4 Topic Commentaries

Assessing the Role of Large Language Models in Dental Education: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Usage, Attitudes, and Integration at a U.S. Dental Institution

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  Suvendra Vijayan, MS, MPH, BDS

  Assistant Professor; Director of 3D Printing and Advanced Technologies

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  University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine

  Today’s dental education must cover all of the advances that are coming down the road. We need to train the students to be ready.

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  Sanjay M. Mallya, B.D.S., M.D.S., Ph.D.

  Professor and Chair, Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology

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  UCLA School of Dentistry

  Students see a limited patient pool over the course of their training, whereas the AI system can expose them to a wide range of images they can interact with in a one-on-one experience,

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  Kumar C. Shah, B.D.S., M.S., M.B.A., F.A.C.P., F.A.P.

  Professor of Clinical Dentistry; Residency Program Director for Advanced Prosthodontics

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  UCLA School of Dentistry

  We had four different faculty looking at the same set of radiographs individually and with the assistance of AI, and we found that when the faculty used the AI as an aid, they were a lot more consistent among themselves,

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  Carrie Wells, Ed.D.

  Instructional Designer III, Office of Academic Affairs

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  University of Florida College of Dentistry

  AI can be a great debate partner,

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