Dentistry - Dental Research Program in Service of Health: Science and Artificial Intelligence in Service of Health (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798393671068)

This book challenges the way we think about dentistry - and how we think about thinking itself. At its core, it presents a structured model for clinical decision-making that draws from dentistry, decision theory, and artificial intelligence. But it does more than that: it asks what it really means to make a "good" decision in a medical context, and what kind of system - social, technical, economic - supports or distorts those decisions

Rather than listing treatments or summarizing studies, this book takes a step back and asks: How are treatment decisions actually made - and how can we improve that process structurally?

The approach is rooted in real-world dental practice, but its implications are much broader. The author proposes a conceptual framework that separates diagnosis, decision logic, and communication - allowing for more transparency, reproducibility, and patient-centered care. Along the way, it shows how AI is not merely a tool, but a mirror: it reflects the implicit structures in our knowledge and workflows, and gives us the opportunity to make them visible and consciously designable.

• Clinical decision-making as a structured process

• Limitations of intuition and experience in dental planning

• The role of AI as a socio-technical-economic system

• Separation of knowledge, logic, and communication

• Why statistical reasoning (e.g., probabilities, confidence intervals) alone is insufficient

• How human expertise and intelligent systems can complement each other

Written for dental professionals, researchers, and forward-thinking practitioners, this book offers a new lens on dental decision-making - and an invitation to rethink the foundations of medical logic in the 21st century

More than a dental book
A new theory of how we make medical decisions