Empowered Patient Podcast Dental AI Delivers Comprehensive Diagnosis and Treatment Plans with Wardah Inam Overjet
Wardah Inam is the CEO of Overjet, which uses AI to analyze dental X-rays to help dentists provide more comprehensive and objective diagnoses and treatment recommendations for patients. The Overjet platform can quantify dental disease progression and provide visualizations to help patients better understand their oral health. The use of AI in dentistry can improve patient outcomes, practice workflows, and the ability of dentists to communicate with patients about personalized data-driven care.
Wardah explains, "One of our main challenges is that the dentist and the patients speak different languages when talking to each other. For example, a dentist licenses dental X-rays to communicate. Patients don't read X-rays, so they do not understand what the dentist says. So, for example, they might say, Hey, I see a radiolucency on tooth number four. The patient doesn't know what tooth number four is, and they don't know what atypical radiolucency is. And then they're squinting and trying to see what the dentist sees. And if you're not trained in reading dental X-rays, you don't see much. You see a lot of gray, white, and black, which causes confusion and lack of acceptance around the treatment and, in the end, what patients think. If it doesn't hurt, I don't need the treatment."
"Overjet analyzes the dental data and identifies disease similarly how a dentist would, but we quantify the disease as well. So, for example, rather than just saying that there is bone loss, we'll measure the bone levels and say there are four millimeters of bone loss. And that helps look at what this state is. But also, you can start to say, how has it progressed since the last time you came and has there been a more longitudinal progression of disease as well?"
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