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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Artificial Intelligence in Orthodontic Smart Application for Treatment Coaching and Its Impact on Clinical Performance of Patients Monitored with AI-TeleHealth System.

Andrej Thurzo, Veronika Kurilová, Ivan Varga

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrej ThurzoDepartment of Stomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava, 81250 Bratislava, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0002-7810-5721
Veronika KurilováFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, 81219 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Ivan VargaInstitute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava, 81372 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Comenius University Bratislava · SKSlovak University of Technology in Bratislava · SK

Funding

KEGA grant agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Sport of the Slovak Republic Grant No. 081UK-4/2021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTreatment of malocclusion with clear removable appliances like Invisalign PURPOSE: To evaluate the impact of computerized personalized decision algorithms responding to observed and anticipated patient behavior implemented as an update of an existing clinical orthodontic application (app). MATERIALS AND

methodsVariables such as (1) patient app interaction, (2) patient app discipline and (3) clinical aligner tracking evaluated by artificial intelligence system (AI) system-Dental monitoring

resultsAll variables showed significant improvement after the update except for the manifestation of clinical non-tracking in men, evaluated by artificial intelligence from video scans.

conclusionsImplementation of application update including computerized decision processes can significantly enhance clinical performance of existing health care applications and improve patients' compliance. Using the algorithm with decision tree architecture could create a baseline for further machine learning optimization.

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AIbehavior change techniquesclear alignerscomputerized learningdecision tree algorithmorthodontic treatmentsmart applicationtelemedicine

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PMID34946421
PMCPMC8701246
OpenAlexW4200262909

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