review aimed to report the status of awareness and attitude toward AI in dentistry.
Methodology: To ensure the quality and transparency of the present review, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) flow chart is reported. Four databases were searched for related topics (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE), Google Scholar, and Scopus); 1,430 studies were identified, and after screening and filtering, 21 cross-sectional studies were included.
Results: Twenty-one cross-sectional studies were included and yielded 7,688 participants. With an average level of 50.31% among all the studies that reported awareness (18 studies). Four subgroups' average levels of awareness toward AI in dentistry were reported: 67.16% among dentists, 42.58% among dental students, 45.56% for studies conducted on both dentists and dental students, and 69.53% for studies reporting awareness of AI in oral radiology. Regarding attitude, out of 13 studies, an average level of 44.13% felt threatened or thought AI would replace them.
Conclusion: The average level of awareness is in accordance with the attitude toward AI in dentistry. The low levels of awareness are important indicators of the gap formed between the inevitable application of AI and the lack of utilization in the dental field. AI implementation in dental schools' curricula is required since the lowest reported level among subgroups was among dental students.
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