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Artificial Intelligence and Digital Impressions: The Positives and the Pitfalls

Australian Dental Journal · Andrew Keeling · 2026-08-31

Digital impression systems increasingly use AI to enhance scan quality through artefact removal and data acquisition, but the technology risks silently modifying or inferring scan geometry in low-confidence areas, potentially creating anatomically plausible but inaccurate records of patient anatomy.

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