DENTAL DECISION LIBRARY

UNDERSTAND THE JOURNEY
FROM X-RAY TO TREATMENT

Explore clear, evidence-led guides to treatments, dental imaging, and AI-supported pre-assessment.

Treatments

Step-by-step guides to common dental procedures: what happens, recovery and the questions to ask.

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Tooth Extraction

What it is, how it works & when you need it

  • 6 min read
  • Duration: 20–40 minutes (most simple extractions)
  • Anaesthesia: Local

Root Canal Treatment

What it is, how it works & when you need it

  • 5 min read
  • Duration: 45–90 minutes, sometimes two visits
  • Anaesthesia: Local

Dental AI

How AI reads dental images, where it helps, where it falls short and why a dentist stays in charge.

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Dental AI

How Does AI Work in Dentistry?

A plain-language guide to how dental AI learns from images, what it produces, where it falls short and why a dentist stays responsible.

  • 6 min read
  • For: Patients & professionals
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A dentist's hand and a digital support hand working together around a tooth model

Dental AI

Will AI Replace the Dentist?

Why dental AI is built as decision support, what human oversight means in practice, and where the limits and responsibilities lie.

  • 5 min read
  • For: Patients & professionals
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X-rays & Imaging

Panoramic, bitewing, periapical and CBCT images: what each one shows and what it cannot.

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X-rays & Imaging

What Is AI-Assisted Dental X-ray Analysis?

What software actually marks on a dental X-ray, what overlays and confidence scores mean, why false positives and negatives happen, and where dentist review fits in.

  • 5 min read
  • For: Patients & professionals
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X-rays & Imaging

What Can — and Can't — a Panoramic Dental X-ray Show?

A panoramic X-ray gives one wide view of both jaws. Here is what it is good at, what it can miss, and why your dentist may still need an examination or another image.

  • 6 min read
  • For: Patients
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Patient Guides

Practical help before a dental visit: preparing images, reading a report and choosing a dentist.

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Digital pre-assessment flow from image upload to dentist verification

Patient Guides

What Is a Digital Dental Pre-assessment?

What happens before, during and after an online dental pre-assessment — and what it can and cannot tell you before you see a dentist.

  • 5 min read
  • For: Patients
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Seven quality-check indicators surrounding a panoramic dental image

Patient Guides

7 Quality Checks Before Uploading Your Dental X-ray

A short checklist to make sure the X-ray you share online is complete, sharp and the right file — and that you only share what you mean to.

  • 6 min read
  • For: Patients
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Stylized dental report with observations, status indicators, and clinician review

Patient Guides

How to Read an AI-Assisted Dental Report

Tooth numbers, possible findings, confidence, priority and review status — what each part of an AI-assisted dental report means, and what to ask next.

  • 6 min read
  • For: Patients
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